PLA Lead IT Architect

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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.

Practice Area
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

As a Lead IT Architect, you will work closely with clients to understand their issues, define IT strategies, architecture solutions, win buy-in for your recommendations, and collaborate with fellow BCGers to transform client potential into performance.

You will be given end-to-end responsibility for larger, highly technical and more complex modules within a project and begin to develop specialized knowledge to help you solve clients' problems.

You will start to take on team lead responsibilities and demonstrate intellectual leadership.

Our Expert Consulting Track
The Expert Consulting Track (ECT) is vital to BCG's ability to successfully meet our clients' demand for deep expertise and advanced technical capabilities.

Experts deliver next-level impact for BCG's most complex and cutting-edge client challenges.

Experts focus on developing BCG's thought leadership, commercial capabilities, and intellectual property assets; and their work is essential to our delivery model.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team to bring the 'best of BCG' to our clients, Experts come from diverse backgrounds, with expertise often gained outside of BCG in industry, academia, or specialized consulting.

What You'll Bring

Experience

• Minimun 10 years in data strategy, technical project management, or technology consulting with a proven track record in leading IT implementation projects.
  
  

Technical Skills

• Proficient in designing and managing scalable, high-availability cloud architectures using major cloud service providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Cloud.
  
  
• Skilled in the deployment and management of cloud-native services, including serverless functions, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and microservices architectures.
  
  
• Experience with cloud security management, including identity and access management (IAM), security groups, and compliance policies.
  
  

Data Systems Expertise

• Deep understanding of cloud data services like Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, and comprehensive knowledge of cloud-based database services such as Amazon RDS, Azure SQL Database, and Google Cloud SQL.
  
  
• Expertise in cloud-based data integration and ETL tools like AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, and Google Cloud Dataflow.
  
  
• Proficient in designing data replication and backup strategies across multiple regions for disaster recovery and high availability.
  
  

Desirable Expertise

• Experience in developing and enforcing cloud governance policies to ensure cost management, security compliance, and resource optimization within the cloud environment.
  
  
• Proficient in implementing cloud security strategies, including the use of tools for continuous monitoring and threat detection.
  
  

Interpersonal & Leadership Skills

• A strong analytical mindset for evaluating complex IT application landscapes and optimizing development processes.
  
  
• Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with stakeholders and provide technical leadership.
  
  
• Up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices in data architecture to guide strategic decisions and innovations.
  
  

Industry Experience

• Strong experience in either banking or energy sector, demonstrating a proven track record in major projects and innovations within one of these industries.
  
  

Who You'll Work With

• BCG Managing Directors and Partners (MDP's)
• PLA Managing Directors (MD's)
• BCG Consultants at all levels
• PLA Consultants at all levels
• Clients, vendors, partners

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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