Director - Cloud Transformation

JR United Kingdom; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

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KPMG UK

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England, United Kingdom

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Other

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Yes

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Posted:

13.04.2025

Expiry Date:

28.05.2025

Job Description:

You will be a client-facing Director with a leadership role in the team and helping to grow our Cloud practice in the Sectors market. This role is critical in achieving our vision of growth and being the most trusted with our clients. You will be helping clients understand the benefits of public cloud adoption, modern Engineering practices, great Human Centred Design and the best in workflow and process automation.

What you’ll do

• Provide leadership on client engagements including technical leadership whilst being accountable for the team in delivering solutions for clients.
• Risk management - identifying and managing risks, engagement assurance and commercial risk management and ensuring the Firm's frameworks are implemented appropriately and effectively.
• People development – you will be leading large, diverse teams of highly technical individuals. The development of our people is critical to our success and you’ll play a key role.
• Business Development - Educate clients, both internal and external, on the benefits and value proposition of modern digital practices, in particular Engineering for Public Cloud.
• Lead on activities such as responses to client requests, building proposals, running pitches.
• Work across and build relationships with the major cloud providers like Microsoft, Google and AWS.
• Help define and drive the strategy of the Automation & Engineering Capability.
• Continuously learn and develop yourself, keeping up to date with the latest market trends and bringing your knowledge to bear with our clients.
• Advocate, educate and transform the brand perception of KPMG ensuring we are known as one of the best Automation and Engineering advisory and implementation firms.

What you’ll have for sure

• A strong leader, recognising the importance of our people and their development, support and nurture them and lead them in excellence in our delivery.
• History of successful technical consulting or architecture engagements with large-scale enterprises and customers either internal and external.
• Significant experience in Engineering disciplines such as managing an agile infrastructure in the cloud, building and running software, agile methodologies etc.
• Strong hands-on experience in efficiently hosting scaled applications in the cloud. Experience with leading teams in delivering services on either AWS, Azure or GCP is highly desired.
• Great presentation and persuasion skills with both executives and developers. Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Strong written communication and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.

What we’d love you to have as well but it's not a deal-breaker

• Consulting experience within a technology-focused organisation or division.
• Experience of running highly distributed, high-criticality systems following DevOps and Agile methodologies such as Scrum/Kanban.
• Good understanding of the Financial Services market.
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy solutions to the cloud.
• Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries.
• Experience with Automation around things like workflow, infrastructure, processes etc.

What we can offer

• Generous pay and benefits such as a subsidised lunch, health care, pension, cycle to work, free day off to celebrate your birthday.
• An amazing, fun team of highly talented engineers to work with.
• Scale – work with some of the biggest businesses in the world on solutions that really matter to them.
• Flexible and considerate working hours.
• Excellent relationship with vendors and access to authorities within their field.
• A genuine love for technology and a commitment to learn about the latest and greatest in the industry.

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