About the Role
This is your chance to help shape how Deloitte and our clients use data, automation and AI to transform tax. As a Tax Data Automation Analyst in our Tax Transformation & Technology team, you will work with Tax specialists and engineers to turn complex tax logic, client data and expected outcomes into reliable, traceable and testable solutions.
Responsibilities
- Work with Tax specialists to clarify requirements, exceptions and expected outcomes.
- Build and maintain tax calculation, classification and validation rules using Python, SQL and established engineering patterns.
- Build data workflows, schemas, mappings and client configurations for ERP and finance data.
- Implement automated data-quality, anomaly, reconciliation and regression controls using reference datasets, golden datasets and output comparisons.
- Diagnose and resolve production issues across live Tax modules during peak delivery periods.
- Document rules, schemas, transformations and technical decisions for people and AI-assisted tools.
- Improve the Tax platform and rules-engine framework through reusable capabilities, templates and tooling.
- Contribute to Python tools, data services and evaluation harnesses for AI-assisted and agentic Tax workflows.
Requirements
- Around 1-2 years’ experience in data engineering, analytics engineering or data automation
- Strong Python and SQL for ELT and rules-based processing
- Experience with Polars, Pandas, DuckDB, or similar data-processing tools
- Knowledge of relational data, data quality and ETL/ELT patterns
- Experience validating and reconciling data using reference datasets, output comparisons or automated tests
- Ability to build data-quality and anomaly controls and troubleshoot production issues
- Ability to workshop requirements with Tax SMEs and translate them into testable rules
- Strong logical reasoning across calculations, classifications, precedence and exceptions
- Familiarity with Git, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD and technical documentation
- Clear communication, curiosity and a self-directed approach to learning
- Exposure to Tax, accounting, ERP or other finance data
- Exposure to rules engines, decision tables or configuration-driven processing
- Exposure to Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow or other cloud, container and orchestration technologies
- Exposure to statistical anomaly detection or advanced data profiling techniques
- Exposure to AI-assisted engineering tools and exposure to LLM APIs, tool calling, evaluation harnesses or agentic Tax workflows
- Strong Python and SQL foundations
- Careful reasoning
- Willingness to learn
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- Polars
- Pandas
- DuckDB
- Git
- CI/CD
- Data Engineering
- Analytics Engineering
- Data Automation
- ELT
- Rules-based processing
- Relational data
- Data quality
- ETL/ELT patterns
- Data validation
- Data reconciliation
- Automated testing
- Technical documentation
- Logical reasoning
- Cloud technologies
- Container technologies
- Orchestration technologies
- Statistical anomaly detection
- Data profiling
- AI-assisted engineering tools
- LLM APIs
- Tool calling
- Evaluation harnesses
- Agentic Tax workflows
Experience Level
- 1-2 years
Benefits
- World-class learning and leadership programs
- Discounts & perks – a variety of employee discounts at over 100 leading retailers
- Retail discounts
- Wellbeing leave
- Paid volunteering days
- Twelve flexible working options
- Market-leading parental leave and return to work support package
About the Company
- Deloitte’s Tax Transformation & Technology team builds and operates the products, platforms and engineering capabilities that are changing how tax work gets done.
- We believe the future of tax will be powered by data, automation and AI.
- Our multidisciplinary team brings together tax specialists, rules and data engineers, software engineers, product thinkers and AI technologists to solve complex problems and turn ideas into dependable production solutions.
- We are modernising our shared tax platform and rules-engine while supporting a portfolio of business-critical tax modules.
- At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work.
- We're always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society.
- We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction - whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.
- We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion.
- We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles.
- What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone's perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.
- We value in-person connection with our clients and our colleagues.
- We offer several ways for you to work flexibly so that you can serve your clients, stay connected with your team, and manage your personal priorities.
- We help you live and work well.
Equal Opportunity
- We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion.
- We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles.
- What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone's perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.
