Platinion Senior 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 As a seamlessly integrated part of the BCG network, we provide consulting services focused on the development and implementation of business-critical IT architecture and digital solutions. We create technology platforms and deliver exceptionally customized solutions of the future for our clients, from data strategies to next-generation customer journey solutions and transformational business models. We solve the most daunting challenges that companies face today and envision for tomorrow. Our style is entrepreneurial - nimble and innovative, with multifaceted, cross-functional teams and completely vendor-independent. Our unique selling proposition is technology expertise and delivery excellence.

Platinion was founded in 2000. Since then, we have grown continuously and successfully. Today we have offices in Europe, North and South America, Asia Pacific and Africa.

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

We are looking for experienced Technology Consultants (Architecture) to further grow BCG's thought leadership, capabilities and enablement. These are exciting opportunities to apply a strategic problem-solving lens to your passion for technology, digital and innovation.

Work cohesively with hybrid case teams consisting of BCG/DigitalBCG on general IT, digital/technology transformation projects
Provide technology advisory services to clients across various industry sectors
Align business and technology strategies to deliver impactful insights and outcomes jointly with client management
Assess current state technology landscape, define target state and develop transition roadmaps
Assist, define and drive implementation of technical architectures and proof of concepts
Design innovative technology solutions across various projects/clients to solve complex business problems
Analyse complex and high-risk IT solutions, often coupled with optimization of the full software delivery lifecycle
Facilitate workshops with clients to identify and formulate business and IT requirements for key vendor/system selections or innovation topics
Drive innovation for our clients by leveraging cross-industry views on technology trends
Actively network, manage and influence multiple client and stakeholder relationship groups including senior executives.

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

3-6 years' experience in a strategy, management or technology consultancy and/or industry
Experience working within an architecture domain (solutions, applications or big data)
Understanding of architecture principles and exposure to architecting modern data platforms
Broad generalist digital/technology skills and knowledge
Good understanding of emerging digital/tech topics and trends across various industries
Thrive in a hypothesis-based environment and ability to frame strategic challenges from a digital/tech perspective
Strong analytical skills, problem solving ability and conceptual thinking
Excellent communication, storylining, client facing and consulting skills
Strategic mindset, presence and gravitas
Minimum of a bachelor's degree preferably in an IT/Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline
* Flexibility to travel within SEA/Asia Pacific region (once restrictions allow).