Lead IT Architect - Platinion - Data / Cloud - London

Lead IT Architect - Platinion - Data / Cloud - London, United Kingdom

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 work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact.

Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fuelled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.

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

As a Lead IT Architect , you will work closely with clients to understand their issues, define IT strategies and 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 specialised knowledge to help you solve clients’ problems. You will start to take on team lead responsibilities and demonstrate intellectual leadership.

As part of our BCG Platinion consulting team, you would work on a variety of technology topics, applying your architectural consulting skills to strategic technology questions. You will be supported by an extensive training curriculum (the same programme as all BCG consultants), plus technology-specific training and mentoring to help you build your skills. 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.

What You'll Bring

We are looking for an experienced IT Architect with a strong focus on data platforms and cloud strategy to join our team.

• 10 to 15 years experience in IT / Solution / Enterprise Architecture.
• Proven background in data architecture and modern data platforms.
• Hands-on architecture experience with AWS, Azure and/or GCP.
• Knowledge of data lakes, warehouses, streaming and integration patterns.
• Experience with cloud security, governance, and cost optimisation.
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience defining enterprise-wide cloud or data strategies
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
• Previous Consulting and client-facing experience is a must.
• Experience across multiple industries and large-scale transformation programmes.
• Previous team management and project managment experience is a must. 
• Ability to work under pressure and willingness to travel to clients world-wide.
• Cloud or architecture certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP, TOGAF) are nice to have.
• A bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

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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