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Role Overview: As a Lead Engineering Senior Manager, you will help shape and communicate a strategic vision for modern software engineering. You will provide hands-on leadership across multiple high-impact US Payroll products, ensuring our solutions are innovative, effective, and aligned with business goals. You will contribute to and execute a forward-looking technology roadmap, driving simplification, scalability, and efficiency. Leveraging your deep expertise in software engineering—including application and data integration, modern frameworks, and diverse technologies—you will guide teams in delivering robust, high-quality Payroll solutions. As a role model and mentor, you will foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and collaboration. Your ability to inspire and develop engineering talent, while partnering with cross-functional teams, will be essential to our ongoing success and the value we deliver to Deloitte's business.
Recruiting for this role ends on 6/26/2026.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Vision and Alignment: Contribute to defining, communicating, and continuously refining a compelling engineering vision that translates business objectives into actionable strategies. Ensure engineering teams are aligned and engaged, collaborating closely with product, experience, delivery, infrastructure, and security teams. Leverage technical artifacts and feedback loops to illustrate and evolve the vision. Set the payroll technology vision and multi-year strategy, aligning processes, platforms, and vendor solutions to enterprise business goals, supported by clearly defined KPIs and performance metrics.
Advocacy and Technology Roadmap: Champion the integrated engineering strategy and technology roadmap, ensuring organizational awareness of objectives, KPIs, maturity, and compliance. Promote a culture of reuse, quality, and speed to maximize outcomes. Actively engage and energize teams around the engineering vision and its alignment with business and technology goals. Define and execute the U.S. payroll technology roadmap, ensuring scalable architecture, stable and secure integrations, and robust reporting and analytics capabilities.
Craft Mastery and Objectives Realization: Drive achievement of engineering KPIs, including system performance, scalability, security, and maintainability. Contribute hands-on to design and code, mentor engineers, and resolve technical challenges. Inspire teams to adopt new technologies and best practices, fostering a passion for engineering excellence.
Capability Evolution and Development: Lead by example through thought leadership—speaking at conferences, publishing, R&D, or collaborating with academia. Cultivate a growth mindset and modern engineering behaviors across the team. Apply strong working knowledge of data replication and integration patterns (including BIB) to influence and validate scalable, compliant payroll technology designs. Plan and lead parallel payroll validation and reconciliation during implementations, upgrades, conversions, and major system or process changes.
Iterative Value Delivery: Embrace an iterative and incremental product development, favoring action, prioritizing rapid learning, and adaptation over extensive upfront planning. Apply leaning-forward approach and empirical methods to navigate complexity, ensuring each iteration delivers value and aligns with customer and business needs. Lead and support implementations of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP), including migrations from SAP ECC Payroll, ensuring business continuity, data integrity, and stakeholder confidence.
Customer-Centric Problem Solving: Maintain a relentless focus on solving the most critical customer challenges. Align technical solutions with business outcomes, minimize unnecessary complexity, and drive teams toward high performance through continuous learning and collaborative execution. Lead the transition from reactive issue resolution to proactive monitoring and control, strengthening operational discipline, improving efficiency, and ensuring strict adherence to payroll processing timelines.
Tech/Quality Risk Management: Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks, ensuring operational excellence and resilience. Provide end-to-end ownership of U.S. payroll technology support, including time processing, finance postings, benefits and third-party interfaces, off-cycle payroll runs, and all special payroll events (e.g., year-end, bonus processing).
Influential Communication: Influence, persuade, and drive decision-making processes. Communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms. Craft clear, structured arguments and technical trade-offs, supported by evidence. Act as the primary technology voice for payroll, partnering closely with HR, Payroll Operations, Finance, and IT stakeholders, and communicating complex technical concepts clearly to executive and business audiences.
Organizational Engagement and Collaboration: Engage stakeholders at all levels of the organization, from team members to middle management to executives. Build collaborative and constructive relationships, co-creating and driving momentum and value across multiple organizational levels. Build, manage, develop, and lead a high-performing leader-of-leaders technology organization supporting end-to-end U.S. payroll processing, ensuring accuracy, compliance, controls, and timeliness across all payroll cycles. Drive accountability, coaching, cross-functional collaboration, talent development, and succession planning within the team being led.
The team: US Deloitte Technology Product Engineering has modernized software and product delivery, creating a scalable, cost-effective model that focuses on value/outcomes that leverages a progressive and responsive talent structure. As Deloitte's primary internal development team, Product Engineering delivers innovative digital solutions to businesses, service lines, and internal operations with proven bottom-line results and outcomes. It helps power Deloitte's success. It is the engine that drives Deloitte, serving many of the world's largest, most respected companies. We develop and deploy cutting-edge internal and go-to-market solutions that help Deloitte operate effectively and lead in the market. Our reputation is built on a tradition of delivering with excellence.
Key Qualifications:
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline. An advanced degree (e.g., MS) is preferred but not required. Enterprise experience is the most relevant factor.
- 15+ years experience in SAP with significant part of that in driving Payroll implementations in ECC (or S/4).
- Proven record of setting the payroll vision and multi-year strategy, aligning processes, technology, and vendors to business goals, with clear KPIs.
- 10+ years of proven experience defining the payroll technology roadmap, ensuring scalable design, stable integrations, and robust reporting and analytics.
- Excellent software engineering and product architecture/design foundation with deep understanding of Business Context Diagrams (BCD), sequence/activity/state/ER/DFD diagrams, OOP/OOD, data structures, algorithms, code instrumentation, and messaging patterns (e.g., routing, transformation, construction, channel, endpoint, adapter, sequencing).
- Proven track record of strengthening the team by shifting to proactive monitoring of payroll solution, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, strictly following timelines and managing technology team that supports end-to-end US payroll processing and ensure accuracy, control, compliance, and timeliness.
- 8+ years of experience in SAP payroll configuration - wage types, Schema & rules, retro processing, and U.S.-specific rules (as applicable).
- Expert level process and technical knowledge of SAP ECC and SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) including, but not limited to, payroll and time schemas and rules, wage types, time processing, finance posting, benefits interfaces, off cycle runs, loans, garnishments, tax calculations, retroactive calculations, and all special events. (Year-end, bonus, etc.)
- Experience leading and participating in multiple SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central (ECP) implementations for large, complex customers.
- Proven track record of strong verbal and written communication skills and comfort with Executive interactions.
- Demonstrated experience with defining and driving engineering KPIs, implementing engineering maturity models, and driving continuous improvement.
- 3+ years of experience with AI/ML; experience with the latest GenAI models is preferred.
- Proven ability to drive adoption of modern engineering practices at scale, including cross-functional collaboration.
- Demonstrated experience aligning engineering initiatives with business and customer value, delivering measurable outcomes in agile environments.
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, with the ability to handle diverse situations, complex projects, and changing priorities, behaving with passion, empathy, and care.
- Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $124,600 to $255,900.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
Information for applicants with a need for accommodation: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/join-deloitte-assistance-for-disabled-applicants.html
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Lead Engineering Senior Manager - CL6
Role Overview: As a Lead Engineering Senior Manager, you will help shape and communicate a strategic vision for modern software engineering. You will provide hands-on leadership across multiple high-impact US Payroll products, ensuring our solutions are innovative, effective, and aligned with business goals. You will contribute to and execute a forward-looking technology roadmap, driving simplification, scalability, and efficiency. Leveraging your deep expertise in software engineering—including application and data integration, modern frameworks, and diverse technologies—you will guide teams in delivering robust, high-quality Payroll solutions. As a role model and mentor, you will foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and collaboration. Your ability to inspire and develop engineering talent, while partnering with cross-functional teams, will be essential to our ongoing success and the value we deliver to Deloitte's business.
Recruiting for this role ends on 6/26/2026.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Vision and Alignment: Contribute to defining, communicating, and continuously refining a compelling engineering vision that translates business objectives into actionable strategies. Ensure engineering teams are aligned and engaged, collaborating closely with product, experience, delivery, infrastructure, and security teams. Leverage technical artifacts and feedback loops to illustrate and evolve the vision. Set the payroll technology vision and multi-year strategy, aligning processes, platforms, and vendor solutions to enterprise business goals, supported by clearly defined KPIs and performance metrics.
Advocacy and Technology Roadmap: Champion the integrated engineering strategy and technology roadmap, ensuring organizational awareness of objectives, KPIs, maturity, and compliance. Promote a culture of reuse, quality, and speed to maximize outcomes. Actively engage and energize teams around the engineering vision and its alignment with business and technology goals. Define and execute the U.S. payroll technology roadmap, ensuring scalable architecture, stable and secure integrations, and robust reporting and analytics capabilities.
Craft Mastery and Objectives Realization: Drive achievement of engineering KPIs, including system performance, scalability, security, and maintainability. Contribute hands-on to design and code, mentor engineers, and resolve technical challenges. Inspire teams to adopt new technologies and best practices, fostering a passion for engineering excellence.
Capability Evolution and Development: Lead by example through thought leadership—speaking at conferences, publishing, R&D, or collaborating with academia. Cultivate a growth mindset and modern engineering behaviors across the team. Apply strong working knowledge of data replication and integration patterns (including BIB) to influence and validate scalable, compliant payroll technology designs. Plan and lead parallel payroll validation and reconciliation during implementations, upgrades, conversions, and major system or process changes.
Iterative Value Delivery: Embrace an iterative and incremental product development, favoring action, prioritizing rapid learning, and adaptation over extensive upfront planning. Apply leaning-forward approach and empirical methods to navigate complexity, ensuring each iteration delivers value and aligns with customer and business needs. Lead and support implementations of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP), including migrations from SAP ECC Payroll, ensuring business continuity, data integrity, and stakeholder confidence.
Customer-Centric Problem Solving: Maintain a relentless focus on solving the most critical customer challenges. Align technical solutions with business outcomes, minimize unnecessary complexity, and drive teams toward high performance through continuous learning and collaborative execution. Lead the transition from reactive issue resolution to proactive monitoring and control, strengthening operational discipline, improving efficiency, and ensuring strict adherence to payroll processing timelines.
Tech/Quality Risk Management: Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks, ensuring operational excellence and resilience. Provide end-to-end ownership of U.S. payroll technology support, including time processing, finance postings, benefits and third-party interfaces, off-cycle payroll runs, and all special payroll events (e.g., year-end, bonus processing).
Influential Communication: Influence, persuade, and drive decision-making processes. Communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms. Craft clear, structured arguments and technical trade-offs, supported by evidence. Act as the primary technology voice for payroll, partnering closely with HR, Payroll Operations, Finance, and IT stakeholders, and communicating complex technical concepts clearly to executive and business audiences.
Organizational Engagement and Collaboration: Engage stakeholders at all levels of the organization, from team members to middle management to executives. Build collaborative and constructive relationships, co-creating and driving momentum and value across multiple organizational levels. Build, manage, develop, and lead a high-performing leader-of-leaders technology organization supporting end-to-end U.S. payroll processing, ensuring accuracy, compliance, controls, and timeliness across all payroll cycles. Drive accountability, coaching, cross-functional collaboration, talent development, and succession planning within the team being led.
The team: US Deloitte Technology Product Engineering has modernized software and product delivery, creating a scalable, cost-effective model that focuses on value/outcomes that leverages a progressive and responsive talent structure. As Deloitte's primary internal development team, Product Engineering delivers innovative digital solutions to businesses, service lines, and internal operations with proven bottom-line results and outcomes. It helps power Deloitte's success. It is the engine that drives Deloitte, serving many of the world's largest, most respected companies. We develop and deploy cutting-edge internal and go-to-market solutions that help Deloitte operate effectively and lead in the market. Our reputation is built on a tradition of delivering with excellence.
Key Qualifications:
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline. An advanced degree (e.g., MS) is preferred but not required. Enterprise experience is the most relevant factor.
- 15+ years experience in SAP with significant part of that in driving Payroll implementations in ECC (or S/4).
- Proven record of setting the payroll vision and multi-year strategy, aligning processes, technology, and vendors to business goals, with clear KPIs.
- 10+ years of proven experience defining the payroll technology roadmap, ensuring scalable design, stable integrations, and robust reporting and analytics.
- Excellent software engineering and product architecture/design foundation with deep understanding of Business Context Diagrams (BCD), sequence/activity/state/ER/DFD diagrams, OOP/OOD, data structures, algorithms, code instrumentation, and messaging patterns (e.g., routing, transformation, construction, channel, endpoint, adapter, sequencing).
- Proven track record of strengthening the team by shifting to proactive monitoring of payroll solution, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, strictly following timelines and managing technology team that supports end-to-end US payroll processing and ensure accuracy, control, compliance, and timeliness.
- 8+ years of experience in SAP payroll configuration - wage types, Schema & rules, retro processing, and U.S.-specific rules (as applicable).
- Expert level process and technical knowledge of SAP ECC and SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) including, but not limited to, payroll and time schemas and rules, wage types, time processing, finance posting, benefits interfaces, off cycle runs, loans, garnishments, tax calculations, retroactive calculations, and all special events. (Year-end, bonus, etc.)
- Experience leading and participating in multiple SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central (ECP) implementations for large, complex customers.
- Proven track record of strong verbal and written communication skills and comfort with Executive interactions.
- Demonstrated experience with defining and driving engineering KPIs, implementing engineering maturity models, and driving continuous improvement.
- 3+ years of experience with AI/ML; experience with the latest GenAI models is preferred.
- Proven ability to drive adoption of modern engineering practices at scale, including cross-functional collaboration.
- Demonstrated experience aligning engineering initiatives with business and customer value, delivering measurable outcomes in agile environments.
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, with the ability to handle diverse situations, complex projects, and changing priorities, behaving with passion, empathy, and care.
- Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $124,600 to $255,900.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
Information for applicants with a need for accommodation: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/join-deloitte-assistance-for-disabled-applicants.html
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Which accounting companies sponsor visas in Puerto Rico?
Major sponsors include Popular Bank, FirstBank Puerto Rico, Banco Santander, and Oriental Bank for banking compliance roles. Large CPA firms like PwC, KPMG, and EY maintain Puerto Rico offices and sponsor for audit positions. Manufacturing companies in pharmaceuticals and medical devices, including Amgen and Baxter, sponsor accounting roles to support their operations under Puerto Rico's tax incentive programs.
How to find accounting visa sponsorship jobs in Puerto Rico?
Migrate Mate specializes in connecting international accounting professionals with Puerto Rico employers who sponsor work visas. The platform filters opportunities by location and visa sponsorship status, making it easier to identify companies actively hiring foreign nationals for controller, tax specialist, financial analyst, and audit positions across San Juan, Bayamón, and other major business centers.
Which visa types are most common for accounting roles in Puerto Rico?
H-1B visas dominate for specialty accounting positions requiring bachelor's degrees, particularly for roles in tax compliance, financial analysis, and audit work. TN visas serve Canadian and Mexican accountants with qualifying degrees. L-1 visas support intracompany transfers for multinational corporations with Puerto Rico subsidiaries, especially in pharmaceutical and financial services sectors operating under local tax incentives.
Which cities in Puerto Rico have the most accounting sponsorship jobs?
San Juan leads with its concentrated financial district housing major banks, insurance companies, and corporate headquarters. Bayamón follows with manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies requiring accounting support. Carolina attracts businesses due to proximity to Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport. Guaynabo hosts many professional services firms and regional offices of multinational corporations seeking accounting expertise.
What makes Puerto Rico unique for international accountants seeking sponsorship?
Puerto Rico's Acts 60 and 22 tax incentive programs have attracted numerous businesses relocating operations, creating demand for accounting professionals familiar with both U.S. federal and Puerto Rico tax codes. Bilingual capabilities in English and Spanish are highly valued. The territory's status means no additional work authorization needed beyond standard U.S. visa requirements, streamlining the sponsorship process.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored accounting jobs in Puerto Rico?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.
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