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The Team
The Technology Strategy team have a breadth and depth of experience covering Technology, Digital, Project and Programme Management and IT strategy and governance. We are looking for individuals with a similar breadth of experience in one or more of these areas.

We often consult on ERP solutions, cloud computing, applications strategy, application development, applications maintenance and mobile solutions. Our clients may ask us to facilitate solution architecture reviews and roadmap development. In addition, we work with vendors and their products/packages to establish the functional and technical fit.

For project and programme management our teams have experience of managing projects across the full lifecycle of technology enabled transformation programmes.

For IT Strategy and Governance, we provide an assessment of IT Strategy alongside a clear direction and delivery roadmap. We define and implement IT Operating Models for the functional areas of IT and transformational change programmes (including definition of sourcing strategies). Our teams implement IT governance processes or techniques and establish Key Metrics and Balanced Scorecards for managing IT effectiveness.

The role
Joining KPMG means joining a talented team of exceptional colleagues who bring innovative thoughts and a natural curiosity to the work they do each day. No one type of person succeeds at KPMG; a diverse business requires diverse personalities, characters and perspectives. There really is a place for you here.

This role is within our KPMG Private Enterprise (KPE) client base and you can work with start-ups through to large listed businesses and you will work with our clients as a trusted advisor supporting their digital transformation journey and better use of technology.

You will be naturally curious about how the business uses technology, and knowledgeable of how technology can be an enabler to digital transformation.

You will be able to build constructive working relationships across different teams, functions, countries or cultures, and lead and direct our experienced / junior resources and client teams on project.

Business Development
- Helping identify and develop opportunities at new and existing clients where we have the potential to support them.
- Communicating compelling and well thought out solutions to complex problems.
- Building market relevant service offerings to ensure greater visibility and exploitation of key technology opportunities with clients.
- Working with Senior Managers, Directors, Partners and third parties to develop go-to-market propositionsPractice Development
- Contribute to practice management and development, e.g. knowledge sharing, training, proposition development, and knowledge management.
- Build knowledge and capability within the team, delivery and attendance of key training events.
- Helping our junior team members to develop through mentoring in the role of a Performance Manager.The Person
- Passionate about talking to clients on current technology issues and market direction.
- Collaborative ways of working with clients and KPMG teams.
- Recognises the importance of continuous self and team development and actively strives to achieve this.
- Helps others to understand how their work contributes to the overall success of an engagement and the wider firm.
- Motivated degree educated or equivalent individual, with a professional qualification such as PRINCE2, MSP, APM, ITIL, TOGAF.
- Intuitive with advisory skills gained in either a consulting organisation or to internal stakeholders within non-consulting organisations. Experience of working with a large professional services consulting firm is desirable but not essential.
- Creative problem-solving ability whilst working in ambiguous situations.
- Ability to multi-task, prioritise workloads, and manage junior team members.
- Ability to deliver work within tight timescales, to budget and to a high quality.
- Ability to work on own initiative and be a strong team player

KPMG Overview

KPMG is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax, Consulting, Deal Advisory and Technology services. Through the talent of over 17,000 colleagues, we bring our creativity and insight to our clients’ most critical challenges.
With offices across the UK, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals, in virtually every industry imaginable. Our work is often complex, yet our vision is simple: to be the clear choice for our clients, for our people and for the communities we work in.

The Team

Defence Consulting Technology
Technology is an integral part of KPMG’s Defence Consulting practice. We help transform the way CIOs, CTOs and their management teams manage and deliver IT services and wider technology solutions to their customers. We help our clients to understand and exploit the constantly changing technology ecosystem to deliver value, agility and efficiency. In collaboration with other specialists across KPMG, we support our clients through digital transformation and enable them to transform their business through technology-enabled change.
We deliver collaborative team engagements, working together across the wide range of capabilities within our National Security team to help our clients get the best from their IT services. We are growing our team to meet an ever-increasing demand for our market-leading services and are seeking expertise and experience to join us.

National Security
The National Security sector is one of KPMG’s key priority sectors, designated for high growth over the next three years. In order to deliver our exciting growth plans, KPMG are recruiting experienced, market-focused consultants to join this team.
The team are seeking Managers to deliver technology-enabled change activities on National Security engagements and to support KPMG’s growth in this market.
Due to the nature of the work, it is essential for applicants to hold current 'National Security Vetting’ aligned to a National Security organisation.

The Role

• We are seeking talented individuals with experience of leading large-scale transformation in the National Security market to deliver a number of existing and upcoming opportunities, helping our clients to maximise the value from their current IT and broader technology services and shape their future ones for success.
• You will join an established and highly successful National Security practice, with the opportunity to leverage our leading technology methodologies and continue our growth.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience Required
You will have proven experience in helping clients to shape and deliver technology-enabled change that delivers value, agility and efficiency, including:
• Experience leading engagements addressing complex technological issues, with demonstrable results.
• Experience across one or more of the disciplines of business analysis, systems thinking, solution architecture, technical architecture, data architecture and data science.
• Experience bringing a technology perspective to a broad range of client issues, demonstrating how technology can be used to address problems and realise opportunities.
• Proven ability to manage the development and delivery of IT operating models that enable clients to get the most from their technology organisation.
• The ability to develop and implement digital and technology strategies alongside client teams.
• A proven record of providing credible consultancy and advice to clients on how to operate technology in the most effective manner.
• Ability to leverage deep sector knowledge and experience to contextualise solutions to National Security clients with short turnaround times.
• The ability to develop strong client relationships with client personnel at all levels, including senior leaders.
• The intellectual strength and flexibility to rapidly understand complex problems and rationalise these into workable solutions for delivery.
• The knowledge of a variety of different approaches and techniques and the ability to apply them to understand, frame and solve client problems.

Key Responsibilities
As a Manager in our team, we will expect you to:

• Manage projects, or workstreams within a larger programme, consulting with Partners and Directors where appropriate.
• Plan and shape the delivery of engagements, including work plans, timelines, project management and resource allocations.
• Lead the production and contribute significantly to the presentation of client deliverables.
• Work collaboratively with client staff and management, often in joint teams, in the development and delivery of recommendations.
• Work alongside Senior Managers to supervise and develop less experienced team members.
• Contribute significantly to the development of National Security case studies and proposals where required.
• Build and manage relationships with clients on a daily basis.
• Leverage your overarching expertise and network to generate new client opportunities.
• Drive the development of propositions and assets, bringing a National Security perspective to them.
• Take a lead in sharing knowledge and developing relevant skills within our team.
• Be a Performance Manager for junior team members, helping them to develop and progress their careers.

The Role
- Developing lasting client relationships and actively building a network and range of experience to help address client needs
- Provide compelling and well thought out solutions to our clients’ sourcing challengesYou will join a great team and take a proactive role in delivering engagements to senior staff within our clients. You will have the opportunity to provide advice across the Technology sourcing and IT transformation lifecycle from sourcing strategy, operating model development, procurement and transition, in to post deal services and contract value assurance.

Typical client delivery work will include the following activities:
- Leading the development of proposed operating models, sourcing strategies, roadmaps, implementation plans and robust business cases for the functional areas of IT and transformational change programmes
- Assisting clients through the supplier selection process through to procurement and contract signature.
- Leading the development of planned service scope, service levels and establishing the contract and service delivery governance framework for future state operations.
- Supporting the client through the service transition and IT operating model transformation process. Taking on key roles overseeing and managing transformation and transition activities.
- Leading post-contract governance activities including the design of the retained organisation and transition to new ways of working.
- Conducting value assurance reviews of existing service agreements
The Person
- Anticipates the viewpoint of others, listens and addresses concerns
- Builds co-operative relationships and fosters an environment in which everyone’s opinion is valued
- Provides on-going feedback, coaching and mentoring that supports individuals development needs and career aspirations
- Proactively engages in cross-functional communications and sharing of information.
- This role is based within our Financial Services sector however, sector experience is less relevant and we are specifically interested in meeting you if you have the IT sourcing skill-set and capabilities (across the sourcing life-cycle) and with the following backgrounds:
- Industry: sourcing or procurement experience, working in a FTSE 250 organisation.
- Service provider: experience in a service provider environment, typical roles might include Service Delivery Manager, Transition Manager, Solution Manager.
- Consultancy: experience in IT/Sourcing/Service Management.
Essential
- A demonstrable knowledge of the content of outsourcing contracts, best practice in this area and the process for negotiating a sourcing contract.
- A demonstrable knowledge of how technology sourcing and operating models need to adapt as a result of the impact of recent technology changes such as, but not restricted to, Cloud, Agile or Automation
- Experience of system selection, primarily ERP or finance systems.
- Good foundation and understanding of the IT Function of a large organisation.
Desirable
Sound knowledge of one or more of the following services is desirable:
- Infrastructure cloud wrapper
- Hybrid technology / IT skills
- Digital workplace
- Networks and NGN
- DevOps AM
- Operating model and process design

The Team





KPMG’s CIO Advisory practice helps clients transform the way that CIOs and their management teams manage and deliver IT services to their customers by leveraging our capabilities in the following areas:





• IT Effectiveness


• IT Sourcing


• IT Service Management


• Technology Architecture





We are growing our team to meet an ever-increasing demand for our market leading services and are seeking your relevant expertise and experience to join us.





The Role





- Building relationships and actively seeking out the global networks best experts to address client needs


- Communicating compelling and well thought out solutions to complex problems


- Building constructive working relationships across different teams, functions, countries or cultures




You will have three key areas of responsibility:


• Manage complex, multi-stakeholder advisory services around cloud platforms.


• Contribute to developing our market growth in cloud advisory.


• Contribute to our wider capability group by developing services and people.





You are required to use your industry experience and subject matter knowledge as follows:





Client Delivery


• Deliver high quality advisory services which bring insight to complex technology problems.


• Lead engagements and manage schedule and cost budgets.


• Good stakeholder management


• Provide insight across cloud technologies.





Market Development:


• Work with colleagues to identify and translate potential demand into new engagements.


• Understand business problems and identify commercial opportunities for us.


• Manage and coordinate internal risk/engagement management processes.





Capability Development:


• Contribute to the development of a vibrant and profitable Technology Architecture

Capability Group.


• Contribute to the development of market facing propositions and assets.


• Collaborate with colleagues to maximise and share our knowledge and experience.





The Person





- Recognises the importance of continuous self and team development and actively strives to achieve this.




- Helps others to understand how their work contributes to the overall success of an engagement and the wider firm







- Fosters a sense of self belief and confidence in others







- Seeks to understand others motivations







- Supports others to make brave decisions








Essential


- Subject matter expertise and experience from either industry, product or consulting background.




- The ability to deliver high quality cloud strategy and technology architecture work.







- Business development and sales capability.







- Good communication skills and the ability to influence at a senior level.







- A detailed understanding of cloud architectures their challenges and benefits.







- Industry awareness of key methodologies, approaches and market trends, including cloud ready, cloud native, iaas, paas, saas and other as a service options.







- Experience of one or more traditional hosting platforms including Mainframe (e.g. IBM z Series, Unisys, Fujitsu), Midrange / Unix (e.g. IBM Power Series, IBM p Series, IBM i Series, AS400, Oracle / Sun Solaris, HP-UX).







- Experience of public, private and/ hybrid cloud solutions.









Desirable:


- Experience working with working with Gov technology departments.




- Practical experience in delivering large scale, enterprise wide, complex transformations.







- A passion for technology and cloud.







- Desire to deliver to a high standard in a suitable timeframe.







- Self-motivation and ability to inspire and motivate others.







- Experience of: technical reviews and assessments, cloud strategy, cloud architectures, cloud roadmaps, cloud solution design, and related sourcing activities.







- Experience of several of: AWS, Azure, Google, micro services, APIs, containers, cloud data models, cloud integration, and cloud migration tools.

Enterprise Architect (Level B)

The Team
KPMG’s Insurance Technology Enablement practice helps Insurance clients transform the way their technology enables their business strategy and long-term strategic goals. We provide advisory and transformation capabilities to enable our clients to pivot their businesses in the advent of new technology and against the backdrop of unparalleled business disruption. The practice capabilities focus on:

• Technology advisory
• IT Strategy
• Enterprise Architecture
• Systems Integration
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We are growing our team to meet an ever-increasing demand for our market leading services and are seeking your relevant expertise and experience to join us.
Joining KPMG means joining a talented team of exceptional colleagues who bring innovative thoughts and a natural curiosity to the work they do each day. No one type of person succeeds at KPMG; a diverse business requires diverse personalities, characters and perspectives. There really is a place for you here.

The Role
• Building global relationships and actively seeking out the global networks best experts to address client needs
• Communicating compelling and well thought out solutions to complex problems
• Building constructive working relationships across different teams, functions, countries or cultures
• Develop and own mid to senior level executive relationships with clients.
• Develop and own market facing propositions, to drive revenue development for the practice.

You will have three key areas of responsibility:
1. Manage complex, multi-stakeholder advisory services for Insurance technology transformation
2. Contribute to developing our market growth in insurance technology advisory
3. Contribute to our wider capability group by developing services and people.

The Person
You are required to have experience and/or accreditation for Enterprise, Technical & Business Architecture, to perform the following activities:

Client Delivery
• Deliver high quality advisory services which bring insight to complex technology problems.
• Delivery high quality transformation services to support client enterprise strategies
• Determine the enterprise architecture standards and principles and align with the business architecture principles to ensure technology solution enables business benefit.
• Determine the migration and end state architecture principles and document in a comprehensive Enterprise Architecture solution document.
• Provide high level integration design principles for integration with legacy applications.
• Determine key data architecture principles for the new applications and ensure consistency with legacy integration applications.
• Excellent stakeholder management across business and technology

Market Development:
• Work with colleagues to identify and translate potential demand into new engagements.
• Understand business problems and identify commercial opportunities for us. Develop and own market facing propositions
• Proactively drive client relationships within the market, understanding insurance company needs and how KPMG can bring our services to support them.

Capability Development:
• Performance Manage other members of the team, to develop their careers and support the continued development of a vibrant and exciting team culture.
• Be a key part of the Insurance Technology Leadership team, developing our go to market capability.
• Collaborate with colleagues to maximise and share our knowledge and experience.
• Be a steward of KPMG values throughout our internal practice and when leading client engagements.