Director, Harness Engineer

Known for being a great place to work and build a career, KPMG provides audit, tax and advisory services for organizations in today's most important industries. Our growth is driven by delivering real results for our clients. It's also enabled by our culture, which encourages individual development, embraces an inclusive environment, rewards innovative excellence and supports our communities. With qualities like those, it's no wonder we're consistently ranked among the best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine, Consulting Magazine, Seramount, Fair360 and others. If you're as passionate about your future as we are, join our team. KPMG is currently seeking a Director, Harness Engineer to join our Clients, Technology & Innovation (CT&I) organization. Responsibilities: - Partner with leadership to set overall technical standards and direction; architect and establish "the harness" as the common, reusable core across all EdgeCo product teams - Maintain elite, active coding practices by writing and shipping production-grade code, while personally owning and resolving the most complex production problems - Expand reusable assets, tools, and developer accelerators, championing cutting-edge tools (such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Lovable) where permitted to help every product pod ship faster - Establish and champion rigorous production standards, including context engineering, evaluation frameworks (golden datasets, rubrics, trace-based scoring in CI), operational readiness, and secure, observable, and auditable code - Facilitate strategic working sessions with senior executives Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and engineers, building trust by communicating technical risks, architectural trade-offs, and progress with absolute transparency - Mentor and guide engineers across multiple product teams through technical leadership; make critical "build versus integrate" decisions around industry standards (for example, Model Context Protocol) and directly support customer deployments to translate feedback into product improvements - Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment Qualifications: - Minimum ten years of recent, hands-on software engineering experience shipping secure, end-to-end production software with a focus on data, ML, and AI-native applications; candidates must write and ship production code today - Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in a STEM field or equivalent practical experience - Deep, practical familiarity with modern AI coding harnesses, agentic tooling, and the open-source LLM ecosystem (for example, Claude, Cursor, agent frameworks); direct experience engineering agent harnesses or working with tool integration standards like the Model Context Protocol is highly preferred - Extensive experience hardening, scaling, and operating live systems in complex cloud production environments (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud (GCP), supported by a product-oriented, startup-velocity mindset (founder or early-stage startup experience is a strong plus) - Proven track record of owning the architecture of major production systems and defining standards adopted by other engineers; strong capability to mentor technical teams without requiring or expecting formal people management - Innate ability to translate highly technical concepts to both impatient executives (CIO, CISO, CFO) and skeptical engineers; excellent customer-facing skills with the ability to facilitate collaborative sessions and align diverse stakeholders - Verifiable code portfolio, GitHub repository, or structured walk-through of a previously shipped system - Ability to travel domestically as needed KPMG LLP and its affiliates and subsidiaries ("KPMG")