Azure Cloud Architect

Key Responsibilities

Governance & Assurance: Lead engagements with solution governance forums (including ARB), ensuring designs meet architectural standards, risk controls, and compliance requirements.

Estimation & Planning: Provide enterprise-level estimation oversight across infrastructure, licensing, effort, and integration complexity; assure architectural feasibility across multiproject programs.

Executive & Stakeholder Engagement: Influence senior business and technology leaders by articulating architectural options, risk considerations, and strategic trade-offs.

Continuous Improvement & Thought Leadership: Drive uplift of cloud delivery practices, contribute to reusable patterns and accelerators, and maintain awareness of market and cloud technology advancements.

Required Skills & Experience

5+ years experience in cloud or solution architecture roles within large-scale or regulated environments.

Deep expertise across major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) covering compute, identity, networking, integration, automation, and security controls.

Azure mandatory

Strong capability in IaC and cloud automation frameworks (Terraform, Bicep, ARM, CloudFormation).

Demonstrated experience governing endtoend solution designs and mentoring architects and engineering teams.

Excellent communication skills with ability to engage senior executives and governance bodies.

Preferred Qualifications

Professional cloud certifications (AWS SA Professional, Azure Architect Expert, GCP PCA).

Azure Architect Expert highly regarded/expected

TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification.

Background in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform architecture.

KPMG Expectations

Uphold KPMG values and contribute to an inclusive, highperformance culture.

Support development of architecture frameworks, reusable patterns, and industry-leading delivery approaches.

Champion risk-aware design practices and ensure solutions meet KPMG's security, privacy, and audit requirements.