Pla 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 ****.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 **** 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 **** and in **** 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 Responsibilities: You will be part of BCG Platinion and collaborate with our colleagues from BCG Strategy Consulting, Digital Ventures and Gamma to work on UK and international client projects.You will assess and coach our clients' IT teams, define IT strategies and architecture solutions, establish and manage delivery teams and roll up your sleeves to build proof of concepts and MVPs, applying your technical know-how, your understanding of business contexts and your analytical and conceptual skills.Typical tasks include:* Management of work packages/modules in critical IT implementation projects* Technical architecture, code reviews & performance of technical proofs of concept* Analysis of complex IT application landscapes, optimization of development processes and Solution Architecture * Functional and technical online and Internet strategies* IT project management and quality assurance 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 Between 6 -10 years' experience in software development, technical project management, digital delivery or technology consulting Full understanding of interdependencies between her/his own work stream and the overall project context, being able to scope and design a work stream autonomously and take responsibility for it Can run a workshop at peer level: effectively facilitating client meetings, preparing CTMs, co-leading a content topic as well as coaching other project members and able to generate trust, to be perceived by the client as a potential partner A university degree with above-average academic performance in a STEM related field Extensive technical expertise (overarching understanding of architecture, object-oriented programming languages, database design and systems, component technologies, XML standards, and current technology trends) of digital solutions on mobile devices as well as legacy environments Extensive experience in the assessment of IT target architectures in an enterprise environment, component technologies, and service-oriented architectures Experience with No-SQL and SQL DBs, also exposure to big data environments (e.g., Hadoop, Redshift) Technical experience with Cloud services and Infraestructure Who You'll Work With BCG Managing Directors and Partners (MDP's) PLA Managing Directors (MD's) BCG Consultants at all level PLA Consultants at all level Clients, vendors, and 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.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 for more information on E-Verify.