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Boston Consulting Group

Senior IT Architect - Platinion

Boston Consulting Group, Denver, Colorado, United States, 80285


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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 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.

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.

What You'll Do

Senior 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.

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 and designing 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

Contributing to BCG Platinion's consulting business by assisting with business development through writing proposals, scoping projects, and contributing to our thought leadership through written publications and speaking at events and conferences.

What You'll Bring

You bring:

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

4+ years of professional experience in software engineering with more than 1 year 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

Mainframe architecture (nice to have, but not must)

Cloud native applications and cloud services architecture

Integration methodologies and tools

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)

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

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 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.

FOR U.S. APPLICANTS:

The first year base compensation for this role is $140,000 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.

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.

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