Lead IT Architect

Boston Consulting Group; London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in London is seeking a Lead IT Architect to help clients unlock their digital potential, particularly in the insurance sector. This role involves defining IT strategies and leading technical solutions while mentoring junior team members. Candidates should have extensive experience in software development and a strong background in insurance technology.

Qualifications

• 10 to 15 years' experience in relevant fields.
• Prior IT consulting experience and management.
• Experience in core systems modernisation.

Responsibilities

• Work with clients to understand issues and define IT strategies.
• Develop digital and technology concepts and solutions.
• Guide junior team members and build client relationships.

Skills

Software development experience

Technical project management

Insurance technology knowledge

Cloud technologies

DevOps practices

Microservices topologies

Integration patterns understanding

Fluent in English

Education

University degree in IT or related field

Tools

Guidewire

Duck Creek

SAP Insurance

Job description

Locations: London | Amsterdam | Brussels

Who We Are

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

At BCG Platinion we're keen to engage with experienced, passionate and creative IT Architects who will help us unlock our client's digital potential and ignite change.

In particular we are looking for architects that have domain knowledge on the Insurance sector to work with our insurance clients. We will also consider applications from other domains providing that are willing to learn and develop their skills within the Insurance sector.

Meaningful work is at the core of everything we do. We build unique solutions to the complexities our clients face, while providing our people with opportunities to explore and grow. A community of leading experts, BCG Platinion team members have a natural springboard for professional growth and deeper opportunities to excel.

As a Lead IT Architect , you will work closely with clients to understand their issues, define IT strategies, architecture solutions, win buy-in for your recommendations, and collaborate with fellow BCGers to transform client potential into performance. You will be given end-to-end responsibility for larger, highly technical and more complex 'modules' within a project, and begin to develop specialized knowledge to help you solve clients' problems.

You will start to take on team lead responsibilities and demonstrate intellectual leadership Together with our clients, you will develop superior digital and technology concepts and architecture solutions as well as support technical implementations actively and on site, applying your sound technical know-how, your understanding of business contexts, and your analytical and conceptual skills.

You will also help guide junior members of the team, help with project proposals, client care, building relationships with peers and identifying new business opportunities.

Finally as a Lead IT Architect you will contribute to the Practice Area development and help to build the BCG brand as a key member of the case team.

What You'll Bring

• 10 to 15 years' experience in software development, technical project management, digital delivery or technology consulting.
• Prior IT consulting experience is a must with management experience.
• Experience of working in the insurance technology market with knowledge on core insurance processes and packages such as Guidewire, Duck Creek or DXC Graphtalk AIA, Sapiens, Keylane or SAP Insurance.
• Experience of working on core systems modernisation (such as Policy administration, claims systems or underwriting/pricing) and regulatory reporting (Solvency II or IFRS 17)
• Technical expertise working with Data and Cloud technologies.
• Overview of common development methods and tools DevOps practices and Continuous Improvement
• Ability to balance dogmatism and pragmatism to guide decision making. Articulate trade-offs and drive high-impact technology decisions on topics including (but not limited to) IaaS/PaaS providers, container orchestration, service mesh, API gateways, and commercial vs. open source software.
• Approaches to managing Architectural debt, Architecture governance and evolution in practice
• Micro services topologies, including operational concerns such as resiliency, observability, discovery and routing, security etc.
• Have experience with, and understand how to lead, legacy integration and remediation (facades, strangler approaches, et. al.).
• Deep understanding of different integration patterns and best practices such as events, synchronous vs. asynchronous.
• Ability to work under pressure and willingness to travel to clients world-wide.
• 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.
• University degree with above-average academic performance in a mathematical-scientific field, information technology, or business administration.

Additional info

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.
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