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About BCG Platinion
BCG Platinion's presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. We achieve digital excellence for clients with sustained solutions to the most complex and time-sensitive challenge. We guide clients into the future to push the status quo, overcome tech limitations, and enable our clients to go further in their digital journeys than what has ever been possible in the past. At BCG Platinion, we deliver business value through the innovative use of technology at a rapid pace. We roll up our sleeves to transform business, revolutionize approaches, satisfy customers, and change the game through Architecture, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Application and Risk functions. We balance vision with a pragmatic path to change transforming strategies into leading-edge tech platforms, at scale.
At BCG Platinion, we’re bringing design to the front line of business challenges, creating work that solves problems in novel, feasible, and desirable ways. Our team applies a discovery-driven approach in order to create innovative and exciting end-to-end experiences at the intersection of people and technology. As a Lead IT Architect, you will collaborate on interdisciplinary teams of designers, engineers, researchers, technical experts, and consultants to develop leading IT concepts and architectural solutions. In this role, you will apply your sound technical know-how, understanding of business contexts, and analytical skills to enable organizations to technically transform.
NOTE: This role is specifically seeking a leader to serve primarily in the US Public Sector as part of BCG Platinion’s Architecture practice, but also open to commercial and private sector engagements where required.
Ideal candidate requirements given client and contract / portfolio requirements include US Citizenship, active security clearance or ability to obtain a security clearance (e.g. DoD Secret / Top Secret), prior expertise with portfolio and project management of US federal government agencies in a technology consulting context is preferred.
Lead IT Architects at BCG Platinion are:
- Technical experts. They are critical thinkers and have extensive IT expertise that drives novel solutions routed in complexity.
- Comfortable with ambiguity. They know the path forward isn’t always well-defined. They are comfortable and confident working through the unknown.
- Change agents. They know how to make change happen across an organization. They can align and onboard teams to implement new processes and toolsets. They embrace complex challenges and guide an organization to optimize IT best practices.
- Agile advocates. They are well-versed in agile methodologies and use their expertise to strategically tackle difficult challenges and implement change.
- Collaborative. They are interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and establish relationships ranging from cross-functional stakeholder groups to existing teams.
- Innovative. They are creative thinkers who apply their deep IT architecture expertise to envision novel design patterns for the next generation of technology solutions.
- Knowledgeable. They have a sophisticated understanding of IT Architecture, acting as a viable resource on teams as both a hands-on practitioner and subject matter expert.
What You Are Good At
IT Architecture and Solution Design
- Designing solution, application, and data architecture.
- Developing feasibility studies, technical concepts, executing technical proofs of concept, and scaling software solutions.
- Performing technology assessments and implementing IT architectures.
- Analyzing complex IT application landscapes and status quo for IT architecture optimization.
- Reviewing technical architecture and code.
IT Optimization and Transformation
- Supporting IT functions during mergers and acquisitions, including the functional and technical transformation of an organization’s IT department.
- Restructuring IT processes and organization.
- Optimizing the application development processes.
Implementation Management and Support
- Designing work packages/modules in IT implementation projects.
- Evaluating products, SW packages, and solutions, including comparative studies across organizations’ systems (e.g., ERPs, HR systems, Data Analytics).
- Assessing quality assurance for IT implementation.
Communication and Collaboration
- Crafting compelling narratives, translating complex ideas for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Delivering impactful presentations, leading modules, presenting findings, and building consensus with clients.
- Building collaboration, mentoring teams, and sharing knowledge to drive collective success.
- Facilitating technical and strategic working sessions and workshops with both client and internal teams.
- Providing direction on key work items and feedback to other team members.
Team Management
- Manage junior team members by defining and organizing their "module", helping them structure their work and associated analyses.
- Mentor and coach junior team members by building mutual development agreements and manufacturing opportunities for them to grow and develop along explicitly defined objectives.
- Provide quality assurance oversight - Review junior team members’ output for overall correctness, level of insight, clarity, etc.
- Promote an overall positive experience for junior staff.
- Serve as a role model by actively demonstrating and living BCG’s Culture and Values.
Innovation and Growth
- Driving innovation, uncovering novel ideas and transformative solutions.
- Fostering a growth mindset, continuously learning and applying new skills to grow your impact.
- Building relationships with key clients.
- Assisting with business development through writing proposals and scoping projects.
- Bachelor's Degree in information technology, business administration, computer science, business management, or system controls & engineering or a related field.
- Master's Degree in related fields not required but preferred.
- 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering with more than 4 years in architecture discipline.
- Superior technical knowledge, engineering rigor, and creative problem-solving.
- Ability to explain complex technology topics to senior executives.
- Extensive technical expertise and knowledge of:
- Various technology stacks.
- Mainframe architecture (nice to have, but not must).
- Cloud native applications and cloud services architecture.
- Omnichannel architecture.
- Integration methodologies and tools.
- API and Microservices architecture.
- Structured and unstructured databases and usage patterns.
- High-speed, high-volume, high-frequency transaction processing systems.
- Real-time logging, monitoring and resiliency approaches.
- Disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
- Next gen capabilities (e.g. AI/ML, IoT, Blockchain) and component technologies.
- Data analytics architecture (e.g. Data Lake).
- Programming paradigms and approaches (e.g. object-oriented).
- Process automation approaches and tooling (e.g. DevOps, AIOps).
- Experience in agile engineering and tooling support.
- An agile mindset that moves past blockers and a vision to iteratively migrate to the next/modern set of architecture capabilities with a lens of business benefits/value.
- Gen AI tool fluency (e.g., proven usage of GenAI such as ChatGPT, Claude) and validation of response.
- Willingness to travel to work with clients and BCG teams. At times, this role involves significant travel to client sites. The amount of travel will depend on client needs and nature of projects.
What We Offer:
At BCG, we care about our people, and offer best in class benefits to support you personally and professionally including:
- An opportunity to work organically across disciplines and across BCG, we offer a unified and unrivaled opportunity that combines strategic thinking with hands-on applications.
- A unique experience to work alongside a team of passionate and driven problem-solvers with a mission to deliver innovative and valuable digital solutions in a supportive environment.
For U.S. Applicants:
The first year base compensation for this role is $190,000 in USD. In addition to your base salary, you will also be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus and BCG’s Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution. BCG also provides a market leading benefits package described below.
At BCG, we are committed to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes everything our employees and their families need to be well and live life to the fullest. We pay the full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees – and their eligible family members.* That’s zero dollars in premiums taken from employee paychecks. All our plans provide best in class coverage:
- Zero-dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children.
- $10(USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs.
- Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 (USD) in orthodontia benefits.
- Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually.
- Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities.
- Fully vested retirement contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not.
- Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, and annual office closure between Christmas and New Years.
- Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement.
*Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.
To learn more about our employee benefits please check our Benefits page.
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