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Remote Lead Systems Engineer jobs are in active demand across the U.S., with remote-first firms and distributed engineering teams hiring for roles in defense, aerospace, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise software. Employers hiring remotely right now include Sargent & Lundy, Eaton, and Wendy's. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Resp & Qualifications
PURPOSE:
CareFirst is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for ERP Financial Systems to provide technical leadership for the applications, integrations, and data that enable enterprise accounting and finance. The immediate mandate is dependable ownership and modernization of the current Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) financial landscape, including close-critical processes, upstream and downstream interfaces, reporting, controls, and production support.
The Lead will also prepare the organization for a future cloud ERP decision that may include Workday, Oracle Cloud ERP, or another solution. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who understands accounting operations, can improve a complex production environment, and can shape a platform-neutral modernization strategy.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Set architecture and engineering direction for Oracle EBS Financials, related extensions, integrations, data, reporting, security, environments, and observability.
- Lead solution design and engineering reviews across GL, AP, AR, FA, CM, SLA, purchasing-related accounting, banking, tax, expense, reporting, and close processes.
- Define reusable standards for APIs, middleware, batch processing, data transformation, reconciliation, monitoring, testing, deployment, and documentation.
- Guide engineers and partners through complex delivery, performance tuning, critical incidents, releases, and technical-debt reduction.
Service Ownership, Controls & Partnership
- Own technical health, reliability, supportability, risk, controls, and lifecycle planning for the financial technology portfolio.
- Lead response to close-critical and high-severity production issues, ensuring root-cause analysis and preventive improvements.
- Partner with Accounting, Finance, Treasury, Procurement, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Audit, Infrastructure, vendors, and product leadership on roadmap and delivery priorities.
- Strengthen reconciliation, traceability, segregation of duties, access controls, audit evidence, and operational readiness.
Future-State Strategy
- Create a fact-based current-state architecture and modernization backlog covering configurations, customizations, integrations, data, reports, controls, and close dependencies.
- Lead technical evaluation and fit-gap work for Workday Financial Management, Oracle Cloud ERP, or other options, including data, integration, reporting, controls, and implementation readiness.
- Develop transition principles for coexistence, data conversion, integration rationalization, testing, cutover, financial reconciliation, and service continuity.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:
Position does not have direct reports but is expected to assist in guiding and mentoring less experienced staff. May lead a team of matrixed resources.
Education Level: Bachelors degree in information technology, Computer Science, Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field OR in lieu of a bachelors degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience in addition to the required work experience.
Experience: 10+ years of experience in financial systems, enterprise applications, software engineering, or ERP integration, including 3+ years providing technical leadership for complex solutions or teams.
Required Qualifications:
- Deep technical experience with Oracle EBS Financials and expert functional understanding of accounting processes, including GL, AP, subledger accounting, and period close.
- Proven leadership across SQL/PLSQL, interfaces, APIs, middleware, data conversion, reporting, security, testing, releases, and production operations.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with finance executives, controllers, accountants, auditors, architects, and engineers and convert complex needs into an executable roadmap.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience spanning Oracle EBS and a cloud ERP such as Workday Financial Management or Oracle Cloud ERP.
- Experience with Boomi, MuleSoft, Oracle Integration Cloud, Accounting Center, data conversion, enterprise reporting, or finance transformation programs.
- Experience in healthcare, insurance, or another regulated industry; architecture, CPA-domain, SAFe, or Agile credentials are a plus.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability to evaluate existing systems and propose scalable, supportable solutions.
- Ability to translate between business processes, functional requirements, data, integrations, and technical design.
- Experience integrating complex enterprise systems using REST/SOAP APIs, XML/JSON, SFTP, middleware, and batch or event-driven patterns.
- Knowledge and understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC), Agile delivery, release management, CI/CD, testing, and code-quality practices.
- Working knowledge of cloud technologies such as AWS or Azure and database technologies such as SQL and Oracle.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, documentation, stakeholder-management, and customer-service skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, meet established deadlines, and provide effective service to internal and external customers.
- Familiarity with security, segregation of duties, audit controls, and data governance in a regulated environment.
- Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence. Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.
Salary Range: $115,128 - $228,657
Salary Range Disclaimer
The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the work is being performed. This compensation range is specific and considers factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate's work experience, education/training, internal peer equity, and market and business consideration. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at the top of the range, as compensation decisions depend on each case's facts and circumstances, including but not limited to experience, internal equity, and location. In addition to your compensation, CareFirst offers a comprehensive benefits package, various incentive programs/plans, and 401k contribution programs/plans (all benefits/incentives are subject to eligibility requirements).
Department
Corporate Financial Systems
Equal Employment Opportunity
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
Federal Disc/Physical Demand
Note: The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes him/her ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The associate is primarily seated while performing the duties of the position. Occasional walking or standing is required. The hands are regularly used to write, type, key and handle or feel small controls and objects. The associate must frequently talk and hear. Weights up to 25 pounds are occasionally lifted.
Sponsorship in US
Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without Sponsorship
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Resp & Qualifications
PURPOSE:
CareFirst is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for ERP Financial Systems to provide technical leadership for the applications, integrations, and data that enable enterprise accounting and finance. The immediate mandate is dependable ownership and modernization of the current Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) financial landscape, including close-critical processes, upstream and downstream interfaces, reporting, controls, and production support.
The Lead will also prepare the organization for a future cloud ERP decision that may include Workday, Oracle Cloud ERP, or another solution. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who understands accounting operations, can improve a complex production environment, and can shape a platform-neutral modernization strategy.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Set architecture and engineering direction for Oracle EBS Financials, related extensions, integrations, data, reporting, security, environments, and observability.
- Lead solution design and engineering reviews across GL, AP, AR, FA, CM, SLA, purchasing-related accounting, banking, tax, expense, reporting, and close processes.
- Define reusable standards for APIs, middleware, batch processing, data transformation, reconciliation, monitoring, testing, deployment, and documentation.
- Guide engineers and partners through complex delivery, performance tuning, critical incidents, releases, and technical-debt reduction.
Service Ownership, Controls & Partnership
- Own technical health, reliability, supportability, risk, controls, and lifecycle planning for the financial technology portfolio.
- Lead response to close-critical and high-severity production issues, ensuring root-cause analysis and preventive improvements.
- Partner with Accounting, Finance, Treasury, Procurement, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Audit, Infrastructure, vendors, and product leadership on roadmap and delivery priorities.
- Strengthen reconciliation, traceability, segregation of duties, access controls, audit evidence, and operational readiness.
Future-State Strategy
- Create a fact-based current-state architecture and modernization backlog covering configurations, customizations, integrations, data, reports, controls, and close dependencies.
- Lead technical evaluation and fit-gap work for Workday Financial Management, Oracle Cloud ERP, or other options, including data, integration, reporting, controls, and implementation readiness.
- Develop transition principles for coexistence, data conversion, integration rationalization, testing, cutover, financial reconciliation, and service continuity.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:
Position does not have direct reports but is expected to assist in guiding and mentoring less experienced staff. May lead a team of matrixed resources.
Education Level: Bachelors degree in information technology, Computer Science, Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field OR in lieu of a bachelors degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience in addition to the required work experience.
Experience: 10+ years of experience in financial systems, enterprise applications, software engineering, or ERP integration, including 3+ years providing technical leadership for complex solutions or teams.
Required Qualifications:
- Deep technical experience with Oracle EBS Financials and expert functional understanding of accounting processes, including GL, AP, subledger accounting, and period close.
- Proven leadership across SQL/PLSQL, interfaces, APIs, middleware, data conversion, reporting, security, testing, releases, and production operations.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with finance executives, controllers, accountants, auditors, architects, and engineers and convert complex needs into an executable roadmap.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience spanning Oracle EBS and a cloud ERP such as Workday Financial Management or Oracle Cloud ERP.
- Experience with Boomi, MuleSoft, Oracle Integration Cloud, Accounting Center, data conversion, enterprise reporting, or finance transformation programs.
- Experience in healthcare, insurance, or another regulated industry; architecture, CPA-domain, SAFe, or Agile credentials are a plus.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability to evaluate existing systems and propose scalable, supportable solutions.
- Ability to translate between business processes, functional requirements, data, integrations, and technical design.
- Experience integrating complex enterprise systems using REST/SOAP APIs, XML/JSON, SFTP, middleware, and batch or event-driven patterns.
- Knowledge and understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC), Agile delivery, release management, CI/CD, testing, and code-quality practices.
- Working knowledge of cloud technologies such as AWS or Azure and database technologies such as SQL and Oracle.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, documentation, stakeholder-management, and customer-service skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, meet established deadlines, and provide effective service to internal and external customers.
- Familiarity with security, segregation of duties, audit controls, and data governance in a regulated environment.
- Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence. Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.
Salary Range: $115,128 - $228,657
Salary Range Disclaimer
The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the work is being performed. This compensation range is specific and considers factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate's work experience, education/training, internal peer equity, and market and business consideration. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at the top of the range, as compensation decisions depend on each case's facts and circumstances, including but not limited to experience, internal equity, and location. In addition to your compensation, CareFirst offers a comprehensive benefits package, various incentive programs/plans, and 401k contribution programs/plans (all benefits/incentives are subject to eligibility requirements).
Department
Corporate Financial Systems
Equal Employment Opportunity
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
Federal Disc/Physical Demand
Note: The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes him/her ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The associate is primarily seated while performing the duties of the position. Occasional walking or standing is required. The hands are regularly used to write, type, key and handle or feel small controls and objects. The associate must frequently talk and hear. Weights up to 25 pounds are occasionally lifted.
Sponsorship in US
Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without Sponsorship
#LI-MK1
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Who's Hiring
- Sargent & Lundy19
- Eaton4
- Wendy's2
- Muon Space2
- The Foth Companies2
Top Industries Hiring
- Manufacturing
- Technology & Software
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote lead systems engineer jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in systems engineering, electrical engineering, or a closely related field
- Experience developing system requirements and leading requirements flow-down to subsystems
- Proficiency with MBSE tools such as Cameo Systems Modeler, Rhapsody, or equivalent
- Familiarity with systems engineering frameworks including SE-CMM, INCOSE handbook, or MIL-STD-499
- Active DoD Secret or Top Secret security clearance for defense and government contractor roles
- Experience with verification and validation planning, test execution, and configuration management
Tips for Your Remote Lead Systems Engineer Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote lead systems engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly without sorting through location-filtered results on general boards.
Show async leadership in your portfolio
Remote employers want proof you can lead without a whiteboard. Publish architecture decision records, system design write-ups, or design review summaries that show you drive technical direction through written documentation, not just in-person meetings.
Highlight cross-functional coordination experience
Lead systems engineers working remotely spend a large portion of their time aligning requirements across software, hardware, and program management. Calling out specific integration milestones you owned, or requirements traces you maintained across distributed teams, signals readiness for remote leadership.
Prepare for systems design interviews over video
Remote hiring panels typically use collaborative diagramming tools like Miro or Lucidchart during technical screens. Practice walking through system decomposition and interface definitions on a shared canvas so your design process reads clearly to interviewers who can't see your body language.
Remote Lead Systems Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote lead systems engineer job?
Target companies that run distributed engineering teams, particularly in defense contracting, cloud platforms, and enterprise software, because those organizations have built the async workflows that make remote systems leadership practical. Remote employers screen for strong written communication, documented system design decisions, and the ability to drive technical direction without in-person oversight. Candidates who demonstrate experience leading architecture reviews asynchronously and mentoring engineers across time zones consistently stand out.
Which companies hire remote lead systems engineers?
Remote lead systems engineer roles are posted by Sargent & Lundy, Eaton, and Wendy's and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. The employers hiring most consistently include remote-first technology firms, defense and aerospace primes with distributed program teams, and large-scale cloud and enterprise software organizations.
Can you get a remote lead systems engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote lead roles are harder to land without experience because employers expect you to operate independently and guide technical decisions without daily supervision. Entry paths that work include contributing to open-source systems projects, building a public portfolio of architecture diagrams and design documents, and targeting smaller remote-first companies or startups where the lead role is more hands-on and less formally tiered.
Do you need a degree for remote lead systems engineer jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers weigh demonstrated systems engineering competence, delivered projects, and verifiable technical outcomes more heavily than a specific credential. That said, roles in defense, aerospace, and regulated industries often list a bachelor's in systems engineering, computer science, or a related field as a baseline, so having one removes a screening barrier in those sectors.
Which industries hire the most remote lead systems engineers?
The sectors hiring the most remote lead systems engineers are Manufacturing and Technology & Software, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Those industries rely on distributed program teams that need systems leadership capable of coordinating requirements, architecture, and integration work across multiple locations without an on-site presence.
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