I'm looking for

GCP Cloud Transformation Consultant
The Role
The ideal candidate has knowledge and experience to support the sales, business development and delivery of key projects, build valuable relationships both within KPMG and with clients, and develop strong capabilities through working with senior team members and talented colleagues. With a validated background, the candidate has to prove an extensive expertise in multi-cloud platforms and GCP experience is critical.
The Team
CloudOps team is responsible to advise, to architect, to design, and to implement cloud solutions and advisory services for our valued KPMG clients. In this role, you will be delivering the following key outcomes: increasing business revenue, developing new opportunities, and ensuring the high delivery standards.
The most important aspect of this specific role will be to actively lead business development, taking ownership of value propositions and accounts:
1. Support the sales process via discovery, solution architecture, PoCs, workshops.
2. Analyse client problem statements/requirements and present the proposed solution at the right level.
3. Build long-term trusted advisor relationships with clients, engage continuously with the key clients during the sales process.
4. Identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities, engage the broader KPMG practices to assemble the right team to cater to the client’s needs.
5. Collaborate with the KPMG alliance partners to build solutions, tech pre-sales capabilities, and training and joint business development to win more business.
Lead and Deliver Cloud/DevOps engagements in the following areas
1. Meet delivery milestones managing risk, budget and client relationship
2. Governance, Compliance assessments and reporting
3. Strong Cloud Strategy, Architecture and implementation experience, gained from multi-project implementations
4. Define and deliver target operating models
5. Cloud cost optimisation and management frameworks
6. Validate and assess security in cloud, automated security controls implementations
7. System selection and implementation pipelines using automation
8. Application architecture in cloud review and simplification
9. Security posture assessments and remediation
10. Data strategies migration to cloud that maximise client return on investment
Contribute to Practice Development to scale our CloudOps capability in relation with Google Cloud adoption, with excellent quality
1. Working with the current team to deliver valued artefacts and to be a real influencer in the GCP space.
2. Contribute to the development of high-quality technical architecture artefacts.
3. Design and build the cloud platforms in Google (primarily), AWS and Azure to enable innovation and to on-board client projects.
4. Coach and train the lower grades and junior consultants on the technical and consulting skills.
5. Develop and extend KPMG alliance and partnership with google.

The Person
Cloud is a key growth area for us and we’re looking for exceptional consultants the following skills:
• Strong experience in enterprise Google Cloud Platform Architecture and implementation.
• Expert level in Kubernetes/container management platform, Terraform, Python, Cloud storage, Big Data GCP services, open-source CI/CD technologies and GCP native services.
• Experience in architecting and implementing multi-cloud solutions. Google Anthos experience is added advantage for this role.
• Proven experience in managing delivery including scope, risks, budgets and client relationships,
• Experience in delivering cloud and DevOps solution part of digital transformation.
• Strong business development skills, client relationship and presentation skills.
• Communication and strong interpersonal abilities and ability to develop impactful presentations
• Professional Certification from one or more major cloud providers – preferably GCP.

The Team

Within KPMG's Technology & Engineering team, the Cloud Engineering mission is to be the best cloud team ever by doing the right thing, using the right tools, failing fast and automating like our lives depend on it.

We operate at genuine scale partnering the big three public cloud providers and have our own private cloud to deliver cutting edge solutions to clients on a global stage. If the public cloud is your future and you’re amazing at solving difficult, interesting and complex challenges and actually writing code, roll up your sleeves then drop us a line and remember to bring cake when you meet us.


You will be working to continuously advance and standardise our clients infrastructure and deployments, whilst collaborating with colleagues to write infrastructure as code that scales and takes advantage of the technologies used.

The Role
• Help design and build monitoring systems, metrics, internal dashboards, and other tools that allow KPMG clients to become increasingly, scalable, and reliable infrastructure.
• Continue to cultivate a culture of collaboration, innovation and bringing industry standards to everything we do.
• You understand the fundamentals: Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure, Private), Windows, Linux, Security and Networking.
• An ability to automate processes.


The Person

• Cloud Technologies exposure (AWS, Azure, Private), Windows, Linux, Security and Networking.
• You will have used the following - Python, Nodejs, C#, Cloudformation Templating, Ansible / Salt, Octopus, Team City / Jenkins
• You have experience building highly scalable, secure, efficient, and resilient systems.
• Ability to continuously learn, work independently, and make decisions with minimal supervision.
• You like nothing more than to watch colleagues flourish under your guidance.
• You love steering a very willing team to increase performance and efficiency.
• Be a technological cloud advocate to a wider audience inside and outside of the business.


What we can offer
• Scale, some of our clients are well known global brands, their infrastructure isn't small.
• A great team environment, inside and outside of the work place.
• Love of technology and learning about even newer technology to help our clients be successful.
• Flexible and considerate working hours.
• Access to regular training opportunities and certification which can include Internal, AWS and Pluralsight.
• Generous pay and benefits such as a subsidised lunch, health care, pension, cycle to work, free day off to celebrate your birthday.
• Excellent relationship with vendors and access to authorities within their field.

Tired of just bolting in Salesforce? Yearning to get back to actually addressing a client’s Customer needs? Ambitious to help build a team that combines the best advice with the best technology enablement? Learnt that you want to shape a business where quality wins over volume, where driving real strategic client change is more important than landing the tactical transaction?

So join KPMG’s rapidly growing Powered applications business and the Salesforce team to support business development and project delivery activity and help put Salesforce into the strategic hearts of our clients.

Powered Enterprise Team

KPMG are business integrators not system integrators. We combine deep insight of the future of industry with a unique perspective on what change is needed to build a Connected Enterprise. Through our Powered Enterprise approach we deliver accelerated enterprise business transformation using cloud-based solutions, pre-designed assets and leading practices to enable our clients to make better, faster decisions, resulting in a quicker, more outcome focused implementations with faster return on investment. Our approach and solutions combines the breadth and scale of KPMG’s leading advisory and technology practices, capabilities and insight to drive real transformation, real change, real outcomes.

You will join the KPMG Powered Enterprise teams, communities of technology focussed professionals who work together to deliver this change, sharing modern engineering enablement and smart automation engineering to optimize delivery and speed to outcome. These teams have deep functional knowledge and experience across our client’s core business functions, combined with deep technical skills to lead and deliver business outcome led high quality client solutions. Our management consultants and our technology consultants are the same – client focused, functional advice combined with technology enablement, one team, one dialogue, driving change and outcomes.

Powered Customer Role

We need talented individuals with experience of Salesforce implementations but importantly want to be involved in the strategic not the tactical, selling and delivering iteratively to deliver continuous and sustainable outcomes. This is a high profile role within the team, requiring a balance of business development, sales origination and client delivery.

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• As an Engagement Manager, lead the delivery of high quality Salesforce projects
• Provide specialist Salesforce advice and work closely with the client leads to optimise processes and maximise the benefits of Salesforce
• Advise clients on the transformational aspects of Salesforce in relation to Customer operating model, sales, service and marketing process execution
• Contribute to business development and sales initiatives including bid, proposal and contract / commercial negotiations with our Customer clients
• Lead the growth of the Salesforce practice through sharing knowledge, developing thought leadership and supporting the career aspirations of team members
• Advise on technical integration of the Salesforce application with other client and 3rd party applications
• Advise on data migration and data integrity as part of the deployment engagement

The Person

• Proven Engagement Management experience
• Multiple Salesforce certifications
• Experience leading local and distributed teams effectively to ensure the most efficient delivery for the client
• Proven relationship-building and influencing skills
• Facilitation and problem solving skills
• Salesforce agile and lean design, development, deployment and adoption experience
• Business analysis and requirements gathering abilities
• Detailed working knowledge of how Customer experience improvements can be delivered at the process level
• Ability to effectively transfer knowledge and flex the approach according to the situation
• Proven ability to collaborate and build strong relationships with varying team members
• Strong functional knowledge of in Sales, Service or Marketing Clouds
• Experience with Salesforce Financial Services Cloud, Vlocity and Ncino preferable
• Experience as a configuration expert and/or project manager of enterprise software deployments
• Travel required (up to 80%)

Tired of just bolting in Salesforce? Yearning to get back to actually addressing a client’s Customer needs? Ambitious to help build a team that combines the best advice with the best technology enablement? Learnt that you want to shape a business where quality wins over volume, where driving real strategic client change is more important than landing the tactical transaction?

So join KPMG’s rapidly growing Powered applications business and the Salesforce team to support business development and project delivery activity and help put Salesforce into the strategic hearts of our clients.

Powered Enterprise Team

KPMG are business integrators not system integrators. We combine deep insight of the future of industry with a unique perspective on what change is needed to build a Connected Enterprise. Through our Powered Enterprise approach we deliver accelerated enterprise business transformation using cloud-based solutions, pre-designed assets and leading practices to enable our clients to make better, faster decisions, resulting in a quicker, more outcome focused implementations with faster return on investment. Our approach and solutions combines the breadth and scale of KPMG’s leading advisory and technology practices, capabilities and insight to drive real transformation, real change, real outcomes.

You will join the KPMG Powered Enterprise teams, communities of technology focussed professionals who work together to deliver this change, sharing modern engineering enablement and smart automation engineering to optimize delivery and speed to outcome. These teams have deep functional knowledge and experience across our client’s core business functions, combined with deep technical skills to lead and deliver business outcome led high quality client solutions. Our management consultants and our technology consultants are the same – client focused, functional advice combined with technology enablement, one team, one dialogue, driving change and outcomes.

Powered Customer Role

We need talented individuals with experience of Salesforce implementations but importantly want to be involved in the strategic not the tactical, selling and delivering iteratively to deliver continuous and sustainable outcomes. This is a high profile role within the team, requiring a balance of business development, sales origination and client delivery.

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• As an Engagement Manager, lead the delivery of high quality Salesforce projects
• Provide specialist Salesforce advice and work closely with the client leads to optimise processes and maximise the benefits of Salesforce
• Advise clients on the transformational aspects of Salesforce in relation to Customer operating model, sales, service and marketing process execution
• Contribute to business development and sales initiatives including bid, proposal and contract / commercial negotiations with our Customer clients
• Lead the growth of the Salesforce practice through sharing knowledge, developing thought leadership and supporting the career aspirations of team members
• Advise on technical integration of the Salesforce application with other client and 3rd party applications
• Advise on data migration and data integrity as part of the deployment engagement

The Person

• Proven Engagement Management experience
• Multiple Salesforce certifications
• Experience leading local and distributed teams effectively to ensure the most efficient delivery for the client
• Proven relationship-building and influencing skills
• Facilitation and problem solving skills
• Salesforce agile and lean design, development, deployment and adoption experience
• Business analysis and requirements gathering abilities
• Detailed working knowledge of how Customer experience improvements can be delivered at the process level
• Ability to effectively transfer knowledge and flex the approach according to the situation
• Proven ability to collaborate and build strong relationships with varying team members
• Strong functional knowledge of in Sales, Service or Marketing Clouds
• Experience with Salesforce Financial Services Cloud, Vlocity and Ncino preferable
• Experience as a configuration expert and/or project manager of enterprise software deployments
• Travel required (up to 80%)