Director, Global Tax Technology Architect

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

• Bachelors 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.