Platform Architect

The world of global advisory audit and tax compliance services for large multi-nationals is rapidly changing and heavily dependent on technology.

KPMG Delivery Network (KDN) is a global organization that supports KPMG member firms in delivering global priority solutions to their clients across a number of different industries. KDN helps to enable growth improve economies of scale and discover new ways of collaboration and working.

Youll be a part of the KPMG family working alongside some of our professions most skilled practitioners on rewarding programs and initiatives that are changing the way business operates delivering value to KPMGs clients and driving positive change in the communities we serve.

Youll be assisting KDN to accelerate new ways of working using cutting-edge technology and working together with our member firms located in nearly 150 countries to help us achieve our ambition to be the most trusted and trustworthy professional services firm.

As the KDN Platform Architect you will own the platform architecture for KDNs in-house Microsoft technology stack defining the standards reference architectures and design patterns that govern how platforms are built integrated and evolved across the organisation.

KDNs flagship platform is Solarisa zero-trust event-driven data and AI ecosystem built on Azure (AKS Service Bus Event Hubs Microsoft Fabric Azure AI services). Your role is to ensure architectural coherence across the platforms cloud infrastructure messaging layer data lakehouse and AI/ML components. You will lead design reviews set non-functional requirements define technology selection criteria and maintain platform architecture artefacts that are used in Design Authority governance.

Responsibilities:

• Platform Architecture - Define and maintain platform reference architectures design patterns and non-functional requirements for KDNs Microsoft technology stack. Cover cloud infrastructure (Azure landing zones AKS networking identity) messaging and integration (Service Bus Event Hubs Schema Registry API Management) data platform (Microsoft Fabric OneLake medallion architecture) and AI/ML components (Azure AI services vector stores MLOps). Ensure patterns address scalability security resilience and cost governance
• Solution design - Lead platform design reviews and architecture assurance for delivery teams (KPMG India Technology AI Labs delivery centres). Review solution designs against reference architectures assess deviations and provide architectural guidance. Ensure delivery outputs conform to enterprise standards before progressing through environment gates (Dev Test Stage Prod)
• EA Artefacts - Maintain platform architecture artefacts in LeanIX and the EA standards registry: IT component fact sheets technology standards reference architecture documents and architecture decision records (ADRs). Ensure platform landscape views are current and used as the authoritative source in Design Authority forums
• Roadmap & evaluation - Define technology selection criteria and evaluate platform options for new capabilities as KDNs enterprise application portfolio expands. Contribute to build-vs-buy assessments vendor evaluations and platform roadmap planning. Ensure alignment with KDNs principles: build for differentiation buy for commodity.
• Governance - Contribute to enterprise-wide architecture governance by participating in Design Authority forums pattern clinics and architecture dojos. Mentor integration and data analysts within the EA team on platform standards and patterns. Support knowledge transfer that reduces dependency on individual architects.

What you bring in:

• Significant experience as a platform architect cloud architect or senior solution architect working with Microsoft Azure cloud-native services at enterprise scale
• Deep hands-on knowledge of AKS (Kubernetes) Azure Service Bus Event Hubs API Management Azure Networking (VNet Private Link ExpressRoute) and Azure security services (Key Vault Entra ID RBAC)
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric or equivalent lakehouse/data platform architectures (Databricks Synapse Delta Lake) and the medallion pattern (Bronze/Silver/Gold)
• Understanding of AI/ML platform components: Azure AI Search Cosmos DB Redis MLOps pipelines and responsible AI governance (fairness explainability PII handling)
• Experience defining and enforcing reference architectures design patterns and non-functional requirements across distributed delivery teams
• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Bicep) CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices
• Strong understanding of zero-trust security principles domain isolation patterns and cloud cost governance (FinOps)
• Experience with enterprise architecture tooling (LeanIX preferred) and architecture governance processes (Design Authority ADRs)
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate platform decisions into business language for governance forums and non-technical stakeholders
• A degree in computer science engineering or related discipline; Azure certifications (Solutions Architect Expert AKS Fabric Analytics Engineer) and TOGAF are desirable

What we offer:

• The chance to work in a top talent team
• Attractive remuneration
• Build knowledge in cutting-edge technologies
• Opportunity for continuous training learning and certification
• Experience in an international and multicultural organization
• Work on challenging projects with clients in various industries around the globe
• Modern office environment
• Additional health insurance
• Life insurance
• 50 benefits and services to choose from
• Hybrid working policy