IT Manager - Platinion - Financial Services or Insurance

Boston Consulting Group; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in the UK is seeking an experienced Manager to deliver IT strategies and lead diverse teams. The ideal candidate will have 10 to 15 years of experience in technology consulting, possess strong analytical skills, and be fluent in English. This role involves working closely with clients to define customized solutions and lead project management, while also developing team members and contributing to brand growth.

Qualifications

• 10 to 15 years' experience in Tech strategy and consulting or IT project management.
• Fluent in English for candidates based in London.
• Experience in the Insurance or finance industries.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with client's leadership teams to define IT strategies.
• Deploy customized IT strategies, digital platforms, and architecture.
• Coach clients' technology teams and manage project quality.

Skills

Tech strategy and consulting

Analytical skills

Customer focus

Leadership

Communication with C-Level

Education

University degree in mathematical-scientific field

Tools

Agile methodologies

Cloud technologies

Blockchain

Job description

Responsibilities

As a Manager, you will work closely with our client's leadership teams to understand their key challenges, define IT strategies, win buy-in for your recommendations and lead BCG case team members to transform client potential into performance. You will deploy customized IT strategies, digital platforms and architecture to leverage the digital potential of our customers with state-of-the-art tools such as cloud computing, AI, blockchain, microservices and containerization. You will evaluate and coach our clients' technology teams, manage quality and risk while maintaining client expectations and escalations. Besides giving direction on the functional, execution and management of the project you will be given end-to-end responsibility for larger, highly technical and more complex modules within the project and begin to develop specialized knowledge to help you solve our clients problems. Together with our clients you will develop convincing IT strategies, concepts and solutions, applying your sound technical know-how along with your analytical and conceptual skills. You will start to take on team lead responsibilities and demonstrate intellectual leadership directing diverse teams of consulting talent. Your role will also be to help team members flourish through thought leadership, team mentoring, knowledge sharing, giving frequent feedback and creating opportunities for team members to learn and grow. You will also personally develop and grow by being exposed to new and complex challenges daily. Finally, as a Manager you will contribute to the Practice Area development and help to build the BCG brand as a digital leader.

Qualifications

• 10 to 15 years' experience in Tech strategy and consulting or IT project management.
• You will have relevant experience from a top consulting firm (focused on technology, digital initiatives) and have led the design and management of IT implementation and strategy projects.
• A strategic thinker, entrepreneurial, able to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills, strong customer focus and mental agility with a results orientation.
• Experience in the Insurance or finance industries, with strong technical expertise in banking or insurance platforms.
• Strong expertise working with Data and Cloud technologies.
• Ability to balance dogmatism and pragmatism to guide decision making.
• Able to present different architecture models to clients, develop MVP architecture and IT landscape modernisation roadmaps.
• Deep expertise with modern toolsets in Agile environments, Legacy modernization and modern approaches to technology.
• Know-how to drive operational and client service excellence, presenting project results to C-Level.
• Have experience with, and understand how to lead, Legacy integration and remediation (facades, strangler approaches, et. al.).
• Ability to work under pressure and willingness to travel to clients world-wide.
• University degree with above-average academic performance in a mathematical-scientific field, information technology, engineering, or business administration.
• For candidates based in London: Fluent in English.
• For candidates based in The Netherlands: Fluent in English; Dutch is highly desirable.
• For candidates based in Belgium: Fluent in English, with French or Flemish as an additional requirement.

Company Overview

The 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. Practice Area 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 As a seamlessly integrated part of the BCG network, we provide consulting services focused on the development and implementation of business-critical IT architecture and digital solutions. We create technology platforms and deliver exceptionally customized solutions of the future for our clients, from data strategies to next-generation customer journey solutions and transformational business models. We solve the most daunting challenges that companies face today and envision for tomorrow. Our style is entrepreneurial - nimble and innovative, with multifaceted, cross-functional teams and completely vendor-independent. Our unique selling proposition is technology expertise and delivery.