Tax Artificial Intelligence Manager

Overview Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here: 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. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry. Job Description: The Tax Artificial Intelligence Manager 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 (SMEs), security, and infrastructure teams to translate real “jobs to be done” into secure, scalable, enterprise-grade software. Tax domain knowledge is not required. The successful candidate should be comfortable learning business workflows from subject matter experts and translating those workflows into reliable software systems. You will own technical direction across backend services, asynchronous processing, AI integrations, cloud infrastructure, data persistence, security, and observability, balancing speed, quality, risk, and maintainability. What You’ll Do Architecture & Technical Leadership – 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. Team Leadership & Mentorship – Manage and mentor software engineers, quality assurance professionals, and business analysts, providing technical guidance, code review, delivery planning, and career development. Cloud & Platform Engineering – Own cloud architecture on Microsoft Azure, including async and event-driven workloads, background jobs, and reliable, cost-effective operations. Security & Data Protection – Ensure secure handling of data, secrets, authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, encrypted storage, and auditability. Delivery & Engineering Excellence – Improve engineering practices around testing, CI/CD, monitoring, deployment, documentation, and operational support. Architecture & Delivery – 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. Team Leadership – Coach and develop engineers, quality assurance 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. AI Integration & Document Processing – 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. Cloud, Async & Operations – 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, and Azure Monitor / Application Insights. Security & Compliance – Ensure secure handling of data, secrets, identity, authorization, tenant isolation, encrypted storage, and audit logging; partner with security and compliance stakeholders on identity, access, and responsible-use standards. Stakeholders & Collaboration Model – Partner across development teams, product owners and SMEs, security/compliance/infrastructure teams, and client-facing and leadership stakeholders to align roadmaps and outcomes. Technology Environment Our platform is built on the following stack. Depth across every item is not expected; familiarity with the core backend and Azure ecosystem matters most. Core Backend & Data – Python 3.12+, FastAPI, async-first service design; Pydantic / Pydantic Settings; Uvicorn / Gunicorn; SQLAlchemy (async ORM) with Alembic migrations; Azure PostgreSQL. Cloud & Platform (Microsoft Azure) – Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Key Vault, Azure API Management, Managed Identity, Azure Monitor / Application Insights. AI & Document Processing – Azure Foundry, OpenAI Python SDK, Microsoft Agentic Framework; Azure AI Document Intelligence; FAISS, scikit-learn, RapidFuzz; PyMuPDF / pypdf, pandas, numpy. Security & Identity – Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD, Okta; OAuth2 / OIDC, JWT; key management and audit logging. DevOps, Testing & Observability – Azure DevOps Pipelines, Octopus Deploy; Veracode; pytest, pytest-asyncio, pytest-cov; OpenTelemetry and structured logging. Frontend / UI (lightweight) – Jinja2 templates, HTML/CSS, vanilla JavaScript via FastAPI. 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; compensation will be aligned to experience and qualifications. We welcome talent from all over the United States and are willing to consider candidates not located near a Crowe office. Additional We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. The application deadline is 09/01/2026. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States. Crowe is not sponsoring for work authorization at this time. The wage range for this role is $95,500.00 - $195,400.00 per year, based on factors including skills, experience, and location. Our Benefits & Growth Our Benefits: Our comprehensive total rewards package supports our people. Learn more about working at Crowe. How You Can Grow: We nurture talent in an inclusive culture. You will meet regularly with a Career Coach to guide your goals and aspirations. More about Crowe Crowe is one of the largest public accounting, consulting and technology firms in the United States. We provide audit, tax, advisory, risk and performance services. Crowe is recognized as a great place to work and serves clients worldwide as an independent member of Crowe Global. Crowe LLP is an equal employment opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type. Crowe will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable laws. For more information about equal opportunity and our applicant accommodations, visit: #J-18808-Ljbffr Crowe