Director, Tax

Description
About Alvarez & Marsal
Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global consulting firm with over 10,000 entrepreneurial, action and results-oriented professionals in over 40 countries. We take a hands-on approach to solving our clients' problems and assisting them in reaching their potential. Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are why our people love working at A&M.

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The Team
Our DTS team provides following services to clients:

• Data & Applied Intelligence - Helping clients in harnessing the power of data and cutting-edge analytics to drive intelligent decision-making and transform businesses.
• Product and Innovation - Empowering clients to innovate, develop, and launch products that drives growth and competitive advantage.
• Technology M&A and Strategy - Assist clients to manage the technology aspects and business enablement of complex M&A, integrations and carve-outs.
• Technology Transformation - A&M helps clients create a scalable, cost-effective IT function that delivers the company's strategic vision and priorities.

How will you contribute?
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Architect (Microsoft Azure) to lead the design, implementation and optimization of our Azure-based Data Platform solution. The candidate will be expected to be hands-on in defining the infrastructure and platform design, evaluate services or components to use and ensure scalability for multi-client or tenant usage. The architect will form part of our technology leadership group, shaping the technology strategy for A&M teams and clients, evaluating third party software proposals and defining best practices for implementation teams to follow.

Key responsibilities:

• Azure platform architecture and design – Own the end-to-end architecture design for A&M's tax data platform, ensuring a scalable, secure and high-performance solution. Ensuring ease of provisioning instances of the solution in A&M's cloud infrastructure or deploying into a client's environment.
• Infrastructure and cloud optimization – Ensure the right infrastructure, cost-efficient cloud resources, and high availability configurations are in place. Conduct proof-of-concepts when determining pros and cons between services or component selection.
• Security and data privacy – considering design requirements and controls to protect client and A&M data and aligning to country-level requirements
• Design principles, best practices and reviews - Establish guidelines for development teams to ensure efficient, scalable, and maintainable code. Act as the technical advisor for engineering teams, providing direction during development, testing and deployment, whilst performing necessary reviews.
• Third-party software review – Responsible for reviewing third-party software provider proposals to determine whether technology components and solution designs are best practice and aligned to A&M's technology landscape.
• Stakeholder and vendor collaboration – Work closely with business leaders, development teams, and vendors to align technology decision with strategic goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field. 15+ years of experience in solution architecture with a focus on Azure cloud stack.
• Hands-on experience with SQL. Confident writing complex queries, joins, and transformations. Deep knowledge of Azure App Services, AKS, Azure Functions, SQL, CosmosDB, Data Lake, and API Management.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or equivalent certifications.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security, networking, compliance, and governance best practices.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Proficiency in Terraform, ARM Templates, Bicep, and automated deployments.
• CI/CD & DevOps – Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Cloud Security & Compliance – Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture, IAM, RBAC, GDPR, SOC 2.

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• Performance Optimization – Ability to enhance scalability, cost efficiency, and high availability of Azure workloads.
• API & Microservices Design – Proficiency in REST, GraphQL, API Gateway, and event-driven architectures.
• Hybrid Cloud & Multi-Cloud – Understanding of hybrid connectivity, Azure Arc, and multi-cloud strategies.
• Certifications in Microsoft Azure Architecture, Power Platform, and Snowflake.
• Hands-on development experience with the Azure stack.
• Familiarity with third party tax solutions and data integration processes is a plus.

Your journey at A&M
We recognize that our people are the driving force behind our success, which is why we prioritize an employee experience that fosters each person's unique professional and personal development. Our robust performance development process promotes continuous learning, rewards your contributions, and fosters a culture of meritocracy. With top-notch training and on-the-job learning opportunities, you can acquire new skills and advance your career. We prioritize your well-being, providing benefits and resources to support you on your personal journey. Our people consistently highlight the growth opportunities, our unique, entrepreneurial culture, and the fun we have together as their favorite aspects of working at A&M. The possibilities are endless for high-performing and passionate professionals.

Inclusive Diversity

A&M's entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity, and we foster inclusiveness, encouraging everyone to bring their whole self to work each day. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is Alvarez & Marsal's practice to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex or gender, gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, family medical history, genetic information or other protected medical condition, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by and in accordance with applicable laws. Employees and Applicants can find A&M policy statements and additional information by region here.

Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party Recruiters

Please note that as per A&M policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that A&M will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.