Data and AI Specialist - Agentic Tax Processes and Platforms

The Data & AI Specialist supports the Data & AI Leader of Agentic Tax Processes & Platforms in designing, architecting, and building agentic tax workflows underpinned by AI-ready data products and robust data engineering. This role sits at the intersection of tax domain understanding, data architecture and engineering, and applied AI and agent orchestration., * Agentic Workflow & AI Design

• Design agentic workflows for tax processes, including task-level agent responsibilities, agent-to-agent communication patterns, human-in-the-Loop and escalation models, feedback loops and agent performance monitoring and evaluations.
• Define reusable agent blueprints aligned to Lean-derived task definitions.
• Apply leading-edge agentic design and build methodologies (e.g., use of Codex, Factory AI, GitHub Copilot).
• Data Architecture & AI-Ready Data Products
• Build AI-ready data marts that expose tax data at the right grain, maintain lineage and quality controls, and support deterministic and probabilistic reasoning.
• Build data ingestion and transformation pipelines from ERP systems, tax platforms, semi-structured documents, and external data sources.
• Agent Governance & Security
• Build embedded agent and workflow governance and security, ensuring compatibility and integration with client governance models and technology (e.g., Microsoft Agent 365).
• Design and embed real-time controls and risk monitoring.

• 6+ years’ experience in data architecture, data engineering, and analytics, including SQL database building, database design, and data modeling.
• Advanced certifications in AI, machine learning, cloud computing, or data engineering are highly advantageous.
• Hands-on experience with modern data platforms and AI tooling such as Azure ML, Databricks, MLflow, LangChain, LangGraph.
• Strong grounding in data modeling, data governance and quality, large-scale data integration.
• Hands-on experience applying AI/ML or advanced analytics in production environments.
• Proficiency in programming or scripting languages, e.g., C++, Java, Python and key ML libraries (PyTorch, PySpark, scikit-learn, Hugging Face Transformers).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a relentless desire to learn and keep up with technology developments.
• Strong critical thinking and analytical mindset for transforming abstract concepts into clear insights, requirements and solutions., * Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent work experience; higher relevant education preferred.
• Prior work in Tax Technology or Finance platforms.
• Experience with agentic AI concepts, orchestration, and workflow-driven automation.
• Exposure to cloud-based data platforms and modern AI stacks., * Quality and reusability of AI-ready data marts.
• Stability and scalability of agent deployments.Speed from Lean design to working agent.
• Reuse of assets across clients and service lines.

EY’s Global Tax Centre of Excellence Data & AI team plays a prominent role in leading client transformation initiatives that leverage Data & AI as core capabilities. The CoE seeks to architect reusable patterns and process blueprints to bootstrap scalability across all the EY Tax technology teams in key markets.