Tax Data & Analytics Architect Director

Industry/Sector
Not Applicable
Specialism
Data, Analytics & AI
Management Level
Director
Job Description & Summary
A career within Data and Analytics services will provide you with the opportunity to help organisations uncover enterprise insights and drive business results using smarter data analytics. We focus on a collection of organisational technology capabilities, including business intelligence, data management, and data assurance that help our clients drive innovation, growth, and change within their organisations in order to keep up with the changing nature of customers and technology. We make impactful decisions by mixing mind and machine to leverage data, understand and navigate risk, and help our clients gain a competitive edge.
You'll focus on aligning client data strategies to their business strategy. You will assist clients in choosing a platform, defining their data needs and migrating them to a modern cloud data environment using cloud providers such as Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Snowflake, Databricks or Teradata.
To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
As a Director, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Support team to disrupt, improve and evolve ways of working when necessary.
• Arrange and sponsor appropriate assignments and experiences to help people realise their potential and support their long-term aspirations.
• Identify gaps in the market and spot opportunities to create value propositions.
• Look for opportunities to scale efficiencies and new ways of working across multiple projects and environments.
• Create an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
• I promote and encourage others to value difference when working in diverse teams.
• Drive and take ownership for developing connections that help deliver what is best for our people and stakeholders.
• Influence and facilitate the creation of long-term relationships which add value to the firm.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Job Requirements and Preferences:
Basic Qualifications:
Minimum Degree Required:
Bachelor Degree
Minimum Years of Experience:
12 year(s)
Preferred Qualifications:
Certification(s) Preferred:
Data, Analytics & AI certifications in either Azure, AWS & GCP. Tax certifications in the field of Direct, Indirect and Transfer pricing.
Preferred Knowledge/Skills:
Demonstrates thought leader-level abilities with, and/or a proven record of success directing efforts in the following areas:

• Leading conversations on Tax with controllers and heads of Tax in large enterprises including C suite.
• Translating Tax requirements for State, Federal, International, Sales, Direct, Indirect;
• Transferring pricing into data requirements and building data solutions;
• Understanding of commercial packaged Tax softwares;
• Understanding and experience with modern cloud data warehouse and engineering for one or more of the following cloud providers - Azure (Synapse, Dynamo, Cosmos, Azure ML, Power BI), AWS (Redshift, Sagemaker), GCP (BigQuery, Vertex, Cognitive Services), Snowflake, Tableau;
• Leading multiple engagements to design and develop modern data warehouse solutions using data modeling techniques such as file based, normalized or denormalized, star schemas, schema on read, Vault data model, and graphs for mixed workloads, such as OLTP, OLAP, streaming using any formats (structured, semi-structured, unstructured);
• Providing thought leadership and proven experience developing file and object-based storage solutions, such as Azure ADLS 2.0 or AWS S3, creating analytics and insights solutions using Redshift, Azure SQL Pools, Snowflake, PySpark dataframes and/or equivalent technologies;
• Designing and developing advanced analytics solutions, AI/ML models, and operationalizing based on ML Ops process;
• Understanding of cloud data solutions in the context of business applications, cost optimization, client's strategic needs and future growth goals as it relates to becoming a 'data driven' organization;
• Guiding the application of leading practices in supporting high availability, scalable, process and storage intensive solutions architectures to data integration/migration, analytics and insights, AI and ML requirements;
• Guiding and reviewing detailed functional and technical specification documentation related to cloud data warehouse solution;
• Leading data warehouse team and leads in creation of cloud data warehouse plans, roadmap, success metrics, and assessment of client's enterprise (on-premise and on-cloud) data systems;
• Demonstrating prior Big 4 or strong consulting experience in strategy through execution projects is a plus;
• Creating strong relationships with business stakeholders and ability to act as a trusted advisor to client leaders; and,
• Supporting business development efforts by participating in proposal development, sales pursuits, and client presentations.

Travel Requirements
Up to 80%
Job Posting End Date
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