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 acquiredMAYA 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
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 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:
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... For full info follow application link.
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