Tax Technology Professional - Full-Stack Developer, Senior Associate

Transforming tax and finance functions into data-powered operations is a game-changer for businesses today. Tax authorities worldwide are digitizing systems for seamless integration and real-time assessments. Businesses need to embrace technology and ensure fit-for-purpose systems to tackle complex tax obligations while delivering valuable insights. Technology transformation is no longer an option but a strategic advantage.

At EY, being part of the global network firms, you’ll have the exception opportunity to craft a career that elevates yourself to your utmost potential. With access to global network of resources, support, industry knowledge and cutting-edge technology, you will find plenty of opportunities to leverage and expand upon your wealth of experience into tax technology and transformation that help our business delivering exceptional client services.

We will support you with career-long training and coaching to develop your consultancy and analytical skills that you will need in today's digital environment. And we’re counting on your unique experience and perspective to help EY become even better, too.

Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

EY is looking for a highly skilled and motivated individual to join us as a senior Full-Stack Developer in our Tax Technology Team based in Kuala Lumpur. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will play a critical role in the design, development and implementation as well as maintenance of our tax technology solutions.

Your key responsibilities

1. Solution Development and Maintenance:

• Collaborate with business analysts and stakeholders to understand functional and non-functional requirements and translate them into high-quality and scalable software solutions.
• Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to the design of software solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability and performance.
• Develop and implement end-to-end software solutions, from front-end development to backend APIs and database integration.
• Build responsive and intuitive user interfaces (with Vue.js and other frontend technologies), employing the best UI/UX design practices.
• Develop APIs (using Spring Boot and other backend technologies), ensuring scalable and high-performance backend services.
• Familiarity with Azure services and integration with Kubernetes for deployment and management.
• Design and implement automated testing frameworks, including unit tests, integration tests and end-to-end tests, to ensure the reliability and quality of our software solutions.

2. Technical Excellence:

• Analyse complex technical problems and develop innovative solutions that align with business objectives.
• Write clean, efficient, well-structured and maintainable code, aligned with best practices on coding standards, architectural principles and agile software development methodologies.
• Conduct thorough code reviews to maintain code quality and consistency.
• Ensure code changes are utilising appropriate branching strategies and committed timely, well-organised and versioned in the appropriate code management tools.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of software design, code and system architecture.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to drive innovation and continuously improve our business strategies and operations.

3. Collaboration and Communication:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on product management, business analysis, UX/UI design, quality assurance and operations, to ensure successful solution delivery, as well as ongoing maintenance and support.
• Resolve technical issues and conflicts among the teams, promoting a positive and solution-oriented approach.
• Communicate technical concepts and project updates to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and understandable manner.

4. Risk Management:

• Identify potential risks, bottlenecks and challenges in projects and proactively work with the team to mitigate them.
• Ensure that our tax technology solutions adhere to EY’s information security standards and protocols on data security, data loss prevention, disaster recovery and other aspects based on industry standards.
• Work closely with the respective EY Global technology teams to complete the internal approval procedures for go-live and all change requests.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience of 4+ years in leading solution architecture design and software development for complex, scalable and secure technology applications.
• Strong experience in agile software development methodologies and DevOps practices, solution architecture, coding standards and full stack development, including frontend technologies (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Vue.js, React or Angular), backend technologies (Java, C#, Python, .Net, Node.js, Spring Boot, databases) and cloud platforms (particularly Azure and Kubernetes setup and deployment).
• Knowledge of data exchanging concepts and architectures, including but not limited to:
  • • RESTful APIs, and
    • ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes and tools.
• Experience in automated software testing tools as well as modern tools such as Alteryx and MS Power Platform will be an advantage.

What we look for

Highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a rapidly changing working environment. An effective communicator, you’ll be a confident leader equipped with strong people management skills and a genuine passion to make things happen in a dynamic organization. If you’re ready to take on a wide range of responsibilities and are committed to seeking out new ways to make a difference, this role is for you.

What we offer

EY offers a competitive remuneration package commensurate with your work experience, where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. We are committed to being an inclusive employer and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements (FWA), where this may be needed, guided by our FWA Policy. Plus, we offer: 

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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