Business Systems Architect (Tax)
Stripe Open · verified Oct 24, 2026 At a glance
Mid-level Engineering Leadership role at Stripe. South San Francisco · $274,456–$334,600 base.
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What you'll do
- Build tax-system features alongside tax stakeholders, connecting Oracle applications with Stripe-built tax tools and related systems
- Spot tax tasks suited to automation, advance transformation work, and keep financial applications and SOX controls in order
- Carry tax projects from gathering needs and choosing tools through system design, testing, launch, training, and ongoing support
- Translate tax teams’ process challenges into a technology roadmap for automation and more efficient work
- Connect indirect-tax tools and data flows with Stripe engineering teams, while shaping architecture for future scale
What you bring
- A bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, finance or a related field, plus at least eight years building and maintaining tax systems
- At least eight years delivering finance and compliance products globally, leading projects, and designing financial systems for direct or indirect tax
- Eight years with tax platforms such as Sabrix, Vertex or another listed tool, plus reporting in SQL or another listed tool
- Eight years applying VAT, sales tax or GST methods to global compliance and reporting
Who this fits
This role suits someone with substantial tax-systems experience who can lead finance technology projects and work with tax and engineering teams. It is based in South San Francisco, with telecommuting permitted for half of the work time.
From the employer
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.
What you’ll do
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Tax team stakeholders to design and implement features of our financial systems that include Oracle Cloud Applications (Financials, TRCS, Fusion Tax), Stripe homegrown Tax Solutions and many other tools.
- Identify opportunities to automate Tax processes, work on transformation initiatives, implement SOX controls and maintain our financial Applications.
- Lead Finance systems (primarily Tax area including but not limited to Direct and Indirect Taxes) projects and strategic initiatives - including implementation of new tools and business process changes - from requirements, tool selection, system design, implementation, UAT, training, go-live & post go-live support.
- Serve as a technology liaison with Tax stakeholders to understand their pain points, opportunities for process improvements, automation & efficiency gains, create strategic roadmap and provide them with technology solutions.
- Demonstrate an understanding of increasingly complex sales tax, transfer pricing and Tax provisioning concepts and effectively apply knowledge to develop and maintain tax systems and data flows.
- Design solutions and make architecture decisions by benchmarking with industry best practices to help us scale for the future.
- Partner with Engineering product teams to develop & deliver technical solutions to optimize financial workflow and integration with other Stripe internal systems.
- Implement and maintain the Fusion Tax and Integrate with homegrown Tax system for Indirect Tax determination.
- Own the Tax Applications Configure & Maintain Systems Data protection & integrity Tax Compliance & SOX controls.
Who you are
Minimum requirements
Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science, Finance or a related field, plus 8 years of experience in Building and maintaining tax systems, of which, at least 5 years must be post-bachelors progressive experience.
Must also have 8 years of experience in each of the following:
- Building and implementing finance and compliance products at global scale.
- Tax systems including Sabrix, Vertex, Oracle EBTax and Fusion Cloud Tax.
- Program or project management.
- Designing Internal Financial systems for Indirect or Direct Tax needs.
- Reporting development using SQL, PL/SQL, or BI Publisher.
- Taxation methods including VAT, Sales Tax, or GST, and related global compliance and reporting needs.
Salary: $274,456.00 - $334,600.00/yr.
This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.
40 hrs/week
50% Telecommuting permitted.
Multiple Positions Available.
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. CA36
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