Lead Architect, Tax Profile Platform

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

RSU eligibility

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a Lead Engineer to own the technical vision and delivery of AWS's Tax Profile platform. You will drive architecture decisions and work with product, tax compliance, and dependent platform teams to enable global expansion.

You will lead multi-jurisdiction capability delivery, build scalable APIs, and ensure high availability in a multi-tenant system, unblocking enterprise customers with complex tax obligations and driving operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Technical leadership and architecture: Own the system design and long-term technical vision for Tax Profile, evolving it to a multi-persona platform.
• Multi-jurisdiction capability delivery: Design and deliver features for multi-tax-registration management across jurisdictions.
• Platform abstraction design: Build scalable APIs and data models to decouple tax identity management from tenants or use cases.
• Cross-team technical integration: Partner with Control Plane, Invoice Configuration, Tax Calculation, and Marketplace teams to define interfaces.
• Enterprise customer unblock: Deliver capabilities addressing complex billing requirements for multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction tax obligations.
• Engineering excellence: Establish technical standards for code quality, testing strategy, and scalability; mentor engineers.
• Operational ownership: Ensure Tax Profile operates with high availability and low-latency at scale and manage on-call and incidents.
• Technical debt reduction: retire country-specific implementations in favor of generalized configurable solutions.

Skills

Software architecture

Leadership

Mentoring

API design

Distributed systems

Multi-tenant platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a Lead Engineer to own the technical vision and delivery of AWS's Tax Profile platform. You will drive architecture decisions and work with product, tax compliance, and dependent platform teams to enable global expansion.

You will lead multi-jurisdiction capability delivery, build scalable APIs, and ensure high availability in a multi-tenant system, unblocking enterprise customers with complex tax obligations and driving operational excellence.