Global Platform Team Lead and Senior Director - IT Security

Locations

Boston | Atlanta | London

Overview

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation—inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact. To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

What You'll Do

The Global Platform Team Lead and Senior Director - IT Security is responsible for leading the design, delivery, and continuous evolution of BCG's security platforms across identity, device, and data protection domains. This role ensures end-to-end security engineering across all technology environments, including cloud, on-prem, and hybrid systems. The leader will drive strategic planning, execution, and operations of scalable, automated, and resilient security controls that protect BCG’s global operations and users, while enabling innovation and agility across BCG Core, BCG X, and CT worldwide. This role is also accountable for embedding security within DevSecOps practices, enforcing automation at scale, and applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles across all security services.

The role requires strong partnership with ISRM, with a focus on balancing and prioritizing security requirements, automation opportunities, user experience needs, and broader business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Transformation :

Define and execute a unified security engineering strategy that addresses identity, endpoint, and data protection across all environments.

Lead end-to-end engineering for identity and access management (IAM), including authentication, authorization, and privileged access controls.

Ensure security platforms are resilient, continuously monitored, and designed for 24x7 support and incident response readiness.

Ensure alignment with global compliance requirements such as ISO 27001, NIST, SOC 2, GDPR, and others.

Manage security platform budgets and investments with a focus on cost optimization and long-term value.

Build and mentor a global team of security engineers, fostering a high-performance, collaborative, and forward-thinking culture.

What You'll Bring

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WhoYou'llWorkWith

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EEO Information

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws. BCG is an E - Verify Employer.

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