PLA IT Consultant, Enterprise Solutions

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 passionate Consultants, Enterprise Solutions 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.

As a Consultant, Enterprise Solutions, you will work closely with clients to understand their issues, define IT strategies, architecture solutions, win buy-in for your recommendations, and collaborate with fellow BCGers to transform client potential into performance.

You will have operational architecture project responsibility. You will be part of the project team (s) in large, complex enterprise environments and drive operational and client service excellence. You will help your teams flourish through thought leadership, team mentoring and business development, and clients will seek your advice on business issues that extend beyond the immediate scope of your project work.

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.

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

• 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
• SAP Finance with Supply Chain background
• SAP S/4HANA
• 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
• More than 5 years of 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
• Leadership potential to transform the consulting industry around interaction with designers, engineers and product owners
• 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.)
• Deep understanding of different integration patterns and best practices
• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree preferably in an IT/Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline
• Flexibility to travel within SEA/Asia Pacific region  

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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