Job Title: Lead Software Engineer (Any language) - Manager

Base Location: Leeds based (Hybrid – 3 days per week in office) www.kpmg88careers.co.uk/experienced-professional/#LeBlender.OfficeLocations

As a result of the work that we do, we require applicants to hold or be capable of obtaining UK National Security Vetting, the requirements for which could include but not be limited to having resided in the UK for at least the past 5 years and being a UK national or dual UK national.  Please note your application will not be taken forward if you cannot fulfil these requirements. 

The KPMG Technical Engineering function is a cornerstone of our business. We do work that matters to our local business and communities – supporting technical innovation and adoption of cutting edge solutions across the United Kingdom. This team will be responsible for delivering technology enabled outcomes for some of our clients most challenging business issues using modern and best in class engineering methodologies. We drive this transformation through the adoption of Cloud based technologies and have strategic relationships with Google, Microsoft among others. We have a technology agnostic view and select the right tool/language/cloud provider to achieve the best outcome for the client. 

At KPMG, our values define who we are and the way we do business. As a leading professional services firm, we know that our strength and capability comes from our people – their different perspectives, experiences and backgrounds. From our inclusive leadership strategy to our diversity and inclusion targets – we’re making bold changes to who we are and what we do. Be part of it.

KPMG’s national Incentives, Reliefs & Innovations team is made up of tax, engineering, science, and technology specialists delivering expert advice to a broad range of clients across almost every industry sector. As one of the largest teams in the industry, our continued investment in innovation advisory means that we seek technology specialists to join us on the next exciting phase of our growth.

Our team works with clients from owner managed business, to large multinational organisation, and we are looking for a Senior Manager with a strong information technology background to assist clients across a suite of innovation advisory services including R&D tax credits, Patent Box, R&D Allowances, Grants and Innovation Advisory services.

The role of the Cloud Enterprise Architect is to help the Firm deliver its business strategy through technology. This includes providing architecture support to the firm’s Infrastructure Transformation Portfolio and for the Data Centre Exit Programme.  They must therefore translate the business strategy into the equivalent technology strategy; challenge the business strategy based on emerging and future technology trends; help business Capabilities to design and govern their technology roadmap, i.e. a portfolio of technology transformation projects that deliver the business and technology strategies; influence business and technology stakeholders to adopt the right technology solutions; and escalate risks, issues and critical dependencies to the appropriate leaders as required to ensure the successful delivery of the strategy.

Lead Digital Experience Analyst

Role Purpose

KPMG believes that the employee digital experience is essential to the success of the firm. The successful applicant for this role will be contributing to the firm’s increasing efforts towards our team’s core purpose: “(to) Ensure that anticipation of human behaviour leads and improves user experience within the firm”.        

Reporting into the Head of Digital Experiences, the role of a Lead Digital Experience Analyst is to ensure that both the internal KPMG UK Technology function and, where relevant, other functions, deliver an efficient, effective, and consistent employee experience across all touchpoints and at all stages of relevant employee journeys.

Our model is to start with the user experience and progress towards developing solutions with technology SMEs – however digital technology is at the heart of the KPMG UK colleague experience; therefore, an understanding of KPMG UK data and technology solutions is key to Experience success.

The Lead will perform the duties of a User Experience practitioner but will also be responsible for day-to-day oversight of UX activities of other team members across the UK, Bulgaria, and India. Over time the role is expected to grow to include management, training, and growth of team members.

Key Responsibilities              

• Plan and deliver UX contributions to KPMG’s internal initiatives.

• Elicit, collect, track, and analyse feedback and data, and suggest improvements based on the insights gathered.
• Help to focus on generating value through its employee initiatives, with a clear performance and experience focus, ensuring that initiatives rapidly deliver value.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts to support development of agile user stories and formal requirements.
• Work closely with Digital Accessibility SMEs to ensure we meet our legal and ethical responsibilities for supporting colleagues with disabilities and long-term conditions.
• Supporting and challenging Project Management SMEs to ensure that digital transformation projects are effectively scoped, managed & delivered on time, to budget and within agreed KPMG risk frameworks.
• Promote the Digital Experience function in the firm.
• Contribute to the firm’s Digital Experience strategy.
• Oversight of larger UX initiatives, including work allocation, planning, and monitoring of junior UX Analysts.
• Lead Digital Experience reviews of existing or proposed solutions.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience of understanding and applying KPMG EWT Digital Experience strategy and processes
• A strong knowledge of the firm’s internal technology platforms, the resulting User Experience constraints, and strategies to maximise UX within these constraints.
• Demonstrable experience of providing oversight over other UX SMEs work on internal EWT projects.
• Maintain a high level of practical knowledge in the application of Human-Centred Design / User Experience (UX) methods including user research, service design, UI design and branding.
• A strong knowledge of KPMG’s EWT technology development processes.
• Domain experience in two or more of the following: finance & engagement management, HR, User Support, and learning technologies.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity at the beginning of projects, with ability to provide clarity of direction despite this.
• Strong knowledge of Digital Accessibility and how EWT apply this to projects.

Desirable

• Awareness of other value-driven approaches e.g., Lean Six Sigma, Agile, Design Thinking, etc.
• Strong empathy and listening skills; ability to collaborate with

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.