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Skatteetaten Tech Stack

Norway's tax authority modernizing compliance infrastructure on cloud infrastructure

Government Administration Oslo 5,001–10,000 employees Government Agency

Skatteetaten operates Norway's tax administration across 5,000+ employees with a modern cloud-native stack (Azure, Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL, React) and is actively migrating legacy systems (Jira Service Management to cloud). Current hiring focus is heavily engineering and finance-skewed, while projects center on digital process transformation, real-time tax control operations, and a digital wallet implementation — signaling a shift from manual compliance checking toward data-driven enforcement and taxpayer-facing digital services.

Tech Stack 49 technologies

Core StackTerraform Jira Power BI Kubernetes OpenShift Grafana OpenTelemetry Helm Ansible ArgoCD Go Python Java Splunk Kotlin PostgreSQL React TypeScript Kafka GitHub Actions Azure SQL Azure Kubernetes Service Mimir Tempo Flux Tekton Excel Spring Boot Microsoft 365+17 more

AdoptingCopilot Studio

ReplacingJira Service Management

What Skatteetaten Is Building

◆Challenges

Risk of errors in sole proprietorship controls
Digital utvikling av arbeidsprosesser
Complex tax compliance for large conglomerates
Ensuring stability and performance
Strengthen vat compliance in real estate
Komplekse skatte- og avgiftsforhold
Detecting tax evasion in small businesses
Migrating on-prem jira service management to cloud
Digitalizing data sources
Process inefficiencies

▲Active Projects

Control of sole proprietorships
Fremtidens innkreving
Establish new control group
Risk assessment of individual business owners
Digital wallet implementation in norway
Tax control operations
Digital utvikling av arbeidsprosesser
Cloud migration of jira service management
Data-driven collaboration with external partners
Observability platform development

Hiring Activity

Accelerating55 roles · 40 in 30d

Department

Engineering

16

Finance

15

Legal

14

Data

2

Ops

2

Audit

1

HR

1

Product

1

Seniority

Mid

26

Senior

17

Junior

7

Lead

3

Intern

1

Manager

1

Notable leadership hires: Security Lead

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About Skatteetaten

Skatteetaten is Norway's tax and customs administration, responsible for tax collection, compliance oversight, and maintenance of the national registry. The organization serves as the backbone of Norway's public finances through tax return processing, business registration, VAT enforcement, and collection operations. With offices in Oslo and operations spanning multiple countries, the agency combines traditional compliance functions with active software engineering and data capabilities, supporting both internal digital transformation and external digital services for taxpayers and businesses.

HeadquartersOslo

Company Size5,001–10,000 employees

Hiring MarketsNorway, United Kingdom, Nigeria

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Skatteetaten's tech stack?

Core infrastructure: Azure, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka. DevOps/observability: Terraform, ArgoCD, Grafana, Tempo, Splunk. Languages: Python, Go, Java, TypeScript. Actively adopting Copilot Studio; migrating off Jira Service Management to cloud.

What is Skatteetaten working on?

Digital transformation priorities: cloud migration (Jira Service Management), digital wallet implementation, automated tax control operations, and process digitalization. Ongoing projects address risk assessment for business owners, VAT compliance automation, and data-driven external partnerships.