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About the Role

BCG Platinion is seeking a Lead IT Architect to join their Architecture practice, primarily serving the US Public Sector, but also open to commercial and private sector engagements. This role involves collaborating on interdisciplinary teams to develop leading IT concepts and architectural solutions, enabling organizations to technically transform.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on interdisciplinary teams of designers, engineers, researchers, technical experts, and consultants to develop leading IT concepts and architectural solutions.
• Apply technical know-how, understanding of business contexts, and analytical skills to enable organizations to technically transform.
• Design solution, application, and data architecture.
• Develop feasibility studies, technical concepts, execute technical proofs of concept, and scale software solutions.
• Perform technology assessments and implement IT architectures.
• Analyze complex IT application landscapes and status quo for IT architecture optimization.
• Review technical architecture and code.
• Support IT functions during mergers and acquisitions, including functional and technical transformation of an organization’s IT department.
• Restructure IT processes and organization.
• Optimize the application development processes.
• Design work packages/modules in IT implementation projects.
• Evaluate products, SW packages, and solutions, including comparative studies across organizations’ systems.
• Assess quality assurance for IT implementation.
• Craft compelling narratives, translating complex ideas for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Deliver impactful presentations, leading modules, presenting findings, and building consensus with clients.
• Build collaboration, mentor teams, and share knowledge to drive collective success.
• Facilitate technical and strategic working sessions and workshops with both client and internal teams.
• Provide direction on key work items and feedback to other team members.
• Manage junior team members by defining and organizing their module, helping them structure their work and associated analyses.
• Mentor and coach junior team members by building mutual development agreements and manufacturing opportunities for them to grow and develop.
• Provide quality assurance oversight - Review junior team members’ output for overall correctness, level of insight, clarity, etc.
• Promote an overall positive experience for junior staff.
• Serve as a role model by actively demonstrating and living BCG’s Culture and Values.
• Drive innovation, uncover novel ideas and transformative solutions.
• Foster a growth mindset, continuously learning and applying new skills to grow your impact.
• Build relationships with key clients.
• Assist with business development through writing proposals and scoping projects.

Requirements

• US Citizenship required.
• Active security clearance or ability to obtain a security clearance (e.g. DoD Secret / Top Secret) required.
• Prior expertise with portfolio and project management of US federal government agencies in a technology consulting context is preferred.
• Superior technical knowledge, engineering rigor, and creative problem-solving.
• Ability to explain complex technology topics to senior executives.
• Extensive technical expertise and knowledge of various technology stacks.
• Mainframe architecture (nice to have, but not must).
• Cloud native applications and cloud services architecture.
• Omnichannel architecture.
• Integration methodologies and tools.
• API and Microservices architecture.
• Structured and unstructured databases and usage patterns.
• High-speed, high-volume, high-frequency transaction processing systems.
• Real-time logging, monitoring and resiliency approaches.
• Disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
• Next gen capabilities (e.g. AI/ML, IoT, Blockchain) and component technologies.
• Data analytics architecture (e.g. Data Lake).
• Programming paradigms and approaches (e.g. object-oriented).
• Process automation approaches and tooling (e.g. DevOps, AIOps).
• Experience in agile engineering and tooling support.
• An agile mindset that moves past blockers and a vision to iteratively migrate to the next/modern set of architecture capabilities with a lens of business benefits/value.
• Gen AI tool fluency (e.g., proven usage of GenAI such as ChatGPT, Claude) and validation of response.
• Willingness to travel to work with clients and BCG teams.

Skills

• IT Architecture
• Solution Design
• Software Engineering
• Agile Methodologies
• Cloud Native Applications
• Cloud Services Architecture
• Omnichannel Architecture
• Integration Methodologies
• API Architecture
• Microservices Architecture
• Database Architecture
• High-Speed Transaction Processing
• Real-time Monitoring
• Resiliency
• Disaster Recovery
• Business Continuity Planning
• AI/ML
• IoT
• Blockchain
• Data Analytics Architecture
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Process Automation
• DevOps
• AIOps
• Gen AI Tool Fluency

Location

• Atlanta
• Austin
• Boston
• Brooklyn
• Chicago
• Dallas
• Denver
• Detroit
• Durham
• Houston
• Miami
• Minneapolis
• Nashville
• New York
• Philadelphia
• Pittsburgh
• Summit
• Washington

Work Type

• Full-time
• Travel required

Experience Level

• 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering
• 4+ years in architecture discipline

Education Level

• Bachelor's Degree in information technology, business administration, computer science, business management, or system controls & engineering or a related field.
• Master's Degree in related fields preferred.

Salary/Compensations

• First year base compensation for this role is $190,000 in USD.
• Eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus.
• Eligible for BCG’s Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution.

Benefits

• Zero-dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children.
• $10(USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs.
• Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 (USD) in orthodontia benefits.
• Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually.
• Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities.
• Fully vested retirement contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not.
• Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, and annual office closure between Christmas and New Years.
• Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement.

About the Company

• 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.
• 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.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.