Lead Solution Architect - Finance & Commercial

Lead Solution Architect
- Finance & Commercial

Location: Leeds, London & Other locations

Location: Leeds, London, Manchester, Reading

Capability: Corporate Services

Experience Level: Senior Manager

Type: Full Time or Part Time

Business Area: Technology

Contract type: Permanent

Group Digital is the firm's primary provider of internal technology services, data, and innovation. We deliver secure, resilient, and standardised technology solutions that ensure our operations run seamlessly and empower colleagues to provide exceptional client service. Our mission is to propel KPMG into the future. We drive our digital strategy, safeguard against cyber threats, manage data responsibly, and provide cutting-edge tools for seamless collaboration.

Through innovation and accelerated adoption of digital and AI capabilities, we support growth and transformation, unlocking significant value for both our colleagues and clients.

The Strategy & Architecture team within Group Digital provides enterprise-wide technology leadership, strategic direction, and governance across KPMG. As a trusted advisory function, the team shapes the firm's digital and technology roadmap, aligning technology investments with business priorities while driving innovation, standardisation, and architectural excellence. Through design, assurance, and strategic planning, the team helps reduce technology debt, optimise investment outcomes, manage technology risk, and evaluates emerging technologies such as AI, automation, cloud, and data platforms.

The Strategy and Architecture team leads by sharing technology expertise, bringing stakeholders together to accelerate informed decision-making, enabling secure, cost-effective, and business-aligned technology outcomes.

The role of the Solution Architect is to help the Finance and Commercial domain deliver its business strategy through technology. They must work with technology implementation projects to translate the business requirements into detailed solution architecture designs; challenge the business strategy based on emerging and future technology trends; help business Capabilities to design and govern their technology roadmap, i.e. a portfolio of technology transformation projects that deliver the business and technology strategies;

influence business and technology stakeholders to adopt the right technology solutions; and elevate risks, issues and critical dependencies to the appropriate leaders as required to ensure the successful delivery of the strategy.

The role holder will be required to maintain core knowledge of the wider technology trends and the KPMG technology ecosystem; contribute to the patterns catalogue, build roadmaps and solutions; and recommend relevant technology choices within the Firm.

• Acting as the lead solution architect on Finance related projects
• Creating and developing the requisite documentation – Conceptual and Solution Architecture Design documents
• Contribute to governance processes where applicable – this will include helping the project navigate the Technology Assurance Group.
• Work closely with the Strategy & Architecture team, development teams, other architects and 3rd party suppliers.
• Create & maintain a detailed view of existing architecture. In order to help manage the transition to future state architecture.
• Identify business/project risk and mitigate or communicate as necessary.
• Ensure progress updates are communicated to relevant parties both formally and informally.
• Carry out additional duties as may occur from time to time as instructed and agreed by leadership.
• Assist the Chief Architect, CTO, Domain Architects with key enterprise application and platform reviews. And other strategic initiatives that affect functional areas.
• Develop relationships within the KPMG business and technology functions.
• Demonstrable expert knowledge of SAP S/4
  
  HANA Cloud including, but not limited to SAP Finance, SAP Concur, SAP Professional Services, SAP Treasury Platform, SAP Financial Compliance Management
• Understanding of SAP BTP, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP CIS
• Good knowledge of Finance and Professional Services Engagement Management processes, e.g. Record to Report, Order to Cash, Acquire…