Senior Director - Tax Technology

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Director, Tax Technology

Locations: Boston, MA (hybrid)

About the Role

SS&C is seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Senior Director, Tax Technology to lead the strategy, development, and execution of enterprise tax technology initiatives. In this highly visible leadership role, you will drive digital transformation across the tax function by designing, implementing, and optimizing innovative technology solutions that enhance operational efficiency, strengthen compliance, and support business growth. Partnering with senior leadership and cross-functional teams, you will shape the future of tax technology through automation, data-driven insights, and scalable solutions that address evolving business and regulatory needs. The ideal candidate combines deep tax domain knowledge, strong technical expertise, and strategic leadership capabilities with a demonstrated ability to translate complex business challenges into practical, technology-enabled solutions.

Why Join SS&C

SS&C combines proprietary technology with deep industry expertise to support complex financial and health care operations. Our teams design, implement, and operate solutions that help clients manage data, automate processes, and scale their businesses with confidence. You will work with industry experts, modern platforms, and evolving technologies, gaining exposure to real-world operational challenges and large-scale enterprise environments.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Lead Tax Technology Strategy: Develop and execute a comprehensive tax technology roadmap aligned with organizational priorities, business objectives, and evolving regulatory requirements.
• Drive Digital Transformation: Identify and implement opportunities to modernize tax operations through automation, system integration, advanced analytics, and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence.
• Oversee Technology Solutions: Lead the evaluation, design, implementation, and continuous optimization of tax technology platforms, ensuring scalability, reliability, data integrity, and operational effectiveness.
• Strengthen Compliance and Controls: Partner with Tax, Finance, IT, and other stakeholders to enhance tax reporting, regulatory compliance, risk management, and internal controls through technology-enabled solutions.
• Lead Cross-Functional Initiatives: Collaborate with senior business leaders, technology teams, and external partners to translate complex tax requirements into sustainable solutions and drive successful enterprise-wide initiatives.
• Deliver Operational Excellence: Establish performance measures, monitor technology investments, and identify opportunities to streamline processes, reduce manual effort, improve accuracy, and deliver measurable business value.
• Build Organizational Capability: Provide strategic direction, technical guidance, and leadership to teams and stakeholders while promoting innovation, continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and effective change management.

Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Significant progressive experience in tax technology, tax operations, financial systems, or related enterprise technology functions, including demonstrated leadership of complex technology initiatives.
• Strong understanding of corporate tax processes, tax compliance, reporting requirements, and the application of technology within a complex business environment.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise technology implementations, digital transformation programs, process automation, or large-scale systems integration initiatives.
• Experience evaluating and working with tax technology platforms, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, data management tools, or related financial technology solutions.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, manage competing priorities, and lead cross-functional teams through complex organizational and technology changes.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical, problem-solving, communication, and project management skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into actionable technology strategies.

What Sets You Apart (preferred qualifications)

• Advanced degree in Accounting, Taxation, Finance, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or relevant professional certification such as CPA.
• Experience with enterprise tax technology platforms such as Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE, Wolters Kluwer CCH, Vertex, or similar solutions.
• Knowledge of data analytics, business intelligence, robotic process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence, or machine learning applications within tax and finance operations.
• Experience leading tax technology initiatives within a global, publicly traded organization or a complex financial services environment.
• Familiarity with ERP platforms such as SAP or Oracle and their integration with tax reporting and compliance systems.
• Demonstrated ability to assess emerging technologies, build business cases, and deliver measurable return on technology investments.
• Experience managing external technology partners, consultants, vendors, and large-scale transformation programs.

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Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

SS&C Technologies offers a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and future. Our benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; a 401(k) plan with company match; paid time off, holidays, and parental leave; and professional development reimbursement opportunity.

Actual base salary will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to relevant skills, prior experience, education, demonstrated performance, and geographic location.

Massachusetts: The expected base salary for the position is between $165,000.00 USD to $235,000.00 USD.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.