Deputy Manager- Low Code / Traditional Development Technical Lead

Who are we?

KPMG in Bahrain employs over 350 professionals and partners. We provide our clients with a suite of locally supported Audit, Tax, and Advisory services. We recruit the best and brightest from around the world and currently have a workforce representing over 20 countries across our teams. We also pride ourselves on our capabilities to attract, nurture, and empower talent from our communities locally.

We do what matters!

Why Join Us:

• Opportunity to drive innovation using traditional development technologies.
• Collaborative, supportive work environment focused on professional growth.
• Make impactful contributions to enterprise-level projects and solutions.

Role

• Lead and mentor an engineering team; set code quality, testing, and CI/CD standards.
• Own end-to-end delivery of enterprise AI solutions (GenAI/LLMs/RAG) from POC to secure, monitored production.
• Translate business needs into architecture and make pragmatic tech stack choices (cloud-native on AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Ensure reliability, security, and governance (observability, guardrails, data privacy, cost/performance targets).
• Partner with clients and stakeholders to shape roadmaps, manage timelines, and communicate trade-offs clearly.
• Stay hands-on (design reviews, troubleshooting, key modules) while driving innovation through measured pilots of new AI tools/models.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and deploy enterprise-scale AI/ML solutions leveraging Generative AI, LLMs, RAG frameworks, and agentic systems.
• Oversee end-to-end delivery from POC/MVP to hardened, monitored production, including release planning, risk management, and documentation.
• Establish and enforce software engineering best practices (code reviews, testing, CI/CD, IaC), driving consistent code quality and secure-by-default development.
• Design and maintain cloud-native architectures and integrations with enterprise systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP, ensuring scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Lead deep technical investigations to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across data, retrieval, model, and serving layers; drive continuous improvements in reliability and latency.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging AI technologies through measured pilots keeping solutions current and competitive.

The Individual

• 6–8 years hands-on in enterprise software engineering across backend/front-end/cloud, including 2+ years building AI solutions and 3+ years leading teams and client engagements.
• Proven experience designing and shipping AI systems to production (metrics, reliability, and cost ownership).
• Proficient in at least one: Python , Java , or JavaScript/TypeScript ; comfortable with modern backend patterns and architectural design.
• Practical experience with relational and non-relational data stores and the judgment to select the right one per use case.
• Solid DevOps foundations (CI/CD, IaC, observability) and cloud architecture on at least one major provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Strong grasp of security, privacy, and governance in enterprise environments.
• Excellent stakeholder communication, documentation, and mentoring skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data/AI , or a related field.
• Track record with full-stack technologies (e.g., HTML/CSS, JavaScript frameworks, Java or .NET) is a plus.
• Working knowledge of containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Demonstrated ability to architect, scale, and maintain complex enterprise applications and integrations.
• Relevant cloud/AI certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP, MLOps/LLM) or evidence of continuous learning are advantageous.

Why joining KPMG is beneficial for you:

It is more than a career opportunity! It is a chance to join a high-performing team that delivers a broad range of solutions to clients across different industries.

• We’re fully committed to developing a lifelong learning culture.
• We recognize potential, nurture talent, and reward high performance.
• We offer tax-free income.

If this is your first international assignment, no need to worry! We will support you with the transition and relocation to make sure that it is as smooth and hassle-free as possible, through the following:

• Immigration and Visa support
• Hotel Accommodation
• Cash Advances
• Annual Tickets
• Relocation Allowance