Lead Specialist, Federal Solutions Architect

About the Role

KPMG Advisory is at the forefront of transformation, offering excellent opportunities for career advancement and expertise development. Our professionals thrive in a collaborative, team-driven culture and benefit from a wealth of learning and career development opportunities, world-class training, and leading market tools. This role is ideal for individuals seeking a firm with strong team connections, impactful work, and flexibility to explore new areas of inspiration and expand capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of secure, multi-cloud and hybrid environments, ensuring all architectures adhere to Zero Trust principles and align with the DoD Architecture.
• Provide subject matter expertise on federal cybersecurity regulations, including the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF), CMMC, and FedRAMP, ensuring solutions are secure and compliant by design.
• Build, mentor, and lead a team of cybersecurity and cloud engineers.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance across core infrastructure domains.
• Architect and implement advanced enterprise networking, virtualization, and containerization (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker) strategies to support secure, scalable, and resilient application deployments.
• Interface directly with senior federal clients, translating complex mission requirements into robust, scalable, and resilient technical solutions.
• Articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• A minimum of five years of experience in systems engineering, cybersecurity, or enterprise architecture; U.S. Federal government consulting experience preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university; Master’s degree preferred.
• Experience with Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) solutions and architectures; ICAM Solutions certification preferred (e.g., Okta, Sailpoint, Ping, CyberArk).
• Deep technical expertise in Microsoft Azure services, security controls, and government-specific environments (e.g., Azure Government).
• Hands-on expertise with Zero Trust-enabling technologies such as SASE, micro-segmentation, software-defined networking, or advanced endpoint protection.
• Experience designing and securing large-scale container orchestration platforms and complex virtualized data centers.
• Ability to travel as required to support firm engagements.
• Must possess a U.S. Government Secret clearance.

Benefits

KPMG offers a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, including:

• A variety of medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Disability and life insurance.
• 401(k) plans.
• A robust suite of personal well-being benefits to support mental health.
• Personal Time Off per fiscal year, based on job classification, standard work hours, and years of service.
• Two annual breaks where employees are not required to use Personal Time Off: one at year-end and another around the July 4th holiday.

Additional details about benefits can be found on the KPMG US Careers site.

Pay

KPMG complies with all local and state regulations regarding salary transparency. Salary ranges are determined based on factors such as applicant skills, job responsibilities, prior relevant experience, degrees, certifications, and market considerations. For city-specific salary ranges outside of California, visit KPMG’s Pay Transparency page.