BCG Platinion – Senior IT Architect
| Company | Boston Consulting Group |
|---|---|
| Location | Boston, MA, USA, Houston, TX, USA, Nashville, TN, USA, Washington, DC, USA, Summit, NJ, USA, Austin, TX, USA, Detroit, MI, USA, Miami, FL, USA, Dallas, TX, USA, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Durham, NC, USA, Chicago, IL, USA, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, New York, NY, USA, Brooklyn, NY, USA, Minneapolis, MN, USA, Denver, CO, USA, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Salary | $150000 – $150000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business administration, computer science, information systems, or system controls & engineering or a related field (Master’s degree is a plus)
- 4+ years of technology consulting or software engineering experience with more than 1 year in IT or Business architecture discipline
- Superior technical knowledge, engineering rigor, and creative problem-solving
- Ability to explain complex technology topics to senior executives
- Extensive technical expertise and knowledge along one or more of the following topics: Cloud technologies, architectures, designing cloud workloads and optimizing cloud footprint (i.e., FinOps); Integration methodologies, design patterns and associated tooling (API and Microservices architecture); Structured and unstructured databases and usage patterns; Data platform architecture and associated patterns (e.g. Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Lakehouse, etc.); Data analytics, AI and GenAI architecture; Application modernization, programming paradigms and approaches (e.g. object-oriented); Mainframe architecture; Process automation approaches and tooling (e.g. DevOps, AIOps)
- An agile mindset that moves past blockers and a vision to iteratively migrate to the 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.
Responsibilities
- Collaborative. They are interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and establish relationships ranging from cross-functional stakeholder groups to existing teams.
- 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.
- 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.
- Strategic partners. They work closely with senior client stakeholders, including C-level executives, to build hypothesis-driven solutions at the intersection of technology and business. They bridge the gap between IT and business functions, ensuring technology strategies are aligned with organizational goals to solve critical business challenges.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree is a plus