The Data Architect is responsible for supporting the development and operation of KPMG’s enterprise data architecture practice. The role combines hands-on data architecture and data modelling expertise with stakeholder engagement, governance support, and assurance of data deliverables across internal technology projects.

Join KPMG’s Global Business Services consulting team to help leading organisations redesign and modernise the way business services are delivered. In this senior role, you will lead complex engagements across the full Global Business Services lifecycle, from strategy and business cases to operating model design, implementation and optimisation. You will shape next-generation, artificial intelligence-enabled solutions, develop KPMG’s Agentic Global Business Services proposition and build trusted relationships with senior clients across priority markets. This is an opportunity to influence a growing practice, collaborate with UK and international teams, and create practical solutions that deliver sustainable enterprise value.

Lead the technical direction of complex Google Cloud and hybrid-cloud transformations, turning client priorities into secure, resilient and scalable solutions. You will guide work from discovery and architecture through build, migration, release and early-life support, working with specialists across platform engineering, cyber security, data, operating models and change. Your contribution will strengthen technical quality, delivery confidence and measurable business outcomes while also shaping proposals, reusable engineering assets and future opportunities. This role offers the scope to influence senior stakeholders, solve challenging enterprise problems and develop architects and engineers through practical technical leadership. 

Director, Business Solution & Service Design

• Grade: A
• Capability: Audit
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Team: Innovation & Deployment
• Sub-Team: Solutioning (Product Lifecycle)
• Experience Level: Director
• Location: Canary Wharf or UK-wide

Job Summary

KPMG Audit Technology is building a world-class product organisation. We are looking for a visionary, business-outcome-focused leader to establish and run our new Business Solution & Service Design function. This is a critical team that will ensure we build a cohesive, user-centric, and rationalised product portfolio, transforming our technology landscape from a collection of fragmented, siloed applications into a service-oriented ecosystem designed around value streams.

The Director, Business Solution & Service Design is the senior Product counterpart to the technical architecture team within Engineering. This role is responsible for shaping and leading strategic business initiatives through a business capability, value stream, and user-experience lens. While highly technically literate, this role is decisively business-outcome focused. You will act as the primary bridge, ensuring that business capabilities, operational workflows, and logical data needs are clearly defined, mapped, and translated into logical blueprints that Engineering's technical architects can seamlessly execute.

The ideal candidate will champion robust service design principles, drive application rationalisation based on business utility, and ensure our product roadmap is optimised to deliver seamless end-to-end user journeys. Professional Services experience, and preferably knowledge of Audit within the Big 4, is essential. 

We are looking for early career Hybrid Platform Architects / Systems Engineers that are comfortable providing advice and delivering to senior client technologists across our whole client base but, in particular, this role will be aligned to our well-established National Security team.

National Security
The National Security sector is one of KPMG’s key priority sectors. 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.

Enterprises, when starting on their modernisation journey, often imagine that they will simplify their environment. The reality for many, however, is that adoption of technologies such as cloud adds additional technologies and capabilities, drives divergence in operating models, often splits business processes across multiple tech stacks in different landing zones and, overall, adds significant complexity to the enterprise estate.

You must help make sense of this new complexity, and be able to tame it through judicious use of both old and new technologies coupled with “hybrid” processes that address the needs of both the legacy and the new platform environments. You will have knowledge of both the traditional enterprise landscape, as well as an appreciation of the major cloud platforms and the opportunities, capabilities and pitfalls they present. You will be responsible for helping KPMG to clarify client problems and assist the development of logical and implementable solutions to those problems through robust analysis.