Director, Tax Platform Systems, Tax Services

Amazon’s Tax Services calculates sales taxes and creates tax invoices for Amazon businesses including digital goods, physical stores, retail, advertising and third-party sales. Amazon already operates beyond the scope of any existing tax calculation system in the world. Amazon’s continued growth and expansion to every country and line of business depends on the flexibility of its tax software to rapidly handle any new tax regulation that legislators can conceive and guarantee that it is always calculating sales taxes correctly. We also own the lifecycle for tax exemption, and we own workflows and services for the validation of tax registration numbers that governments assign to sellers, businesses and vendors.
Amazon’s global retail business depends on our systems, and if our systems are not up and running, the company stops. We balance keeping our systems fast, scalable and performant while rapidly delivering great features for Amazon customers and businesses, and for our internal legal, finance and accounting groups. In short, we get to own and innovate on a critical customer experience while also supporting nearly every other business at the company; the best of both worlds!
Key job responsibilities
This role will be responsible for the development and implementation of the organization’s long-term vision for tax invoicing, invoice generation, tax exemption, tax validation, software validation and configuration management. This leader’s responsibilities will include owning all aspects of building and leading a world class engineering organization, technical strategy, roadmap prioritization, and team management. This is a highly visible position that will interact at all levels of the Amazon.com businesses.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Bangalore, KA, IND | Hyderabad, TS, IND
- 12+ years of technical leadership experience, including managing significant cross functional projects in mid-size or large companies and scaling engineering organizations
- Bachelor's or higher degree in Science or Engineering
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
- Excellent critical thinking and problem solving skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and find innovative solutions.
- This leader will have a strong reputation for hiring and developing the best talent.
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- A first-hand working knowledge of current development technologies, distributed systems and service oriented architecture.
- Familiarity with building large scale solutions across many integrated and distributed systems, with great availability, performance, and security.