IT Architect | Senior IT Architect

The Boston Consulting Group GmbH; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm seeks an experienced Platinion IT Architect to drive technology transformation projects. The role involves working with diverse teams, providing technology advisory services, and designing innovative solutions to complex business challenges. Ideal candidates will have a strategic mindset, strong analytical skills, and a bachelor's degree in IT or related fields. Flexibility to travel is required.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years' experience in strategy, management or technology consultancy.
• Experience in architecture domain (solutions, applications or big data).

Responsibilities

• Work with hybrid case teams on IT and digital transformation projects.
• Provide technology advisory services across various industry sectors.
• Design innovative technology solutions to solve complex business problems.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Problem Solving

Communication

Strategic Mindset

Education

Bachelor's Degree in IT/Computer Science

Job description

Locations: Sydney | Melbourne | Perth

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 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.

What You'll Do

We are looking for an experienced Platinion IT Architect to further grow BCG's thought leadership, capabilities, and enablement. This is an exciting opportunity 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

• 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

Additional info

Diversity of thought, background, and experience is a core part of our BCG values and is key to how we deliver value to clients. We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, connected, empowered to be themselves and contribute to their fullest potential. Applications are encouraged from people of all backgrounds, including Indigenous Australians, individuals with disability, those from culturally or linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTIQA+ individuals, women, and gender-diverse individuals. We want to make sure everyone experiences a positive, barrier-free recruiting process.

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