Lead IT Architect, BCG Platinion

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. What You'll Do WHAT YOU'LL DO (AND WHY IT MATTERS)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 What You'll Bring WHAT YOU'LL BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS) • 10+ years' experience in software development, technical project management, digital delivery or technology consulting• Ability to bring unique tech perspectives from outside the consulting industry into BCG's typical engagements, requiring:v Consulting experience [Required]v Strategic mindset (hypothesis driven, 80:20 mindset, iterative approach, activist stance)v Self-managed• Leadership potential to transform the consulting industry in particular around interaction with designers, engineers and POs v Progressing thought leadership in deep techv New (but proven) methodologies or ways of working• Overview of common development methods and tools DevOps practices and Continuous Improvement• Ability to balance dogmatism and pragmatism to guide decision making. Articulate trade-offs and drive high-impact technology decisions on topics including (but not limited to) IaaS/PaaS providers, container orchestration, service mesh, API gateways, and commercial vs. open source software.• Approaches to managing Architectural debt, Architecture governance and evolution in practice• Micro services topologies, including operational concerns such as resiliency, observability, discovery and routing, security etc. • Have experience with, and understand how to lead, legacy integration and remediation (facades, strangler approaches, et. al.)• Deep understanding of different integration patterns and best practices such as events, synchronous vs. asynchronous• University degree with above-average academic performance in a mathematical-scientific field, information technology, or business administration 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. [Click here ](https://www.bcg.com/en-us/topic/everify.aspx) for more information on E-Verify.