Senior Manager - Lead Cloud Architect - Financial Services

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. We have core UK offices in London, Manchester, Leeds and Belfast, and offer a flexible hybrid working model. 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. 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 helps 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 businesses are looking for ways to innovate and transform the markets they serve, we offer our clients industry leading cloud solutions to help with their digital journeys and modernisations.

You will bring your knowledge and deep technology experience to map business challenges to end-to-end cloud technology solutions. At KPMG, you will be part of some very exciting client engagements, lead pre-sales activities/proposals and be responsible for delivering our portfolio of cloud solutions to our clients within the Financial Services sector. 

In this leadership role, you will also inherently lead our brilliant teams, and coach and mentor junior members in their own career progressions.

Role will have the following responsibilities:

• Manage complex, multi-stakeholder advisory and implementation services around cloud platforms
• Lead in architecture, planning and deployment of cloud technology solutions
• Define solutions using architectural design principles based on customer requirements
• Provide implementation guidance based on best practices to an organisation throughout the lifecycle of a project
• 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
• Contribute to developing our market growth in cloud technology, with market facing propositions and assets
• Contribute to our wider capability group by developing services and people

The Person

•    Excellence in consulting skills, with the ability to present complex solutions to business executives

•    Experience of working within Financial Services

•    Proven pre-sales experience, leading client proposals and managing delivery
• Experience in architecting, design, implementation, or operating IT systems on leading commercial Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or Google)
•    Strong leadership skills with proven track record of cloud architecture, strategy or delivery experience in leadership roles

•    Experience in migrations to public cloud including infrastructure sizing and costing, and familiarity with leading migration tools present in the market
• Detailed understanding of infrastructure, network, database, security architecture, IAM for cloud-based solutions
• Experience and understanding of large-scale applications portfolio in enterprise-wide environment (including migration of on-premise workloads to the cloud)
• Experience of technical reviews and assessments, cloud strategy, roadmaps, APIs, containers, cloud data models, cloud integration, and cloud migration tools
• Experience of introducing DevOps ways of working and DevOps Operations Model into an organisation
• Experience in Private Cloud (example VMWare) for datacentre network, firewall, network services, network segmentation, new network arch (spine leaf)
• Knowledge of one or more traditional hosting platforms including Mainframe (e.g. IBM z Series, Unisys, Fujitsu), Midrange / Unix (e.g. IBM Power Series, IBM p Series, IBM i Series, AS400, Oracle / Sun Solaris, HP-UX)
• Embraces a growth mindset for business development, with an ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Collaborative ways of working with clients and KPMG teams
• Self-motivated and able to inspire and motivate others
•    Team player and thrives in a diverse culture

Why KPMG is the place for you

Our culture is built upon helping others and providing them with the tools to work towards success. With a wide range of departments and people of different backgrounds, the experiences you have will be unique and take you on an upwards journey as you expand your career.

We understand that to get the best results for our clients, we need the best people working with them. That is why we offer a generous financial compensation package, including a performance-based bonus and a lucrative pension contribution scheme. 

As a company, we understand the importance of work-life balance and though our goals lie in providing highly rated client services, we also encourage time spent on self-growth and personal beliefs, backed by our annual volunteering days.

We recognise that the employer-employee relationship goes both ways and as such, we will do everything possible to support you along your career path – from senior leadership mentoring to a tailored technical training experience, we will give you the freedom to move in the direction that works best for all of us. 

In addition to this, as a KPMG employee you will have access to a whole host of additional perks and benefits through our Flextra reward gateway, including Private Medical Insurance, access to a 24-hour remote GP service, Travel Insurance, a Cycle2Work scheme and much more.

KPMG’s success is built upon the knowledge and skills of our people which is why we focus on giving you the support you need to succeed and invest in the development of teams. 

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