Tax M20

Director, Global Tax Technology Architect

Position Overview

The Director, Global Tax Technology Architect leads the execution of the global tax technology strategy, with a focus on maintaining and enhancing a centralized tax data environment and advancing AI-enabled capabilities across the tax function.

This high-impact role oversees a team responsible for delivering scalable, technology-driven solutions, combining data architecture, automation, and AI tools to modernize tax operations in a complex, decentralized global organization. With a diverse platform of companies, our business offers opportunities for continuous growth and new challenges. We are seeking a strong, motivated, and team-oriented leader to join us on this technology journey.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead global tax technology operations and partner across tax, finance, and IT to align data, automation, and AI capabilities with business objectives.
• Define and execute the tax technology roadmap, driving adoption of AI (including applications and agents) and modern data architecture.
• Architect and implement a centralized tax data lake/warehouse, integrating data from multiple ERP and financial systems.
• Design data models, ingestion pipelines, and frameworks to support scalable analytics, business intelligence, and AI-driven use cases (e.g., forecasting, predictive modeling).
• Enable integration of AI tools and automation platforms (e.g., Microsoft Power Platform, Alteryx) to enhance data extraction, analysis, and workflow efficiency.
• Drive transformation of core tax processes (compliance, provision, transfer pricing, reporting) through automation, standardization, and improved controls.
• Ensure solutions are SOX-compliant, auditable, and aligned with enterprise governance, security, and data quality standards.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team while building strong cross-functional partnerships to deliver scalable, forward-looking solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in accounting, finance, computer science, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience, including progressive roles in tax and/or finance technology, leadership of transformative technology implementations, AI capability exploration, and system architecture design and execution within a large multinational organization.
• Hands-on experience with AI tools (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) and automation platforms (e.g., Power Platform, Alteryx).
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise data architecture (data lake/warehouse) in complex, multi-system environments.
• Strong understanding of ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, NetSuite) and financial reporting tools (e.g., OneStream, Workiva).

Why Join Fortive

This is a high-impact leadership role at the center of our tax and technology transformation and offers the opportunity to build advanced data and AI capabilities and shape the future of the global tax function.