Director, Cloud Architect & Engineer

About the role

Known for being a great place to work and build a career, KPMG provides audit, tax and advisory services for organizations in today's most important industries. Our growth is driven by delivering real results for our clients. It's also enabled by our culture, which encourages individual development, embraces an inclusive environment, rewards innovative excellence and supports our communities. With qualities like those, it's no wonder we're consistently ranked among the best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine, Consulting Magazine, Seramount, Fair360 and others. If you're as passionate about your future as we are, join our team.

Responsibilities

• Shape Global Advisory's technology strategy by establishing the architectural vision and engineering direction across assigned platforms, solution domains, and strategic initiatives
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable solution architectures, technical roadmaps, and integration patterns, providing end-to-end architectural oversight and steering engineering teams through critical design, performance, and integration challenges
• Sponsor proofs of concept to validate high-impact design decisions, defining reusable enterprise standards for automation, containers, APIs, observability, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure prototypes scale into governed, production-ready capabilities
• Identify and navigate architectural risks and technical debt, challenging non-compliant solutions and advising executive leadership on architectural trade-offs, investment priorities, and production readiness
• Partner with the GitHub Platform Owner to deliver architecture and engineering leadership across GitHub Enterprise, including reusable CI/CD workflows, secure delivery pipelines, GitHub Advanced Security, and GitHub Copilot capabilities
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment

Qualifications

• Minimum ten years of recent experience setting cloud architecture and engineering direction for complex enterprise technology environments, with accountability for architecture quality, technical risk, modernization outcomes, and successful production adoption
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
• Demonstrated experience designing and directing scalable, secure, resilient, and production-ready solutions using Microsoft Azure and related cloud, data, integration, container, automation, and Microsoft 365 technologies