IT Architect

The Boston Consulting Group GmbH; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Singapore is looking for experienced Technology Consultants specializing in Architecture. Candidates will engage in digital transformation projects, delivering technology advisory services across various industries. Required qualifications include 3-6 years of relevant consultancy experience, a strong understanding of architecture principles, and the ability to design innovative technology solutions. This role offers opportunities to thrive in a strategic, hypothesis-based environment with flexibility to travel across the Asia Pacific region.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years' experience in a strategy, management or technology consultancy.
• Experience working within an architecture domain (solutions, applications or big data).
• Strong understanding of architecture principles.

Responsibilities

• Work with hybrid teams on digital transformation projects.
• Provide technology advisory services across industries.
• Design innovative technology solutions for complex problems.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving ability

Communication skills

Strategic mindset

Digital/technology skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline

Job description

Locations: Singapore | Kuala Lumpur | Jakarta | Bangkok

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

We are looking for experienced Technology Consultants (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.

• Work cohesively with hybrid case teams consisting of BCG/BCG Platinion on general IT, digital/technology transformation projects
• Provide technology advisory services to clients across various industry 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 proof of concepts
• Design innovative technology solutions across various projects/clients to solve complex business problems
• Analyse complex and high‑risk IT solutions, often coupled with optimization of the full software delivery lifecycle
• Facilitate workshops with clients to identify and formulate business and IT requirements for key vendor/system selections or innovation topics
• 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.

What You'll Bring

• 3-6 years' experience in a strategy, management or technology consultancy and/or industry
• Experience working within an architecture domain (solutions, applications or big data)
• Understanding of architecture principles and exposure to architecting modern data platforms
• Broad generalist digital/technology skills and knowledge
• Good understanding of emerging digital/tech topics and trends across various industries
• 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 gravitas
• Minimum of a bachelor's degree preferably in an IT/Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline
• Flexibility to travel within SEA/Asia Pacific region

• More experienced candidates may be considered for appointment at the Senior IT Architect level.

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.