About the Role
BCG's Tech and Digital Advantage (TDA) practice focuses on helping clients deliver competitive advantage and business superior performance through data, technology and digital. BCG Platinion sits within the TDA practice and is at the heart of the strategic impact we have with our clients. Our consultants and experts globally work across all industries and provide deep experience and expertise in a wide variety of topics including Tech Advisory and Delivery, Architecture, Enterprise Solutions and Packaged Software, Cybersecurity, and Technology Risk Management. Our Tech Advisory and Delivery Chapter within BCG Platinion helps clients solve some of their most challenging problems through the development of superior IT concepts and tech solutions. The ideal candidate is both passionate as a consultant and technologist, and can bring their expertise to help develop customized, innovative client solutions.
Responsibilities
- Given end-to-end responsibility for an individual 'module' within a BCG client engagement.
- Develop specialized knowledge to help solve client problems.
- Work on a variety of cybersecurity and digital risk topics.
- Apply generalist consulting skills to strategic cybersecurity & digital risk questions.
- Address clients’ strategic, organizational, managerial, and operational issues using advanced cybersecurity methodologies, tools, and techniques.
- Understand the role technology plays in enabling businesses to execute their strategies and decompose the cybersecurity implications of this relationship.
- Analyze cybersecurity requirements, current tools, and best practices to translate into a meaningful set of recommendations tailored to a client’s unique environment and circumstances.
- Communicate complex and technical concepts in a concise and business value-centric written form.
- Implement cybersecurity transformation and culture change initiatives.
- Conduct cybersecurity assessments including gap analysis and roadmap development in multiple contexts, including organizations, product development, and cloud security.
- Develop cybersecurity strategies, policies, processes, and procedures to protect clients’ internal infrastructure and their customers.
- Understand data protection, data security, and privacy drivers that influence organizations today.
- Develop cybersecurity business strategies for technology product vendors that are integrated in the organizations overall business strategy and increase revenue and profits.
- Work with leadership teams, including facilitating board and senior management cybersecurity awareness workshops.
- Embed product security and DevSecOps practices into the software development lifecycles, system designs, and IT architectures.
- Utilize cyber risk quantification to reduce uncertainty around cyber risk and improve executive decision making.
- Create and facilitate table-top exercises.
- Deliver operational resilience through incident response, business continuity, and disaster recovery planning.
Requirements
- 4+ years of practical experience in cybersecurity consulting or cybersecurity management (with teams of five persons or more) in a variety of sectors and contexts.
- Team-oriented attitude.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills.
- Results-orientated mindset.
- Confidence and persuasiveness.
- Business-fluent written and spoken English language skills.
- Willingness to travel around the globe to work with clients and BCG teams.
- At times, this role involves significant travel to client sites. The amount of travel will depend on client needs and nature of projects.
Skills
- Cybersecurity
- Digital Risk
- Consulting
- Technology
- Data
- AI
- GenAI tool fluency (e.g., demonstrated use of GenAI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude) and validation of responses.
- Developing cybersecurity strategies or policies.
- Quantifying and managing cybersecurity risk.
- Designing, transforming, implementing, and running cybersecurity programs.
- Assessing cybersecurity risks in AI platforms.
- Integrating security into applications and systems.
- Implementing cloud security.
- Managing cybersecurity risk arising from third parties and the supply chain.
- Designing / implementing identity and access management.
- Developing and upskilling a cybersecurity workforce.
- Delivering cybersecurity culture change, awareness, and training.
- Designing continuous monitoring programs incorporating SIEM tools, APT hunting, implementing UBA, etc.
- Designing / implementing vulnerability management, including conducting vulnerability assessments.
- Performing penetration testing, incident management, BCP, and/or DRP.
- Broad knowledge of cybersecurity technologies throughout organizational and acquisition lifecycle.
- Working knowledge of at least two different cybersecurity frameworks: NIST Cybersecurity Framework, C2M2, NIST SP 800-53 and companion publications, ISO/IEC 27000 family of standards, etc., Cloud Security Alliance CCM.
Location
- Atlanta
- Austin
- Boston
- Brooklyn
- Chicago
- Dallas
- Denver
- Detroit
- Durham
- Los Angeles
- Miami
- Minneapolis
- Nashville
- New York
- Philadelphia
- Pittsburgh
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- Seattle
- Washington
- Summit
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- BS in cybersecurity, information systems, mathematics, natural sciences, business management, or similar degree.
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000
Benefits
- An opportunity to work organically across disciplines and across BCG, offering a unified and unrivaled opportunity that combines strategic thinking with hands-on applications.
- A unique experience to work alongside a team of passionate and driven problem-solvers with a mission to deliver innovative and valuable digital solutions in a supportive environment.
- 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.
- In addition to your base salary, you will also be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus and BCG's Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution.
About the Company
- Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities.
- Our success depends on a spirit of deep collaboration and a global community of diverse individuals determined to make the world and each other better every day.
- 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.
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