Enterprise Hybrid Platform Architect (Advisory) – Manager – National Security

Overview

As a Hybrid Platform Architect in KPMG’s AI & Platform Engineering practice aligned with National Security, you design and guide cloud and on-premises platform strategies for complex clients. You’ll translate business goals into practical architectures, balancing legacy and modern environments while engaging C-suite stakeholders. You’ll drive transformations, roadmaps and capability models to deliver secure, observable, and cost-efficient platform estates. This role offers impactful work within a high-growth national security context and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical workstreams within projects and ensure credible delivery
• Design roadmaps, implementation strategies, and solution architectures
• Provide broad insight across integration and hybrid hosting scenarios
• Leverage knowledge and network to generate client opportunities
• Drive development of propositions with a National Security perspective
• Coach and share knowledge with colleagues
• Develop strong client relationships to understand business problems and identify opportunities
• Adapt to client constraints including potential on-site work and UK travel

Key requirements

• Strong hands-on skills in a relevant technical area
• Experience delivering complex architectural solutions on cloud or hybrid environments
• Proven ability to communicate with senior stakeholders and manage relationships
• Experience across business analysis, systems thinking, solution and data architecture
• Knowledge of enterprise MI and real-time observability for operations
• Understanding of traditional platform delivery and major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Ability to design operating models for legacy and cloud environments
• Practitioner mindset with multi-disciplinary collaboration and client-facing credibility

• communication with senior stakeholders
• team player
• coaching and knowledge sharing
• AWS depth of experience
• Azure and GCP knowledge
• solution architecture and data architecture

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