# 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. [email protected] 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, what the baseline system already did, and why a library did not solve it. Then stop and write three sentences a tax reviewer could use.2. Bring one system you built.

Be ready for 'was that SR&ED;?' If you say yes too fast, they will push on routine development. The robust answer draws the line in public.3. If you have never filed a claim, say so.



The posting treats SR&ED; experience as an asset.

Show that you can learn the tests, and that your engineering years are real.4. Ask which office the requisition is tied to and how hybrid works for client visits. Do not assume a single city. The careers site lists multiple locations for this family of roles.5.

A writing sample question is plausible. Offer to walk through a design note you rewrote for a non-author. Clarity beats jargon.Preparation from the public posting. Not the employer's interview script, and not tax advice.Maya## Resume for this role Title the recent role in engineering language, then add a line that you are moving toward technical consulting.

Hiding the build experience to look like a tax person is the wrong edit for this requisition.

Bullets should show systems, constraints, and communication with non-authors. One bullet on documentation or design review is worth more than a stack list.

If you have SR&ED;, grants, or IRAP-style work, give it its own bullet with your role (interviews, drafting, or support). If you do not, do not fake a claim year.

Tools: list languages and platforms you can whiteboard. Skip a wall of every cloud service you have logged into.

Put eligibility thinking in one bullet: a time you scoped work out because it was routine. That signals the judgment KPMG is buying.Example## Sample experience block: software engineer moving into SR&ED; consultingIllustrative for requisition 31460. Use your systems. Do not invent claim filings or CRA outcomes. The point is technical depth plus clear writing.

Designed and shipped backend services for a multi-tenant product, including API contracts, data stores, and deployment pipelines I can explain to a non-author.

Led design reviews that separated experimental algorithm work from routine feature delivery, and wrote the decision down.

Interviewed internal engineers to reconstruct why an integration failed, then produced a short technical note a product manager could use.

Managed two workstreams at once with a written milestone list, including what was blocked on a third-party API.

Studied SR&ED; eligibility criteria and mapped one past project to technological uncertainty, systematic investigation, and work that would not qualify.Before you apply## Maya's notes Apply on careers.kpmg.ca for job 31460. Ignore aggregator copies if they disagree with KPMG's page.

Your resume should prove you can talk to a CTO and then write. Tax vocabulary can be learned. Invented claim experience cannot.

Check the Index firm profile for KPMG Canada, then still confirm office and hybrid rules on the requisition.

- This is advisory prep from the public posting, not KPMG's interview guide and not tax advice.

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