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. 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) KPMG LLP and its subsidiaries (“KPMG”) complies with all local/state regulations regarding displaying salary ranges. 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