Senior IT Architect - Platinion - Salesforce/CRM

Boston Consulting Group (BCG); Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative consulting firm is seeking a passionate Senior IT Architect to drive digital transformation and CRM solutions for clients. This role focuses on developing comprehensive strategies that align with enterprise goals, integrating leading CRM platforms like Salesforce and Oracle, and designing robust architectures that enhance customer experience across various functions. Join a collaborative team where your analytical skills and technical expertise will be pivotal in delivering value to clients in the consumer goods and retail sectors. If you're ready to tackle complex challenges and make a significant impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience in IT architecture focused on CRM solutions.
• University degree in a relevant field with strong academic performance.

Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive CRM strategies aligned with enterprise goals.
• Lead large-scale digital transformation projects ensuring system integration.

Skills

IT Architecture

CRM Solutions

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving

Communication Skills

Education

University degree in mathematical-scientific field

Degree in Information Technology

Degree in Business Administration

Tools

Salesforce

Microsoft Dynamics

Oracle

Tableau

Power BI

Mulesoft

Dell Boomi

Job description

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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.

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

You will work alongside a bold, energetic and collaborative team. You will evaluate and coach our clients' technology teams, define technology strategies, architect their solutions and help us design the future. You will develop and grow by being exposed to new and complex challenges daily.

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.

Your Responsibilities Will Include:

• Develop comprehensive CRM strategies that align with enterprise goals and deliver value across marketing, sales, service, and customer experience functions.
• Evaluate, compare, and integrate CRM and Commerce solutions from leading platforms (Salesforce, Microsoft, Oracle, etc.) based on client needs.
• Design robust architectures that integrate CRM and commerce solutions with ERP systems, data platforms, analytics tools (Tableau, Power BI), and external systems.
• Lead large-scale digital transformation projects, ensuring alignment of CRM solutions with ERP, data lakes, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD frameworks.
• Work with C-level stakeholders to define CRM technology roadmaps, manage build-vs-buy decisions, and ensure seamless integration across systems.

What You'll Bring

• 5 to 10 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.
• Analytical mindset and excellent problem-solving skills.
• 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.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting