Platinion Director, Technology, SEA

The Boston Consulting Group; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 490,000 - 614,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Kuala Lumpur is seeking an experienced Platinion Director specializing in IT Architecture. This role involves leading transformation initiatives, advising financial institutions on IT strategies, and designing innovative solutions. The ideal candidate will have 15+ years in consultancy with strong analytical skills, a strategic mindset, and experience in enterprise architecture. The position requires flexibility to travel in the Asia Pacific region.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in a strategy or management consultancy.
• Experience within an architecture domain including enterprise or cloud.
• Excellent problem-solving ability and conceptual thinking.

Responsibilities

• Lead hybrid case teams on digital/technology transformation projects.
• Provide IT strategy and architecture advisory to clients.
• Design innovative technology solutions to solve business problems.

Skills

15+ years' experience in strategy, management or technology consultancy

Strong analytical skills

Excellent communication and consulting skills

Understanding of architecture principles

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Computer Science or related field

MBA, Masters or PhD

Tools

Enterprise architectural frameworks like TOGAF

Job description

The Boston Consulting Group – Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur

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 a Platinion Director (Technology, IT Architecture) to further grow BCG's thought leadership, capabilities and enablement. These are exciting opportunities to apply a strategic problem‑solving lens to your passion for technology, digital and innovation.

• Lead hybrid case teams on general IT, digital/technology transformation projects
• Provide IT strategy and architecture advisory to clients across Financial Institutions (FI) and/or Insurance (INS) 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 proofs of concept
• Design innovative technology solutions across various projects/clients to solve complex business problems
• 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

Locations: Kuala Lumpur | Bangkok | Singapore | Jakarta

What You’ll Bring

• 15+ years' experience in a strategy, management or technology consultancy; digital/tech start‑up and/or industry experience aligned to FI and/or INS
• Experience working within an architecture domain (enterprise, solutions, applications, big data and/or cloud)
• Knowledge and exposure to architecting solutions at an enterprise scale
• Understanding of architecture principles and exposure to architecting modern data platforms
• Experience leading high‑performing case/project/delivery teams
• Experience driving presales, proposal development through to client presentations
• 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 senior gravitas
• Enterprise architectural frameworks and methods including TOGAF and/or related certifications
• Bachelor's degree preferably in IT/Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline
• MBA, Masters or PhD will be highly regarded
• Flexibility to travel within SEA and Asia Pacific region

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. BCG is an E-Verify Employer. Click here for more information on E-Verify.