Process Mining Lead - Senior Manager

KPMG

Southampton

10 months ago

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Process Mining Lead - Senior Manager

KPMG Overview

KPMG in the UK is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Legal, Tax and Advisory services. Through the talent of over 16,000 colleagues we bring our creativity, insight and experience to solve our clients’ and communities’ biggest problems. We’ve been doing this for more than 150 years. We aim to be universally recognised as a place for great people to do their best work. A firm known for our collaborative and inclusive culture, using technology to empower and equip our people to deliver outstanding work with real flexibility – through inspiring workspaces, innovative ways to collaborate and hybrid ways of working. With offices across the UK, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals, in virtually every industry imaginable. Our work is often complex, yet our mission is simple: To support the UK in a connected world. It guides everything we do, underpinned by our values: Courage, Integrity, Excellence, Together and For Better.

Role Overview

As a Process Mining Lead - Senior Manager, you will be responsible for designing solutions, to address business demand and have a strong focus on developing pipeline, pre-sales, sales and contract creation. In your roles as Senior Manager, you’ll work with Project Managers and Development teams to guide the design through to delivery, ensuring that KPMG quality and risk frameworks are adhered to. You will work in a rapidly developing team, with ambitious growth intentions, to help establish a world leading capability. You will be challenged to maintain your knowledge around the market segment, whilst developing technical breadth and depth of knowledge across numerous other interface layers

Responsabilities:

Deliver solutions which meet KPMG’s quality framework, whilst leveraging Appian best practises Identify, develop and land sales and project opportunities with clients, both new and existing, to deliver our propositions Be responsible for developing our Architecture patterns and Best Practices Have responsibility for maintaining our platforms and their integrations with other services / platforms Ensure our platforms remain compliant with required standards of Information and Data Security Proposing technical and creative business solutions Working in a DevOps model to support in flight solutions, whilst innovating on new opportunities Help identify new go to market opportunities for the Process & Automation Team Deliver showcases to clients and internal stakeholders, to help establish wider awareness of Process & Automation capabilities Designing and delivering high quality technical Proof of Concepts for prospective customers To have an up to date view of the roadmap of features for the technologies we use, and be able to articulate them

Leadership & Management:
As a Senior Manager you will be responsible for driving the training and certification of the team forward and managing junior architects. Establishing KPMG as a trusted partner for Technoloogy solutions.

Stakeholder Interaction & challenges:
Joining KPMG means joining a talented team of exceptional colleagues who bring innovative thoughts and a natural curiosity to the work they do each day. No one type of person succeeds at KPMG; a diverse business requires diverse personalities, characters and perspectives. There really is a place for you here.

Impact, Risk, Accountability & Governance:
Will be expected to support existing solutions that Process & Automation already has out in the market.

Technical skills

Minimum of 5 years experience in designing Solutions, UX/UI, Process Model design Minimum 5-10 years experience as a Solutions Architect In depth experience/knowledge of architecture best practises In depth experience and knowledge with Cloud based architectures (AWS, Azure, Google, Private Cloud) Experience working with Virtualisation technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) Experience working micro-service, analytics and messaging architectures (e.g. Quantexa, Kafka, NodeJS/Python microservices) Experience working in CI/CD and DevOps environments Experience with relational and non-relational databases Recent experience programming in one or more of the following: Java (J2EE, JNDI, JDBC, JMS, Web Services), HTML, XML, XSL, JavaScript, SQL. Ability to identity the benefits between different hosting platforms, from on premise server installs through Hybrid, to Cloud hosted agnostic Experience in production environments (application servers, web servers, databases)

Non-technical skills

Extensive experience of a variety of development methodologies (e.g. Scrum (and other Agile methodologies), Kanban, ScaledAgile, XP, Waterfall etc) Extensive experience of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Experience in/Exposure to Defect Management, Change Management, Release Management, Information Security Experience in Pre-Sales, Sales, pipeline management, contract creation and engagement management Already have, or be eligible for, SC Clearance Desire to strive for continuous improvement Ability to translate business requirements into user stories Experience in a delivery role, working to timeline and budget requirements Able to thrive in a unique culture where thinking outside of the box is required daily and creative input is necessary to solve business problems Technical depth to understand the landscape of the complete solution Proven success conveying customer requirements to Product Management teams Familiarity with Business Process Management Languages and Platforms/Frameworks: Appian, PegaSystems, Outsystems, Mendix, etc Familiarity with Process Mining technologies such as Celonis, Aris, Signavio, etc Familiarity with RPA tools such as BluePrism, UIPath, Automation Anywhere etc. Strong verbal and written communication skills, customer interaction, requirements analysis, presentations, and system design

Nice to have experience
Technical skills

Experience with cognitive services integrations (Azure, Google, IBM) Data Visualisation – Qlik, Dataiku, Tableau, PowerBI OCR (Kofax, Kodak, Xerox, Computer Vision, Microsoft Cognitive Services etc.)

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