Tax Innovation - Software Engineering - Director

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The Role
Leads tax technology initiatives by directing software architecture, application design, coding, testing, integration, and client-facing solution delivery. Sets strategic direction, develops roadmaps, drives business growth, evaluates AI and emerging technologies, guides cross-functional teams, coaches leaders, and ensures professional and independence standards. Translates tax requirements into scalable engineering strategies while improving service delivery and business performance.
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The Opportunity
As a Tax Innovation - Software Engineering - Director you will lead the design and delivery of software solutions that support tax services, bringing together engineering, product thinking, and client-facing problem solving within our Tax practice. As a Director you will set direction, drive business growth, shape client work, and guide teams across multiple efforts while translating vision into action and fostering a culture of quality, integrity, and inclusion. In this role at PwC, you will use your software engineering background to develop applications, evaluate new approaches, and help turn tax technology ideas into practical solutions that improve service delivery and business performance.
Responsibilities
- Setting strategic direction for tax technology initiatives and translating business priorities into software engineering plans
- Leading client-facing software engineering efforts that support tax innovation, digital transformation, and service delivery improvement
- Overseeing architecture, design, coding, and testing activities for scalable applications and technology-enabled solutions
- Shaping client engagement strategy, business growth opportunities, and solution roadmaps across multiple concurrent efforts
- Directing cross-functional teams through enterprise application architecture, integration, and functional requirements development
- Evaluating emerging technologies, including AI tools, to advance automation, productivity, and modern engineering approaches
- Coaching leaders and developing team capability across solution architecture, programming, and business process management
- Validating adherence to professional standards, code of conduct, and independence requirements throughout technology delivery
- Building relationships with business and technology leaders to identify opportunities, address issues, and advance innovation efforts
What You Must Have
- At least a Bachelor's degree
- At least 8 years of experience
What Sets You Apart
- Demonstrating software engineering leadership in tax innovation initiatives
- Driving client-focused technology solutions across tax service delivery
- Developing software architecture, integration, and application design approaches
- Translating tax requirements into scalable engineering strategies
- Leading thoughtful change across people, process, and technology
- Adhering to professional standards, code of conduct, and independence requirements
The salary range for this position is: $150,000 - $438,000. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws. All hired individuals are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. PwC offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation, personal and family sick leave, and more. To view our benefits at a glance, please visit the following link: https://pwc.to/benefits-at-a-glance
As PwC is an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity); age; disability; genetic information (including family medical history); veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or, any other status protected by law.
PwC does not intend to hire experienced or entry level job seekers who will need, now or in the future, PwC sponsorship through the H-1B lottery, except as set forth within the following policy: https://pwc.to/H-1B-Lottery-Policy.
Learn more about how we work: https://pwc.to/how-we-work
For only those qualified applicants that are impacted by the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, San Diego County Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable, arrest or conviction records will be considered for Employment in accordance with these laws. At PwC, we recognize that conviction records may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship to responsibilities such as accessing sensitive company or customer information, handling proprietary assets, or collaborating closely with team members. We evaluate these factors thoughtfully to establish a secure and trusted workplace for all.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree or higher
  • At least 8 years of experience

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  • Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is set at 12 weeks for all parents, complemented by adoption/surrogacy leave and family-caregiver leave. Backup childcare, childcare discounts, eldercare resources, tutoring, and fertility-related benefits further reinforce family support.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off spans vacation, holidays, personal/family sick time, bereavement, and other leave programs, with some practices including two firmwide week-long shutdowns in July and December. This breadth provides multiple avenues to step away when client demands allow.
  • Retirement Support — A layered approach pairs a 401(k) with employer matching and an employer-funded Wealth Builder plan, both using graded vesting. This structure provides multiple avenues to build long-term savings.

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Year Founded: 1998

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Build what’s next — with tech that matters PwC provides professional services across Audit and Assurance, Advisory and Tax — powered by a global network of over 370,000 people in 149 countries. You may know us for our business expertise, but technology is core to how we help clients move faster, build trust and deliver meaningful outcomes. As a technologist, you’ll work on agile teams with experienced engineers and product thinkers — using AI, cloud, cybersecurity and more to design scalable, real-world solutions. You’ll keep learning, stay challenged and be part of a network where your growth is built in — and your work drives what’s next.

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At PwC, our professionals include technologists, engineers, programmers and consultants working across AI, cloud, cybersecurity, data and more. You’ll explore innovative ways to help clients transform their business through technology—reducing complexity, unlocking value and shaping a more agile, data-driven future.

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