Tax Solution Architect, Strategic Tax Planning

Saved job description

Amazon's Tax Planning & Restructures organization is seeking a Solutions Architect to join its technology enablement team. This is an embedded, forward-deployed builder role for someone who can deeply understand tax planning work and turn that understanding into practical technology solutions. This role will work closely with tax professionals to identify workflow pain points, design better processes, and build tools that improve speed, quality, visibility, and control. The ideal candidate has direct tax experience, strong technical instincts, and the ability to use modern development tools to move quickly from ambiguous business problems to working solutions.

Key job responsibilities

Own the end-to-end creation of automation solutions from discovery through design, build, deployment, testing, and adoption and maintenance, including:

- Designing UI/UX frontends and workflows

- Scripting business logic

- Provisioning AWS resources

- Setting up data pipelines and ETLs

- Running integration testing and UAT

- Monitoring usage and operational excellence metrics

Gain an inside-out understanding of tax planning workflows, dependencies, key inputs and the needs/challenges of tax planning professionals.

Train and mentor tax professionals on new tech tools and best practices.

Collaborate with FinTech, IT, and other technology partners on larger initiatives, translating Tax's needs into clear requirements and helping ensure delivered solutions fit tax planning workflows.

Help define the roadmap and technology landscape for the Tax Planning & Restructures organization.

Requirements: - 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

- 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience