Senior Data Engineer – Indirect Tax & Customs
London | Hybrid – 3 days per week in office | Permanent
We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help us rethink how data and technology are used across Indirect Tax & Customs.
In a high-volume global e-commerce business, tax outcomes are created across millions of transactions and multiple systems spanning customer orders, payments, fulfilment, logistics, customs, returns and finance.
We want to connect that data.
You'll work directly with Indirect Tax & Customs specialists and with Data, Technology, Finance and Supply Chain teams to build scalable data products, automated controls and analytics that solve real business problems.
This isn't a traditional tax role. You don't need to be a VAT or customs expert.
We're looking for a strong data engineer who is curious about complex business processes and wants to use technology to fundamentally change how they work.
Order → Payment → Fulfilment → Shipment → Customs → Tax → Return → Accounting → Compliance
- Design and build scalable data pipelines across complex transactional systems
- Develop reusable data models supporting tax, customs, finance and supply-chain outcomes
- Automate reconciliations currently dependent on manual data manipulation
- Build controls that analyse complete transaction populations and identify exceptions
- Connect ERP, e-commerce, logistics, customs and tax datasets
- Develop analytics and dashboards that identify risk and financial opportunities
- Improve data quality, lineage and auditability
- Explore opportunities to use automation, machine learning and AI to solve tax and customs challenges.
Can every customs declaration be matched back to the correct shipment and transaction?
Are all transactions reaching the correct VAT reporting process?
Can we automatically identify import VAT that hasn't been recovered?
Can we detect unusual tax outcomes before they become compliance issues?
Can we use data to identify customs duty savings or recovery opportunities?
- Build a trusted Indirect Tax & Customs data foundation
- Automate key reconciliations
- Introduce continuous, exception-based controls
- Reduce manual spreadsheet-driven processes
- Identify tax and customs leakage opportunities
- Improve visibility of tax risk
- Develop new automation and AI use cases.
If you enjoy solving complex data problems and want to see your engineering work translate directly into measurable business outcomes, we'd love to hear from you.
