Job description
Senior Manager - Software Engineering - Tax & Legal Technology - B Grade
Tax and Legal Technology Team
We are a team of 300+ technologists providing technology enablement services and solutions across the Tax and Legal business. This business has 2,500 tax & legal professionals covering multiple disciplines. We serve many thousands of clients and private individuals by providing a modern, market-leading suite of technology solutions that provide an efficient digital experience from routine to complex tax advice depending on client's situation.
Tax is highlighted frequently as an industry where generative AI will have a significant impact on how services are provided. You will be working as a team at the forefront of navigating that change and redefining the way in which tax is determined in the UK and globally, making sure people and companies pay the right amount of tax with the minimum amount of effort.
The Engineering department is made up of Product Owners, Business Analysts, multi-disciplinary Engineering teams (approximate 160 Software, QA and Cloud Operations engineers) and IT Service delivery professionals working on a large portfolio of systems used to improve productivity and solve key business problems across Tax & Legal. We also build cutting edge web portals for clients to interact with KPMG, maximising collaboration and ensuring seamless delivery of information to our clients.
The Role
You will be responsible for several Agile Scrums teams each consisting of Software and Quality Assurance Engineers across a variety of projects for both our clients and our internal professionals. These teams will be in the UK and India. You will be responsible for the delivery of a range of software and data solutions. You will work alongside a team of Principal Product Owners to gain a deep understanding of the business needs help prioritise deliverables allowing you to focus developing world-class software engineering practices in your teams.
The role can be based anywhere in the UK, though preference will be given to candidates in Glasgow, London, Manchester or Leeds. We generally spend two days per week in the office.
Whilst there is no expectation of existing knowledge of tax, we would expect you to develop a degree of domain knowledge over time.
You will have...
1. Collaborative Approach:Led and driven agile adoption and best practices.Worked closely with other departments such as enterprise architecture, information assurance, information security & data privacy.
2. Cloud Experience:Experience building applications for the cloud such as Azure, AWS or GCP.Have had hands-on experience in building cloud first solutions.
3. Deep Technical Expertise: A deep understanding of the software development lifecycle.
4. Proven Track Record: A proven experience vision casting, leading and mentoring others.
5. Programming Skills: An understanding of modern object-oriented languages such has C# or Java.
6. Enterprise Expertise: The ability to demonstrate an understanding of web services, enterprise messaging and orchestration.
7. Data Modelling: Designed and defining complex data models.
8. Proven Track Record: Built software that includes desktop and user facing web applications.
9. Continuous Delivery: Promoted and used continuous delivery tooling.
10. Security Practices: An understanding of security coding and infrastructure best practices.
You may have ...
11. Cloud Experience:Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or other serverless application delivery platforms.Worked with ARM, Terraform or other infrastructure as code tools.
12. Continuous Delivery: Used GIT, Jenkins, GitHub or Azure DevOps.
13. Proven Track Record: Worked with React, Angular, Blazor, ASP MVC or other modern web UI frameworks.
14. Data Modelling:Used Entity Framework, Hibernate or other popular ORM tools.Used NoSQL databases such as cosmos DB, Mongo, Marklogic or Cassandra.
15. Enterprise Expertise: Experience with messaging such as Service Bus, MQ or Kafka.
16. Data Analytics: Experience with Data Analytics and Business Intelligence.
17. Quality Focus: Experience with delivering accessible friendly User Experiences.
In this role you will ...
18. Proven Track Record:Be overseeing the delivery and development of cloud-native, microservice applications.Proactively give regular and insightful feedback to peers and less experienced individuals across all parts of engineering.
19. Communication:Provide leadership and communicate effectively across multiple onshore and offshore teams.Work at a strategic level, influencing technical & non-technical decisions to achieve cross-team alignment on major near-term goals.Work with directors/partners and engagements to push through opportunities.
20. Quality Focus: Continuously improve your technical knowledge and share what you learn with others.
21. Deep Technical Expertise: Be responsible for solution design including presenting and managing the solution through our information, security, architecture and data privacy processes.
22. Collaborative Approach: Promote and drive improvements in the quality of our LEAN Agile, Scaled SCRUM methodologies.
23. Quality Focus:Promote quality mindset across teams/products/programmes managed. Encourage teams to own quality assurance and not individuals.Review development and testing frameworks, tools and libraries to contribute towards common organisation strategies.
What we can offer
24. Impactful Work: Influence high-profile global tax products.
25. Collaborative Environment: Engage with diverse, innovative, cross-functional teams.
26. A shared love of technology: learning about even newer technology to ensure our cloud platform continues to advance.
27. Professional Growth: Access workshops, conferences, and certifications for continuous learning.
28. Inclusive Culture: An inclusive workplace embracing diverse perspectives.
29. Global Resources: Leverage resources from a leading global professional services firm within an agile, tech-driven environment.
30. Market equal pay and benefits such as a subsidised lunch, health care, pension, cycle to work, free day off to celebrate your birthday.
The best of both worlds
We might be world leaders, but in many ways the department feels like a start-up, with a twist. There's the buzz of scrum working, the thrill of shaping compelling experiences, the chance to surprise and stretch yourself in response to a fresh challenge. And then there's all the resources, technology and high-profile projects of a major corporate entity. Crucially, we also offer the benefit of clear career progression.
Industry-leading rewards
Only KPMG offers the advantages of Our Deal - an industry-leading and radically different approach to pay, progression and benefits. Our Deal is a vibrant combination of secondment and fast-track opportunities plus one, transparent, company-wide bonus mechanism. It also includes payment towards student loans, preferential banking offers, the opportunity to finish work early on Fridays in summer - and even a day off for your birthday.
The diverse and inclusive employer
Proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunity employer, we seek to attract and retain the best people from the widest possible talent pool. As a member of The Employers' Forum on Disability we're committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the Recruitment Process. Should you be successful after the initial application stage, please discuss with your recruitment contact any reasonable adjustments to our Recruitment Process that you may require.
KPMG consistently features in the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for. This has been recognised with a special achievement award to mark our 10 years in the Top 25. We pride ourselves on being a place where individuality is valued; you can be yourself and still achieve your potential. We believe that your individuality helps us to deliver the best results to our clients. Diversity of background, diversity of experience, diversity of perspective - that's the KPMG difference.