Platinion Senior IT Architect
Company: Boston Consulting Group
Location: Miami
Posted on: September 18, 2023
Job Description:
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 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 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 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
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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. - - BCG
pioneered strategy consulting more than 50 years ago, and we
continue to innovate and redefine the industry. We offer multiple
career paths for the world's best talent to have a real impact on
business and society. As part of our team, you will benefit from
the breadth and diversity of what we are doing today and where we
are headed next. We count on your authenticity, exceptional work,
and strong integrity. In return we are committed to supporting you
in discovering the most fulfilling career journey and unlocking
potential to advance
FOR U.S. APPLICANTS:
Boston Consulting Group ("BCG") is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative
Action employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for
employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual
orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability,
protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic
protected by applicable law.
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. At BCG, we are committed
to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes
everything our employees and their families need to be well and
live life to the fullest. We pay the full cost of medical, dental,
and vision coverage for employees - and their eligible family
members.* That's zero dollars in premiums taken from employee
paychecks. All our plans provide best in class coverage:
- Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees,
spouses, and children
- Low $5 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits
and prescriptions for generic drugs
- Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 (USD) in orthodontia
benefits
- Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact
lenses annually
- Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness
activities
- Fully vested retirement contributions made annually, whether
you contribute or not
- Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, and annual
office closure between Christmas and New Years
- Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective
egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement *Employees,
spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in
the cost of domestic partner coverage. To learn more about our
employee benefit please check our Benefits page.
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