Senior GCP Transformation Architect & Engineering Lead

KPMG International Cooperative; Bristol; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

KPMG International Cooperative is seeking a senior cloud architect to drive large Google Cloud and hybrid‑cloud transformation programs. The role sets engineering direction from discovery to delivery, ensuring secure, scalable and operation‑ready solutions aligned with measurable business outcomes.

You will own technical direction for major workstreams, design landing zones and platforms, and guide multidisciplinary teams through build, migration, testing and release while contributing to

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading Google Cloud transformation programmes.
• Strong architecture and stakeholder management.
• Security, reliability and cost awareness in cloud designs.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction for major Google Cloud and hybrid‑cloud workstreams, translating priorities into architectures and delivery plans.
• Lead end‑to‑end design across landing zones, networking, identity, security, data and AI platforms, integration, observability, resilience and DR.
• Make and communicate architecture decisions balancing value, security, performance, cost and delivery risk.
• Guide multidisciplinary teams through build, migration, testing, release and early‑life support, maintaining design alignment and quality.
• Contribute to reusable patterns, reference architectures and proposals, coaching architects and engineers.

Skills

Google Cloud Platform

Cloud Architecture

Leadership

Security

Terraform

Git workflows

GKE

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

Git-based workflows

Google Kubernetes Engine

CI/CD tools

Observability tooling

Job description

KPMG International Cooperative is seeking a senior cloud architect to drive large Google Cloud and hybrid‑cloud transformation programs. The role sets engineering direction from discovery to delivery, ensuring secure, scalable and operation‑ready solutions aligned with measurable business outcomes.

You will own technical direction for major workstreams, design landing zones and platforms, and guide multidisciplinary teams through build, migration, testing and release while contributing to