Boston Consulting Group Looking for Digital BCG |Platinion Lead IT Architect at Chennai, Tamil Nadu Full Time

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As a seamlessly integrated part of the BCG network, we provide consulting services focused on the development and implementation of business-critical IT architecture and digital solutions. We create technology platforms and deliver exceptionally customized solutions of the future for our clients, from data strategies to next-generation customer journey solutions and transformational business models. We solve the most daunting challenges that companies face today and envision for tomorrow. Our style is entrepreneurial – nimble and innovative, with multifaceted, cross-functional teams and completely vendor-independent. Our unique selling proposition is technology expertise and delivery excellence. Platinion was founded in 2000. Since then, we have grown continuously and successfully. Today we have offices in Europe, North and South America, Asia Pacific and Africa.

Practice Area Profile

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

Building community

• Advising internal colleagues on core technical concepts and frameworks
• Advising fellow architects on areas relevant to an area you have depth in
• Developing a network in the BCG technical community and leveraging it for our clients

Developing & Designing

• Analysing complex IT application landscapes
• Analysing the status quo and optimization of IT architectures
• Identifying non-trivial technology decisions facing a client
• Storytelling about architectural building blocks and their importance
• Road mapping and business case development

Controlling & Managing

• Reviewing vendor proposals and/or in-flight technical work
• IT project management and quality assurance
• Optimizing application development processes

What You’ll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

• 10+ years’ experience in software development, technical project management, digital delivery or technology consulting
• Ability to bring unique tech perspectives from outside the consulting industry into BCG’s typical engagements, requiring:
• Consulting experience [desirable]
• Strategic mindset (hypothesis driven, 80:20 mindset, iterative approach, activist stance)
• Self-managed
• Leadership potential to transform the consulting industry in particular around interaction with designers, engineers and POs
• Progressing thought leadership in deep tech
• New (but proven) methodologies or ways of working
• Overview of common development methods and tools DevOps practices and Continuous Improvement
• Ability to balance dogmatism and pragmatism to guide decision making. Articulate trade-offs and drive high-impact technology decisions on topics including (but not limited to) IaaS/PaaS providers, container orchestration, service mesh, API gateways, and commercial vs. open-source software.
• Approaches to managing Architectural debt, Architecture governance and evolution in practice
• Micro services topologies, including operational concerns such as resiliency, observability, discovery and routing, security etc.
• Have experience with, and understand how to lead, legacy integration and remediation (facades, strangler approaches, et. al.)