Tax Manager

About the Role At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well‑being, and nurture your career. We are looking for a Tax Artificial Intelligence Manager who leads the engineering team responsible for building and evolving an AI‑enabled application platform that supports document processing, workflow automation, AI‑assisted analysis, and internal and external user‑facing applications for tax. This role sits at the intersection of software architecture and AI/technology execution, partnering with product owners, business subject matter experts, security, and infrastructure teams to translate real “jobs to be done” into secure, scalable, enterprise‑grade software. What You’ll Do Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of AI‑enabled software products and internal platforms, owning decisions across backend services, async processing, AI integrations, cloud, data and security. Manage and mentor software engineers, quality assurance professionals, and business analysts, providing technical guidance, code review, delivery planning, and career development. Own cloud architecture on Microsoft Azure, including async and event‑driven workloads, background jobs and reliable, cost‑effective operations. Ensure secure handling of data, secrets, authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, encrypted storage and auditability. Improve engineering practices around testing, CI/CD, monitoring, deployment, documentation and operational support. Establish development standards for clean architecture, dependency injection, async design and API consistency. Maintain and evolve a Python/FastAPI monorepo with multiple application services and shared packages. Make pragmatic architecture decisions that balance speed, quality, risk and long‑term maintainability. Coach and develop engineers, QA professionals and business analysts, supporting career growth and strong delivery habits. Run code reviews, delivery planning and technical guidance that raise the quality bar across the team. Partner with product owners and business SMEs to translate ambiguous needs into clear, deliverable technical work. Guide integrations with Azure Foundry, Azure AI Document Intelligence and other Azure resources across document‑processing and AI‑assisted analysis pipelines. Establish responsible, repeatable patterns for prompting, embeddings, semantic search and AI evaluation within controlled enterprise tools. Oversee asynchronous job processing using Azure Service Bus and Azure Functions. Support production troubleshooting, performance tuning, cost management and reliability improvements. Strengthen observability through structured logging, tracing, Azure Monitor and Application Insights. Stakeholders & Collaboration Model Development team (direct reports, delivery owners) Product owners and business/tax SMEs (requirements, prioritization, workflows) Security, compliance and infrastructure teams (identity, governance, approved tooling) Client‑facing and leadership stakeholders (roadmap, delivery commitments, business outcomes) Qualifications 7+ years of professional software engineering experience. 2+ years leading engineers as an engineering manager, technical lead, staff engineer or architecture lead. Strong hands‑on Python backend development experience, including production web APIs and distributed systems. Strong understanding of cloud architecture, preferably Microsoft Azure. Experience with async processing, queue‑based workloads, background jobs and event‑driven systems. Experience with relational databases—preferably PostgreSQL—including SQLAlchemy and schema migrations. Familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing, code review, release management and production support. Strong security mindset across secrets management, identity, authorization, encryption and auditability. Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders and to make pragmatic architecture trade‑offs. Bachelor’s degree required. Preferred Qualifications Experience building AI‑enabled or LLM‑powered applications (Azure OpenAI, OpenAI APIs, prompt engineering, embeddings, semantic search or AI evaluation). Experience with document extraction, OCR, PDF processing or Azure AI Document Intelligence. Experience with multi‑tenant SaaS or enterprise internal platforms. Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT and API gateway patterns. Experience with Azure API Management, Azure Monitor, Application Insights and Managed Identity. Experience modernizing legacy applications or moving teams toward cleaner architecture and stronger engineering practices. Experience with financial, accounting, tax, compliance or professional services workflows is helpful but not required. We are open to candidates across a range of seniority; scope, title, and compensation will be aligned to the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications. We appreciate talent from all over the United States and are willing to consider candidates who may not be located near a Crowe office location for this role/opening. Technology Environment Python 3.12+, FastAPI, async‑first service design (AsyncIO) Pydantic, Pydantic Settings, Uvicorn, Gunicorn SQLAlchemy async ORM with Alembic migrations; Azure PostgreSQL Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Key Vault, Azure API Management, Managed Identity Azure Monitor, Application Insights Azure Foundry, OpenAI Python SDK, Microsoft Agentic Framework, Azure AI Document Intelligence FAISS, scikit‑learn, RapidFuzz for semantic search and matching PyMuPDF, pypdf, pandas, numpy for document and data processing Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD, Okta; OAuth2/OIDC, JWT; machine‑to‑machine API authentication; Key Vault‑backed secrets, encrypted storage, tenant isolation, audit logging Azure DevOps Pipelines, Octopus Deploy, Veracode scanning pytest, pytest‑asyncio, pytest‑cov; OpenTelemetry, structlog (structured logging) Jinja2 templates, HTML/CSS, vanilla JavaScript served via FastAPI Benefits Your exceptional people experience starts here. At Crowe, we care about our people and offer employees a comprehensive total rewards package. Our Values We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times. EEO Statement Crowe LLP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. Crowe is not sponsoring for work authorization at this time. Application deadline: September 1, 2026. Wage range: $95,500.00 – $195,400.00 per year. For more information about accommodations or accessibility options, please visit #J-18808-Ljbffr