Enterprise Solution Architecture Lead Africa

Key roles and responsibilities:

(a)Pre-Signing Solution Design and Quality (55%)

• Lead the architecture and solution design process for all major T&I pursuits - ensuring solutions are technically viable commercially structured and deliverable before KPMG signs the contract.
• Produce high-quality solution architecture documents technical proposals and delivery blueprints for cloud platform and enterprise technology engagements.
• Participate in all major client technical workshops solution presentations and architecture review sessions during the pursuit phase.
• Review and sign off on all technical scopes of work ensuring they align with KPMGs delivery capability alliance architectures and market rate assumptions.
• Challenge and interrogate solution designs proposed by delivery teams or clients - preventing over-engineering bespoke design or architectures that KPMG cannot support at scale.

(b) Delivery Architecture Support (30%)

• Provide architecture oversight and technical governance during delivery - attending key design reviews sprint reviews and technical steering committees on major engagements.
• Serve as the escalation authority for technical architecture decisions during delivery resolving disputes between client and KPMG delivery teams.
• Maintain architecture standards and reference frameworks for KPMG T&Is core technology platforms (Azure AWS SAP S/4HANA ServiceNow Oracle Cloud).
• Work with Block E (Enablement) to codify solution architecture patterns reference architectures and reusable design assets.
• Conduct formal architecture reviews (pre- and post-delivery) to identify systemic design risks and improve future solution quality.

(c) Alliance and Capability Development (15%)

• Maintain active relationships with alliance partner solution architects (Microsoft ServiceNow SAP Oracle) to stay current on reference architectures and certifications.
• Contribute to KPMG T&Is technical community of practice - running architecture reviews knowledge-sharing sessions and internal capability uplift.
• Support the hiring and technical assessment of architecture talent for the T&I team.
• Contribute to thought leadership and external market positioning on enterprise architecture topics.

Academic/ Professional qualifications and Experience:

• Degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or equivalent technical discipline.
• Cloud architecture certification required: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Google Professional Cloud Architect.
• TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of technology experience with at least 5 years in enterprise or solution architecture roles within a consulting or systems integration context.
• Proven experience designing and reviewing architectures for large-scale cloud migration platform modernisation or digital transformation programmes.
• Familiarity with African market delivery constraints and infrastructure environments.

Technical competencies & Personal attributes:

• Demonstrate and articulate KPMG values as well as proven capability in:
• Technical authority: deep architecture expertise across at least two major cloud or enterprise platforms.
• Design discipline: able to define clear structured deliverable solution architectures under time pressure.
• Commercial awareness: understands the cost implications of architectural decisions and can balance technical idealism with commercial pragmatism.
• Stakeholder engagement: comfortable leading technical workshops with client architects CTOs and IT leadership.
• Quality mindset: naturally challenges designs that introduce unnecessary complexity bespoke development or delivery risk.
• Collaboration: works effectively with delivery teams alliance partner architects and client technical teams.
• Market Intelligence: Demonstrate commercial awareness with sound knowledge of matters affecting the market.
• Business development entrepreneurial mind-set and ability to identify opportunities and develop high quality proposals.
• Personal effectiveness - Excellent report-writing and presentation skills.
• People management - Leadership & management skills.
• Performance management - Be a performance manager to the team in line with performance management guidelines.
• Risk management-lead in ensuring full compliance with KPMG quality & risk management requirements
• Capacity building - Takes a lead in building capability of team to future proof workforce and full utilization of existing workforce.