Job description
The role of the Integration Enterprise Architect is to develop the UK Firm’s integration & DevOps technology strategy, communicate this to the business and translate this into a roadmap that determines our investment priorities and transformation portfolio.
The integration strategy needs to be promoted by the business, creating a seamless, end-to-end customer and employee experience by enabling the efficient creation and modification of effective and reusable integration components.
In particular, the strategy should communicate promote the use of modern, Cloud-based technologies; Infrastructure as Code (IaC), support typical integration use cases; create an operating model that satisfies the demands of the business for integration design, development, testing and release; and establish an integration catalogue that supports the reuse of new technologies, whilst targeting legacy integrations for decommissioning.
The Integration & Dev Ops Enterprise Architect should also help to articulate, execute and govern the strategy, by helping communicating to solution architects and projects to design solutions that are fit for purpose and conform to our standards and patterns.
You will need to maintain your core knowledge of integration platforms, wider technology trends and the KPMG technology ecosystem; build integration roadmaps and solutions; and govern relevant technology choices within the Firm.
Core knowledge
1. Maintain a high level of technical knowledge incl. current, emerging and future technology market trends and their impact on the business
2. Strong communication and ability to convey technical concepts to business stakeholders
3. Develop and maintain expert knowledge of KPMG’s technology ecosystem, incl. the main applications and technologies that interact with integration technologies
4. If required, provide advice to and/or seek to learn from other Member Firms, client teams and/or clients that are seeking to implement or improve their use of Integration technologies
Roadmaps & solutions
5. Build and maintain the Integration & DevOps technology roadmaps and architecture for KPMG assets, working with Capability CTOs, and business and technical SMEs where relevant
6. Create and update artefacts using architecture tooling such as ARIS and Alfabet.
7. Ensure that Capability roadmaps are aligned to the integration & cloud strategies, and coherent with those of other Capabilities and technology domain roadmaps
8. Work with Capability CTOs, technical SMEs and specific projects to analyse and translate business requirements into technical requirements, ensuring that these are feasible
9. Ensure that Solution Architects produce designs that are fit for purpose, adhere to relevant standards and patterns, leverage reusable components, and are coherent with wider KPMG technology domains
10. Contribute to the selection of specific integration technologies
11. Influence business and technology stakeholders to adopt the right technology solutions
12. Chairing and running the Data & Integration Design Authority (DIDA)
13. Support the design and implementation of operating models that improve the design and delivery of successful integration deployments
14. Escalate risks, issues and critical dependencies to the appropriate leaders as required to ensure the successful delivery of the strategy
Technology Governance
15. Help to establish, and participate in, the technology assurance process, building reference models and ensuring that standards, patterns, and reusable components are enforced
16. Ensure that legacy technology is decommissioned to manage and reduce technical debt
17. Support the selection and implementation of enterprise architecture tools that help to accelerate and govern technology initiatives
Essential skills - Integration
18. Demonstrable expert knowledge of Azure Integration Services (AIS), including API Management, Logic Apps, Event Grid, Service Bus, Key Vault, and Blob Storage.
19. Demonstrable knowledge of DevOps & IaC, including Azure DevOps, GitHub, Terraform, Azure Bicep/ARM, and Azure Policy.
20. Knowledge of other leading Cloud-based integration platforms, e.g., AWS Integration Services, MuleSoft, Dell Boomi, Informatica
21. Knowledge of security aspects for integration and cloud.
22. Good knowledge of integration and data architectures e.g., API management, service buses, adapters, ETL operations and batch transfers, integration, and data models, etc.
23. Creation of Integration Patterns and use of architecture tooling.
24. Integration monitoring and alerting, including ticket automation in ServiceNow.
25. Significant experience in Integration platform implementation including acting as technical lead, and chairing a design authority.
26. Design of complex Integration patterns and reusable components, e.g., based on SSO, JSON, SOAP, XML, SAML, SSL, Web Services, LDAP, JDBC, ODBC, REST, SCP (Secure Copy Protocol) and SFTP
Other essential skills
27. Strong written and verbal communication
28. Stakeholder management, including the ability to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience in a way that is relevant, easy to consume and compelling
29. Experience of working with Agile SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle Management) methods
30. Understanding of common business analysis techniques and approaches
31. Stakeholder management: Able to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience in a way that is relevant, easy to consume and compelling
32. A high level of general, technical knowledge incl. current, emerging and future technology market trends and their impact on business
33. Good understanding of project management concepts, incl. Gantt charts/plans, risks, assumptions, and dependencies, etc.
34. Good interpersonal and leadership skills
35. Ability to leverage networks in KPMG, e.g., to tap into additional expertise if required
36. Comfortable working with ambiguity at the beginning of projects, with ability to provide clarity of direction despite this
Desirable skills
37. Good knowledge of Business Architecture, incl. business and technology strategies, operating models, process models, business and technology capability models and taxonomies
38. Experience of leading offshore teams
39. Practical understanding of GDPR and ISO 27001
40. Qualified in ITIL and TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework)
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification/experience
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