Global IT Senior Director and Tech Area Lead, Finance & Procurement

The Boston Consulting Group GmbH; London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Senior Technology Leader for its Finance & Procurement Portfolio in London. You will influence the technical direction of key enterprise applications, ensuring alignment with business strategies while mentoring a team of technical experts. Candidates should have over 15 years' experience in technology leadership, with a strong focus on IT architecture and application development. This role offers a dynamic environment that encourages innovation and collaboration.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant experience, including proven leadership.
• Experience in IT architecture and application development.
• Financial literacy and understanding of budgeting.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical direction of the Finance & Procurement Portfolio.
• Ensure adherence to firm-wide technology standards.
• Develop and mentor technical personnel.

Skills

Strategic technology thinking

Mentoring

Collaboration

Negotiation

Analytical skills

Tools

Agile methodologies

IT architecture

Job description

Locations

London | Gurgaon | Boston | Atlanta

What 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

The Finance & Procurement Portfolio includes a diverse set of critical enterprise applications and custom-developed solutions that power BCG, reduce risk and drive business insights. Join this dynamic team that is enabling BCG’s finance transformation!

As Tech Area Lead of the Finance & Procurement Portfolio, you are a senior technology leader with extensive experience thinking strategically about technology development and mentoring people. You will oversee key technology decisions, be responsible for the performance metrics for the team, and oversee and develop technical personnel, including management of vendor partnerships. You will develop a close working relationship with the Portfolio Lead to ensure alignment of technical resources with business priorities and will jointly inform key stakeholders about the state and direction of the tech strategy. You will drive innovation, collaboration and knowledge sharing to benefit both the Finance & Procurement Portfolio, as well as the broader organization.

You\’re Good At

Among your responsibilities, you will:

• Drive the technical direction of the Portfolio
  • Partnering with the functional Portfolio lead to build and execute an Annual Business Review, with regular reviews throughout the year, including aligning roadmaps across teams, estimating the resources (people and budget) required to deliver on portfolio commitments, and closely monitoring the team’s progress against commitments throughout the Agile cycles
  • Establishing technological roadmaps and guardrails while regularly reviewing them to inform “how” platforms and processes work and are leveraged within Portfolios
  • Managing technological change by staying abreast of relevant technical developments and innovations in your domain (both internally and externally), and proactively analysing the impact it will have to BCG
  • Sharing relevant insights and developments within your area of expertise with all related development teams
• Ensure adherence to firm-wide technology standards, and use them to suit your Portfolio’s needs
  • Working with stakeholders across architecture, security, risk, and other COEs to ensure the Portfolio’s adherence to relevant technology standards and guidelines
  • Taking a long-term lens on adherence to standards and tools, and utilizing them to help the Portfolio succeed
• Develop people, manage knowledge, and coordinate resources within your Portfolio
  • Supporting and mentoring an organization of deep technical experts where knowledge is shared freely
  • Promoting a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation
  • Modelling Agile leadership behaviours and maintaining your own technical knowledge through learning and continuous improvement
  • Managing, gathering and providing feedback for Chapter Leads to further their skillset and career development
  • Coordinating with vendors and other stakeholders, both internally and externally, to monitor dependencies, create a cohesive tech strategy, demonstrate clear direction and supplement capacity and expertise, where needed

What You\’ll Bring

• Total 15+ years’ relevant experience, including proven experience as a technological leader, ideally having led projects spanning multiple teams or headed an IT division
• Substantial experience in IT architecture, application configuration, and development
• Negotiation capabilities to resolve trade-offs without need for escalating
• Proven analytical skills, business acumen and experience making decisions based on hard and soft data
• Financial literacy and an understanding of budget and funding processes
• A deep understanding of area of expertise and the common hurdles and challenges
• Entrepreneurial spirit and comfort working within in rapidly changing environment
• Experience in consulting is a plus

Equal Opportunity

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.