Lead IT Architect

Boston Consulting Group; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking consulting firm as a Lead IT Architect, where you'll leverage your extensive experience in IT architecture and CRM solutions to drive digital transformation for clients. In this pivotal role, you'll define business-aligned CRM strategies, evaluate cutting-edge platforms, and collaborate with diverse teams to maximize CRM value. With a focus on innovation and excellence, you'll lead initiatives that not only enhance customer journeys but also foster your professional growth in a dynamic environment. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of experience in IT architecture focused on CRM.
• Strong knowledge of various CRM platforms and integrations.
• University degree in a relevant field.

Responsibilities

• Define CRM strategies to optimize customer journeys.
• Evaluate and recommend CRM solutions based on business needs.
• Collaborate with clients to drive organizational change.

Skills

IT Architecture

CRM Solutions

Salesforce

Microsoft Dynamics

SAP

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving

Team Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Communication Skills

Education

University Degree in IT or Business

Tools

Salesforce

SAP CX

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Oracle

Zoho

Mulesoft

Dell Boomi

Job description

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.

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

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.

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 focused on CRM and Enterprise Solutions, you will advise clients on technology strategies, ensuring flexibility and scalability in CRM architectures.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Define business-aligned CRM strategies across sales, service, and marketing functions to optimize customer journeys.
• Evaluate and recommend CRM solutions from platforms such as Salesforce, SAP CX, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle, and Zoho based on business requirements and industry best practices.
• Analyze and reimagine end-to-end processes (Lead-to-Quote, Quote-to-Cash, Service Management, Customer Support) to maximize CRM value.
• Build compelling business cases for CRM transformation initiatives, demonstrating ROI and tangible outcomes for clients.
• Collaborate with client teams to drive organizational change, ensuring user adoption and process alignment for CRM implementations.

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 of experience in IT architecture with a strong focus on CRM solutions, in consulting, working with clients in the consumer goods, industrial goods or retail sectors.
• Demonstrated experience with CRM platforms such as Salesforce, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, or Oracle working across sales, service and marketing.
• Proven expertise in delivering complex CRM integrations with external systems (Data Lakes, ERP, analytical platforms, and messaging systems)
• Experience with commerce platforms (such as Salesforce commerce cloud, Adobe commerce, etc ) and integration platforms (such as Mulesoft, Dell Boomi, etc)
• Have experience with, and understand how to lead, legacy integration and remediation (facades, strangler approaches, et. al.)
• Overview of in modern architecture patterns: CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native development, and API-led integrations.
• Deep understanding of:
  • Different integration patterns and best practices such as events, synchronous vs. asynchronous
  • E2E business processes: Lead-to-Quote, Quote-to-Cash, Service Management, Marketing, etc.
• Analytical mindset and excellent problem-solving skills.
• Experience of managing teams.
• Strong communication skills for stakeholder engagement at all levels
• Ability to work under pressure and willingness to travel to clients world-wide
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• 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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