Enterprise / Solution Architecture Lead - Africa at KPMG Nigeria

KPMG is a global network of independent professional services firm with deep expertise in the provision of audit, tax and advisory services to clients in various industries and sectors of the economy. The Firm is well represented in Nigeria and across the African continent, with the objective of providing exceptional and quality services to multinational, regional and local clients and to enhance the product offerings in certain previously under-serviced markets.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Enterprise / Solution Architecture Lead - Africa

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full time
Career level: Senior Manager

Position Summary

• The Enterprise / Solution Architecture Lead is a Senior Manager-level role responsible for ensuring that all major KPMG T&I engagements are correctly designed, technically sound, and structured for repeatable, scalable delivery - before contracts are signed.
• This role is the primary pre-signing protection mechanism for KPMG T&I, preventing the costly rework, overruns, and client escalations that arise from poor upfront solution design.
• The Architecture Lead owns the solution design process for cloud, platform, and enterprise technology mandates across the portfolio, working in close collaboration with delivery teams, alliance partners, and client technical stakeholders

Key Roles and Responsibilities
Pre-Signing Solution Design and Quality (55%):

• Lead the architecture and solution design process for all major T&I pursuits - ensuring solutions are technically viable, commercially structured, and deliverable before KPMG signs the contract.
• Produce high-quality solution architecture documents, technical proposals, and delivery blueprints for cloud, platform, and enterprise technology engagements.
• Participate in all major client technical workshops, solution presentations, and architecture review sessions during the pursuit phase.
• Review and sign off on all technical scopes of work, ensuring they align with KPMG's delivery capability, alliance architectures, and market rate assumptions.
• Challenge and interrogate solution designs proposed by delivery teams or clients - preventing over-engineering, bespoke design, or architectures that KPMG cannot support at scale.

Delivery Architecture Support (30%):

• Provide architecture oversight and technical governance during delivery - attending key design reviews, sprint reviews, and technical steering committees on major engagements.
• Serve as the escalation authority for technical architecture decisions during delivery, resolving disputes between client and KPMG delivery teams.
• Maintain architecture standards and reference frameworks for KPMG T&I's core technology platforms (Azure, AWS, SAP S/4HANA, ServiceNow, Oracle Cloud).
• Work with Block E (Enablement) to codify solution architecture patterns, reference architectures, and reusable design assets.
• Conduct formal architecture reviews (pre- and post-delivery) to identify systemic design risks and improve future solution quality.

Alliance and Capability Development (15%):

• Maintain active relationships with alliance partner solution architects (Microsoft, ServiceNow, SAP, Oracle) to stay current on reference architectures and certifications.
• Contribute to KPMG T&I's technical community of practice - running architecture reviews, knowledge-sharing sessions, and internal capability uplift.
• Support the hiring and technical assessment of architecture talent for the T&I team.
• Contribute to thought leadership and external market positioning on enterprise architecture topics.

Requirements
Academic/ Professional qualifications and Experience:

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline.
• Cloud architecture certification required: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305), AWS Solutions Architect Professional, or Google Professional Cloud Architect.
• TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of technology experience, with at least 5 years in enterprise or solution architecture roles within a consulting or systems integration context.
• Proven experience designing and reviewing architectures for large-scale cloud migration, platform modernisation, or digital transformation programmes.
• Familiarity with African market delivery constraints and infrastructure environments.

Technical competencies & Personal attributes:

• Demonstrate and articulate KPMG values as well as proven capability in:
• Technical authority: deep architecture expertise across at least two major cloud or enterprise platforms.
• Design discipline: able to define clear, structured, deliverable solution architectures under time pressure.
• Commercial awareness: understands the cost implications of architectural decisions and can balance technical idealism with commercial pragmatism.
• Stakeholder engagement: comfortable leading technical workshops with client architects, CTOs, and IT leadership.
• Quality mindset: naturally challenges designs that introduce unnecessary complexity, bespoke development, or delivery risk.
• Collaboration: works effectively with delivery teams, alliance partner architects, and client technical teams.
• Market Intelligence: Demonstrate commercial awareness with sound knowledge of matters affecting the market.
• Business development entrepreneurial mind-set and ability to identify opportunities and develop high quality proposals.
• Personal effectiveness - Excellent report-writing and presentation skills.
• People management - Leadership & management skills.
• Performance management - Be a performance manager to the team in line with performance management guidelines.
• Risk management-lead in ensuring full compliance with KPMG quality & risk management requirements
• Capacity building - Takes a lead in building capability of team to future proof workforce and full utilization of existing workforce.

Benefits
We offer:

• An exciting opportunity to work with a Big 4 firm on cutting edge clients across Africa.
• Continuous learning and development.
• Exposure to multi-disciplinary client service teams.
• Unrivalled space to grow and be innovative.
• Opportunity for international travel.

Application Closing Date
18th May, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidiates should:
Click here to apply online