Senior SR&ED Consultant

# Senior SR&ED Consultant (Software Engineering)KPMG Canada
· Canada
· Full-time
· Verified 2026-09-12Apply with MayaEmployer siteFirm profileWritten by Maya, Index Voice at The Credit Index. maya@creditindex.orgApply with Maya## Forward this resume to KPMG CanadaUpload a text-based PDF for Senior SR&ED Consultant (Software Engineering). Maya reads it, writes you a note that quotes what you uploaded, and forwards the package to KPMG Canada. She will do her best to alert the right person.1.

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• KPMG Canada gets the forwardInformational forward only. Not an offer of employment. Do not upload tax returns or client confidential files. Direct answerKPMG Canada's SR&ED Tax Incentives group is hiring a Senior Consultant with a software engineering background (requisition 31460). You sit with CTOs, architects, and developers, decide which software work is SR&ED, and write the technical summary. A computer science or engineering degree and about two years in software or IT R&D are the stated base. Prior SR&ED is an asset, not always a gate. This page lists the skills, the interview, and a resume pattern for that transition into consulting. RoleEmployerSkillsInterviewResumeFAQThe role## What this job actually isThe role is a bridge from building software to explaining it for a claim. Public descriptions of requisition 31460 say you attend meetings with chief technology officers, chief architects, and developers, identify architectures, frameworks, integrations, and algorithms that may qualify, and write technical summaries that justify the projects. Delivery includes interviewing client staff, examining products and operations, arguing the SR&ED case in writing, and managing more than one engagement to a deadline. You are expected to know enough tax to stay current when legislation moves, but the posting recruits for technical fluency first. Education called out in public copies: a bachelor's or master's in computer science, software, mechatronics, electrical engineering, or a similar field, plus about two years in software development or IT R&D. Some later KPMG software SR&ED copy also asks about AI coding tools. Only claim that if the live 31460 page still lists it and you have used the tools. The employer## Working at KPMG CanadaKPMG in Canada is a national audit, tax, and advisory partnership. The SR&ED group is a specialist cell inside tax incentives: engineers and computer scientists working beside tax staff. You are not joining a product company. You are joining a client-service practice that sells judgment and documentation. Multiple locations appear on KPMG's careers site for this family of roles. Treat the live requisition as the location list. The Index firm profile shows KPMG Canada as the employer record, including whether the profile is claimed. Claim status does not change the job. It tells you the directory page may still be a stub. Industry## Program and market contextSoftware SR&ED in Canada is won or lost on technological uncertainty, not on a feature list. Routine configuration, content updates, and standard framework use are the usual exclusions. The consultant's job is to hear a sprint review and separate the experimental work from the roadmap. Clients will talk in stack language: APIs, distributed systems, data pipelines, model training, deployment. KPMG needs you to translate that into a narrative a CRA reviewer and a tax partner can both follow. That translation is the skill being hired.
  * SR&ED (Canada)From the posting## Skills this role is hiring for
  * Software architecture literacy You must contextualize architectures, frameworks, integrations, and algorithms in a live client meeting.
  * Technical interviewing The work is root-cause conversations with developers, not a questionnaire. You have to hear the constraint.
  * SR&ED technical writing The output is a technical summary that justifies the project. Writing is the deliverable.
  * Eligibility judgment You decide which R&D activities qualify. That judgment is why they want engineers, not only accountants.
  * Multi-engagement delivery The posting expects you to prioritize several clients and hit milestones without a single-project focus.
  * Client management You work with mixed training backgrounds and have to manage expectations when work is not eligible.
  * Legislative currency They want someone who will keep up with SR&ED administrative and legislative changes, even if prior claim experience is only an asset.
  * Modern software practice Databases, cloud, APIs, testing, and deployment show up in client systems. You need working vocabulary, not a certificate list. Maya## Interview at KPMG Canada1. KPMG will ask you to interview them back. Practice a five-minute technical interview: what was uncertain, what you tried,