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KPMG Overview
KPMG is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax & Pensions, Consulting, Deal Advisory and Technology services. Through the talent of over 16,000 colleagues, we bring our creativity and insight to our clients’ most critical challenges.
With offices across the UK, and around the globe, 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.

Location
We have learnt during the recent global situation that remote working can, and has, worked for our world-class advisory teams. Whilst we have core UK offices (London, Manchester, Leeds and Belfast) we are open to remote workers within a sensible vicinity to one of our 21 UK offices with a view to being onsite for a couple of days a week when offices re-open as normal. Post-pandemic, there may be travel required to client site.

The Team
KPMG’s Cloud Transformation practice is an award-winning team of over 50 consultants that helps clients transform the way CIOs and their teams deliver technology services to their business stakeholders. Our team help the UK’s largest and most complex organisations develop cloud strategies, build the operating models, architectures and capabilities to deliver value from cloud, and operate their cloud or hybrid estates effectively and cost-efficiently.

To support our clients, we use KPMG’s deep industry insights, C-suite relationships, cloud architecture capabilities, alliances and accelerators ranging from our cloud value labs, KPMG Cloud Cost Management models, Cloud controls frameworks and landing zones. Our 350+ strong engineering teams implement these strategies and solutions – sitting at the heart of major transformations across the UK, helping technology executives convert business strategy into compelling technology outcomes.

With the pandemic having a profound impact on the business models and priorities of our clients we are rapidly growing our team, focusing both on advisory and the implementation of our cloud services. The work is rewarding and complex and the team diverse and engaging.

The Role
As an experienced consultant in cloud services, you will be helping clients in their cloud transformation journeys and will join our highly talented and passionate cloud technology team. You will be at the forefront of some of the most exciting, complex and leading-edge transformation work in the UK and likely in Europe. At KPMG, your primary responsibility will be to understand the clients’ growth ambitions, their pain points and provide them with compelling solutions from our wide portfolio of Cloud offerings across markets.

The Cloud Consultant role requires:
• Focussing your sound technical skills to analyse clients’ cloud transformation opportunities, and provide relevant and practical solutions to address those needs
• Communicating well thought recommendations on architecture, delivery, tooling, costs and cloud operating models
• Build relationships and be a trusted advisor to the C-suite leaders at our clients, focusing on cloud and more broadly at their technology journey
• Manage complex, multi-stakeholder advisory services across the full scope of helping our clients’ transition to Cloud platforms, or unlocking the full potential of cloud
• Collaboration with the wider teams to define market-leading, client-focused Cloud propositions
• Contribute to building a strong team and embrace diversity

The Person
• Possess experience managing complex clients
• Successful track record and experience in professional consulting services with the ability to communicate cloud solutions effectively to stakeholders at all levels in client organisations
• Experience in architecting, design, implementation, or operating IT systems on leading commercial Cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and Google
• Detailed understanding of infrastructure, network, database, security architecture, IAM for cloud-based solutions
• Experience of technical reviews and assessments, cloud strategy, cloud architectures, cloud roadmaps, cloud solution design, and related sourcing activities
• Experience doing migrations to public cloud including infrastructure sizing and costing, and familiarity with leading migration tools present in the market
• Knowledgeable in several of: AWS, Azure, Google, micro services, APIs, containers, cloud data models, cloud integration, and cloud migration patterns like rehost, refactor, rearchitect
• Sound understanding of virtualization and hypervisors
• Knowledge of DevOps approaches and working practices
• Deliver high quality advisory services, lead engagements, manage schedule and budgets
• Collaborative ways of working with clients and KPMG teams
• Good analytical and problem-solving skillsets
• Excellent ability to work on own initiative and be a strong team player

The Team:
The Technology Strategy team have a breadth and depth of experience covering Technology, 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.


Roles and Responsibilities

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 Directors, Partners and third parties to develop go-to-market propositions Practice Development
- Contribute to practice management and development, e.g. knowledge sharing, training, proposition development, and knowledge management.
- Helping our junior team members to develop through mentoring and monitoring in the role of a Performance Manager.
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.
- Motivated degree educated individual, with a professional qualification such as PRINCE2, MSP, APM, ITIL, TOGAF.
- Intuitive, self-starter with extensive experience of working with a large professional services consulting firm to lead teams and client engagements and win new business.
- Experienced in delivering IT Strategy, Process Design, and Technology projects.
- Passionate about talking to clients on current technology issues and market direction.
- Collaborative ways of working with clients and KPMG teams.
- Excellent ability to multi-task, prioritise workloads, and manage junior team members.
- Excellent ability to deliver work within tight timescales, to budget and to a high quality.
- Excellent ability to work on own initiative and be a strong team player.

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

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

Location


We have learnt during the recent global situation that remote working can, and has, worked for our world-class advisory teams. Whilst we have three core offices (London, Manchester and Leeds) we are open to remote workers within a sensible vicinity to one of our 21 UK offices with a view to being onsite at least one day per week. Post-pandemic, there may be travel required to client site.



The Team



KPMG’s Cloud Transformation practice is an award-winning team of over 50 consultants that helps clients transform the way CIOs and their teams deliver technology services to their business stakeholders.



Our team help the UK’s largest and most complex organisations develop cloud strategies, build the operating models, architectures and capabilities to deliver value from cloud, and operate their cloud or hybrid estates effectively and cost-efficiently. We use KPMG’s deep industry insights, C-suite relationships, cloud architecture capabilities, alliances and cloud adoption accelerators ranging from our cloud value labs and KPMG Cloud Cost Management models to our controls frameworks and landing zones.



We work with our 200+ strong engineering teams to implement these strategies and solutions – sitting at the heart of major transformations across the UK, helping technology executives convert business strategy into compelling technology outcomes.



COVID has accelerated the demand for our services and need to rapidly grow the team, we need Senior Architects that are comfortable engaging with C-suite leaders across Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare using expertise in one or more of the following disciplines.




Cloud Strategy




Cloud (IaaS / PaaS) Solutions architecture




Infrastructure architecture




Applications architecture




IGH Market


KPMG’s Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare (IGH) practice is at the forefront of helping to define and transform key public services for the United Kingdom. We are working with clients to shape public policy and develop new approaches to delivering better quality services in a digital age. Our work is helping national and local government to define how services will be delivered to people across the country; our work covers a wide spectrum of public services including health care, education, offender management, policing, border security, transport, international trade, and services for agriculture, food and the environment as well as services for employment and tax/benefits management




The Role



Senior architects are required to use their industry experience and subject matter knowledge to provide services in the following areas:



Market Development




Working with colleagues to identify and develop specific engagement opportunities translating potential demand into new engagements




Developing strong client relationships, understanding business problems and identifying commercial opportunities for KPMG




Managing and coordinating internal risk/engagement management processes, developing high level plans, budget calculators, attending Deal Boards and gaining approval to start work.




Client Delivery




Leading engagements; delivering to time, cost and quality




Good stakeholder management; managing expectations and gaining support




Provide insight across a range of technology areas




Capability Development




Contributing to the development of a vibrant and profitable architecture capability group




Working with colleagues to maximise our knowledge and experience. Harvesting approaches and credentials




Sharing knowledge, coaching and advising colleagues.







The Person




Required




Expert understanding of relevant government standards, policies and procedures



Extensive experience of designing and delivering architectures in-line with Government Digital Service policies and standards for various Infrastructure, government and healthcare clients



Proven skills in Enterprise or Cloud architecture including defining or utilising TOGAF, or industry equivalent, standards as well as Agile delivery methodologies



Previous experience of working on large complex, multi-year, business and technology transformation programmes in an advisory / consulting capacity



Typically, candidates would have a proven track record of working with IGH clients at a Skills For The Information Age levels 6 and 7 – Initiate/Influence and Set Strategy/Inspire



Extensive experience working in a collaborative way with multiple capabilities from DevOps to Data Science



Experience with Digital and Cloud migration from “On Prem” to Public Cloud or Multi-Cloud platforms



Ability to have deep technical level discussions with engineers, to explaining the business benefits of a range of technologies to non-technical partners and clients who have business issues to overcome



Ability to build new and leverage existing client relationships to drive Cloud Architecture business



Excellent stakeholder management and relationship skills at C suite level both internally and client facing



Experience of common Operating Systems, Networking concepts, Databases, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS services.



Security first – How to design, migrate and embed security control’s in Cloud solutions



Desirable


Good knowledge of Well Architected Frameworks across the three major cloud providers



Extensive hands on experience with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and/or GCP



Curious and always willing to learn



Passionate about sharing knowledge both internally as well as publicly representing the KPMG Connected Technology brand



What we can offer




Scale, some of our clients are well known, their infrastructure isn't small!




Alliance relationships with AWS/Azure/GCP - Work with the product owners directly and help build their roadmap




Paid certifications and training




Flexible and considerate working hours and locations




Access to regular training opportunities, attending conferences and certification support is encouraged




Market equal pay and benefits such as a subsidised lunch, health care, pension, cycle to work and a free day off to celebrate your birthday





Service Line Information



The Connected Technology team services the broader Firm through delivery of core technology and managed services capabilities, collaboration and innovation development services and building our Alliances network.




KPMG Overview



KPMG is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax & Pensions, Consulting, Deal Advisory and Technology services. Through the talent of over 16,000 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.