Role: Audit Solution Architect (103665)
Base Location: Canary Wharf, London plus network of 20 offices nationally:

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The KPMG Enterprise Wide Technology Enterprise-Wide Technology (EWT) is an internally facing, dedicated team of over 450 technologists and other specialists, focused on keeping technology running seamlessly for everyone in KPMG.

As an Audit Solutions Architect you will be a key member of the Audit Technology Architecture team, delivering project based technical design artefacts. You will work with business stakeholders and colleagues to develop solutions and services that enable our Audit practice to deliver industry leading service to our clients.

KPMG is one of the world's largest and most respected consultancies. We've supported the UK through times of war and peace, prosperity and recession, political and regulatory upheaval. We've proudly stood beside the institutions and businesses which make the UK what it is.

What you would be doing?

• Working with a wide range of different roles and disciplines, e.g. technical managers, leads, architecture review board, test manager, programme and project managers etc to achieve the desired business outcomes
• Accountability for design materials required for the successful delivery of new solutions and working with relevant team members to ensure they are transitioned into build activities appropriately.
• Cost effective and commercially aware budgetary control and management for the recommendations made / designs provided

Key responsibilities

• The Audit Solutions Architect will take responsibility for the delivery of assigned projects as part of the Audit technology portfolio of work.
• They will work with technical SMEs to guide the production of appropriate engineering level documentation and to support delivery and are accountable for ensuring the Solution will be in line with business expectations and fit within the overall technology roadmap.
• Lead the implementation and deployment of Azure solutions, working closely with development / project teams. Ensure that the architecture is implemented correctly, and provide technical oversight throughout the process.
• Supporting other team members in their dialogue with the business to Input into the creation of business cases and budgetary forecasts to project estimates as required.

What will you need to do?

• A passion for Architecture, with at least 6 months experience operating in a design capacity.
• Ability to identify opportunities for technical efficiency and implement within agreed solutions
• Demonstrable experience of deploying services within Azure
• Significant experience working with MS technologies (Windows server, SQL, AD, DNS, File Services, Clustering, …)
• Strong understanding of cloud computing concepts, infrastructure-as-code, PowerShell and DevOps principles
• Demonstrable awareness of systems thinking (considering all aspects of a solution when deploying, such as security and cost considerations with a view to continual improvement)
• M365 Technologies such as Power BI, Power Platform, SharePoint Online
• Azure Technologies such as Azure AD, Azure App Gateway, Azure SQL, Azure VMs etc
• Networking technologies in both on-prem and cloud contexts
• Identity Management
• Overall Microsoft toolsets/

The role of the Enterprise Architect Tooling Specialist is to develop the UK Firm’s technology strategy for ServiceNow and translate this into a roadmap that determines our investment priorities and transformation portfolio. The technology strategy needs to promote a seamless, end-to-end customer and employee experience by enabling the efficient creation and modification of effective and reusable technology components. In particular, the strategy should promote the use of modern, Cloud-based technologies; support typical ServiceNow use cases; create an operating model that satisfies the demands of the business for design, development, testing and release of new technologies; and establish a catalogue that supports the reuse of new technology components, whilst targeting legacy applications and technology for decommissioning. The ServiceNow Enterprise Architect should also help to execute and govern the strategy, by helping solution architects and projects to design solutions that are fit for purpose and conform to our standards and patterns.

The role of the Technology Operating Model Design Architect is to significantly contribute towards efforts to improve, and create alignment between, the business and technology functions within KPMG to ensure that the Firm can execute its strategy and achieve its primary goals. The Enterprise Business Architect must therefore have a good understanding of both business and technology strategy and concepts; requirements and designs; their mutual dependencies and impacts on one another; and an understanding of technology transformation and project management disciplines to create practical and feasible plans that deliver on the Firm’s primary goals.

The Vendor Management team is part of the Technology Business Management function within Enterprise-Wide Technology (EWT) reporting to the Commercial & Vendor Management Lead.  The team is responsible for the day-to-day management of EWT major Tier 1 and 2 Vendors including key Managed Services Outsourcing contracts and Software deals. The team works closely with the EWT Senior Leadership and IT Procurement Teams, inputting into the overall IT Sourcing strategy which underpins EWT and KPMG Business Strategy.

The EWT Senior Vendor Manager will play a pivotal role in driving value, innovation and delivery assurance to realise the commercial strategy and financial control with our key vendors.

The role will be a key interface between the EWT Service Ops and Platform Engineering teams, who are responsible for operationalising the services delivered by the Vendors and KPMG Technology Procurement who play a key role in the contracting process.