Senior Software engineer and solution architect at KPMG

Senior Software engineer and solution architect

Software developer with a solutioning background will help bridge the gap between technical platform needs (i.e., development stack) and business issues. Solutioning background skews towards software platforms but also bring more architecting/modelling capabilities than a pure software engineer. In this way, they will play an important “utility” role on teams including helping to enable overall solutioning and full-scope architecture design and build. They will be able to complete intermediate-level software and data engineering tasks, basic modelling tasks, and business solutioning and executive communication tasks. They will design software architecture following best practices after understanding customer requirements and enterprise environments.

The tasks will involve:

• Assess, capture, and translate complex business issues and solution requirements into a structured software engineering use case, including rapid learning of industry/domain/client dynamics and development of effective work stream plans
• Utilize a hypothesis-driven problem-solving approach to design, construct, and rapidly test/iterate software platforms and architectures that will enable usability of developed software, interface with data models and visualizations to reveal insight and opportunities for clients
• Deliver client project software work stream through direct ownership of software build, data ingestion APIs, engineering, transformation, automation, and back-end visualization setup, as well as client communication deliverables
• Support build of software environments that enable analytics solutions on a variety of platforms including cloud as required by the client, and create robust documentation of solutions, architecture, automation workflows, and operation procedures
• Proactively broaden and deepen client relationships by working with varying levels of client team members
• Strong communication skills to explain technical concepts to businesspeople, and to explain business concepts to technical resources

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering, Economics, IT or related relevant degree course
• Professional qualification such as ACCA, CFA, CPA, CISA, CIA, CRMA, CRISC, EIA certifications (depending on the role)
• Demonstrated track record of quality work, project management and productive team interactions.
• At least 2 years’ experience in Software engineer and solution architect (Python, Flask &React)

Skills and Attributes

• Exhibits commercial, technical and social awareness
• Client focused delivery that is effective and efficient
• Positive feedback from the clients, fellow team members and managers, directors, partners on excellent execution of the role
• Demonstrates creativity, agile performance and innovation in the way they work
• Successful delivery of the risk initiatives as they arise.
• Ability to train and mentor team members on different tasks

We offer:

• An exciting opportunity to work with a Big 4 firm on cutting edge development programmes across Africa
• Continuous learning and development
• Exposure to multi-disciplinary client service teams
• Unrivalled space to grow and be innovative
• Competitive remuneration package

Deadline:16th March 2022.