Platinion Lead IT Architect

Who We Are

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 work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders-empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact.

Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change.

BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures.

We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.

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.

Practice Area Profile

BCG Platinion launched in Germany in 2000 to add deep technical expertise to the Boston Consulting Group's existing capabilities.

Today, our presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. Our New York-based North American team began in 2014 and in 2017 acquired MAYA Design, a Pittsburgh-based digital design and innovation lab, to grow our capabilities around technology and design.

We support our clients' total digital transformation through technology, design, cybersecurity, and risk management & financial engineering capabilities.

And together with BCG, BCG Platinion's interdisciplinary team of technical experts enable customized technical solutions and accelerate delivery value through new business platforms, application consolidations, and major system implementations.

What You'll Do

What You'll Do : As an IT Consultant at BCG Platinion, 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.

IT Architects at BCG Platinion are :

Collaborative. They are interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and establish relationships ranging from cross-functional stakeholder groups to existing teams.

Comfortable with ambiguity. They know the path forward isn't always well-defined. They are comfortable and confident working through the unknown.

Technical experts. They are critical thinkers and have extensive IT expertise that drives novel solutions routed in complexity.

Generalists. They have a solid technical foundation and wide range of experience to guide any client on any challenge, agnostic of industry.

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.

You're Good At :

Solution and application architecture and evaluation of alternative approaches

Restructuring IT processes and organization

Supporting IT functions during mergers and acquisitions, including the functional and technical transformation of an organization's IT department

Evaluating an organization's IT and software architecture

Assessing and implementing IT architectures

Evaluating products, such as core systems

Developing technical concepts development and designing of software solutions

Assessing quality assurance for IT implementation

Designing and implementing feasibility studies

Designing work packages / modules in IT implementation projects

Reviewing technical architecture and code

Executing technical proofs of concept

Analyzing complex IT application landscapes and status quo for IT architecture optimization

Developing functional and technical online and Internet strategies

Optimizing the application development processes

Contribute to BCG Platinion's consulting business by :

Assisting with business development through writing proposals, scoping projects

Contributing to our thought leadership through written publications and speaking at events and conferences

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

You bring :

Bachelor's Degree in information technology, business administration, computer science, business management, or system controls & engineering or a related field (Masters is a plus)

6+ years of practical 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 executives

Extensive technical expertise and knowledge of :

Various technology stacks

Cloud native applications and cloud services architecture

Integration methodologies and tools

Ability to explain complex technology topics to executives Extensive technical expertise and knowledge of :

API and Microservices architecture

Structured and unstructured databases and usage patterns

Data analytics architecture (e.g. Data Lake)

Programming paradigms and approaches (e.g. object-oriented)

Process automation approaches and tooling (e.g. DevOps, AIOps)

Mainframe architecture (nice to have, but not must)

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

Purposeful travel based on client and business needs. Expect 30-50% travel

What We Offer :

At BCG, we care about our people, and offer best in class benefits to support you personally and professionally throughout your different life experiences 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.

BCG pioneered strategy consulting more than 50 years ago, and we continue to innovate and redefine the industry. We offer multiple career paths for the world's best talent to have a real impact on business and society.

As part of our team, you will benefit from the breadth and diversity of what we are doing today and where we are headed next.

We count on your authenticity, exceptional work, and strong integrity. In return we are committed to supporting you in discovering the most fulfilling career journey and unlocking potential to advance

FOR U.S. APPLICANTS :

Boston Consulting Group ("BCG") is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

The first year base compensation for this role is $180,000 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 benefit please check our Benefits page.