Senior US Tax Architect

Make A Difference For Those Who Make The World

It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of nearly 60,000 professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, CUB CADET, STANLEY and BLACK+DECKER

What You’ll Do
Interfaces with Business Relationship Managers, providing technical and functional expertise to provide vision, oversight and coordination across portfolio of technical solutions being developed in that domain. Act as strategic advisor for each Business Unit through close working relationships with business partners. Develops, maintains, and communicates processes and standard practices related to the high level design, development, and implementation of solutions across portfolio of projects and enhancements in the domain. Ensures solutions meet business needs along with architecturally significant functional and nonfunctional requirements. Works with the business to define technology roadmaps. Helps to ensure outside partners are educated on approved technical solutions and works with those partners to ensure requirements are met.


You’ll get to:

• Translate business domain understanding and context to technical capabilities for technical architects and development teams. ​
• Accountable for collaborating with business relationship managers and business stakeholders to understand business requirements, identifying solution gaps and available capabilities, and defining solutions to meet the business need.​
• Research the market and approve Make vs Buy options to meet business requirements​
• Document high level design of solutions​
• Support the determination of effort and skills required to implement solutions​
• Ensure work scope is maintained and solutions are implemented, managing approved Changes​
• Conducts application scan and risk review to validate privacy, security, and risk policies are met​
• Responsible for examining the current systems architecture and working with business and technical staff to recommend solutions that result in more effective systems​
• Give direction on how to leverage technology to solve a business problem​
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to shape EA guardrails, standards and patterns​
• Ensure alignment with Enterprise Architecture principles, guardrails, standards, patterns and frameworks. ​
• Guides outside partners to ensure SBD requirements are met
• Embed tax requirements into financial/business systems and processes while ensuring designs, configuration/code, testing, and documentation meets SBD-IT systems standards, policies and procedures.
• Contribute to Tax technology strategy and IT road mapping

Who You Are
You always strive to do a good job…but wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? You care about quality – at every level. You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. In fact, you embrace it.

Functional Skills​

• Business acumen
• Familiarity with SDLC methodologies (Waterfall and Agile / Scrum / Iterative Development)
• ITFS Project Methodology knowledge
• Ability to tie together solutions across systems
• Application domain knowledge
• Understanding of current and future technologies
• Oral & written communications
• Business case development
• Estimation of project scope/duration
• Ability to simplify & standardize complex concepts / processes
• Treasury and Banking knowledge
• Business process management & modeling
• Understanding of future / emerging technologies
• Tax knowledge including upstream processes such as OTC, Purchase (Direct and Indirect) and downstream impact on tax reporting
• Highly organized, capable of effectively managing competing priorities and delivering on business results​

Technical Skills​

• Vertex Sales and Use Tax (O series and Q series)
• Vertex Indirect Returns
• OneSource Sales and Use Tax
• Experience in implementing other tax technology solutions (e.g.,CorpTax, Avalara, Longview, SharePoint, RPA) is a plus
• SAP Finance and integration with SD and MM
• S/4 Hana and Central Finance background is a plus
• Proficient in MS Excel, MS PowerPoint​
• Deep understanding of application portfolio, IT strategy and roadmap, and business priorities​
• Security, privacy and risk mindset​
• High level understanding of Order to Cash process and impact on tax calculation and filing
• High level understanding of Procure to