Business Title: Enterprise Architect - Remote
Requisition Number: 109958 - 45
Function: Business Support Services
Area of Interest:
State: MI
City: Grand Rapids
Description:
Known for being a great place to work and build a career, KPMG provides audit, tax and advisory services for organizations in today's most important industries. Our growth is driven by delivering real results for our clients. It's also enabled by our culture, which encourages individual development, embraces an inclusive environment, rewards innovative excellence and supports our communities. With qualities like those, it's no wonder we're consistently ranked among the best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine, Consulting Magazine, Working Mother Magazine, Diversity Inc. and others. If you're as passionate about your future as we are, join our team.
KPMG is currently seeking an Enterprise Architect to join our Digital Nexus organization. This is a remote work opportunity.
Responsibilities:
Conduct research and participate in the maintenance, development, and documentation of technical roadmaps aligned to business objectives; facilitate organizational change through roadmaps by defining technical strategies for the risk portfolio which includes reducing costs, increasing efficiencies, providing increased capabilities, reducing risks, and increasing security for solutions in the portfolio set
Lead evaluation of business demands to determine what software, integration, platforms, patterns, standards, and solutions should be applied to support enterprise level solutioning
Provide technical design and architectural leadership, including solution level architecture that documents the logical, physical, and process views across multiple technology domains; work on multiple technologies with a matrixed evaluation of multiple solutions through research, proof of concept, and/or scoped testing
Collaborate with project teams to assist in delivery by providing guidance to application, engineering, and operations teams
Act as an internal consultant; develop and deliver presentations covering ideas, proposals, standards and technical solutions to all levels of management and technical audiences
Update technical architecture to support significant architectural changes, create patterns, and support innovation in the architecture team
Qualifications:
Minimum eight years of recent IT Architecture experience supporting a SaaS centric strategy and implementation cycle with the ability to integrate in support of an enterprise grade solution set
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university is preferred
Application architecture and App/Dev experience are preferred; knowledge of ServiceNow IRM/GRC or other GRC tools desirable
Understanding of service-oriented architecture, enterprise service bus platforms, security, identity and access management, operating system models, distributed architectures, storage technology, server virtualization, modern data platforms, database design and theory, business intelligence, data mining, visualization tools, and hybrid infrastructures
Able to lead and participate in efforts utilizing excellent verbal/written communication, collaboration, analytical, and presentation skills
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