Director, Cloud Architect & Engineer

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KPMG is currently seeking a Director, Cloud Architect & Engineer to join our Global Advisory Group which is part of KPMG International.

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
• Proven ability to translate business priorities and complex technical requirements into practical architecture decisions, implementation approaches, investment recommendations, and sustainable engineering capabilities
• Experience directing application and platform modernization, including cloud migration, Infrastructure as Code, container platforms, APIs, automation, CI/CD, observability, operational resilience, and the transition from proofs of concept into production services
• Working knowledge of enterprise GitHub architecture and engineering, including GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, repository and integration patterns, GitHub Advanced Security, secure software delivery, and GitHub Copilot; deep GitHub expertise is valuable, but GitHub platform ownership is not the primary purpose of this role
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future; KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)
  
  

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