BCG Platinion | Lead IT Architect at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Houston, TX

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 challenges. 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.

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.

What You'll Do

Lead IT Architects at BCG Platinion are:

Collaborative. They are interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and establish relationships ranging from cross-functional stakeholder groups to existing teams.
Technical experts. They are critical thinkers and have extensive IT expertise that drives novel solutions routed in complexity.
Comfortable with ambiguity. They know the path forward isn't always well-defined. They are comfortable and confident working through the unknown.
Change agents. They know how to make change happen across an organization. They can align and onboard teams to implement new processes and toolsets. They embrace complex challenges and guide an organization to optimize IT best practices.
Agile advocates. They are well-versed in agile methodologies and use their expertise to strategically tackle difficult challenges and implement change.
Innovative. They are creative thinkers who apply their deep IT architecture expertise to envision novel design patterns for the next generation of technology solutions.
Knowledgeable. They have a sophisticated understanding of IT Architecture, acting as a viable resource on teams as both a hands-on practitioner and subject matter expert.
Strategic partners. They work closely with senior client stakeholders, including C-level executives, to build hypothesis-driven solutions at the intersection of technology and business. They bridge the gap between IT and business functions, ensuring technology strategies are aligned with organizational goals to solve critical business challenges.

What You Are Good At

IT Architecture and Solution Design

Designing solution, application, and data architecture
Developing feasibility studies, technical concepts, executing technical proofs of concept, and scaling software solutions
Performing technology assessments and implementing IT architectures
Analyzing complex IT application landscapes and status quo for IT architecture optimization
Reviewing technical architecture and code

IT Optimization and Transformation

Supporting IT functions during mergers and acquisitions, including the functional and technical transformation of an organization's IT department
Restructuring IT processes and organization
Optimizing the application development processes

Implementation management and support

Designing work packages/modules in IT implementation projects
Evaluating products, SW packages, and solutions, including comparative studies across organizations' systems (e.g., ERPs, HR systems, Data Analytics)
Assessing quality assurance for IT implementation

Communication and Collaboration

Crafting compelling narratives, translating complex ideas for both technical and non-technical audiences
Delivering impactful presentations, leading modules, presenting findings, and building consensus with clients
Building collaboration, mentoring teams, and sharing knowledge to drive collective success
Facilitating technical and strategic working sessions and workshops with both client and internal teams
Providing direction on key work items and feedback to other team members

Team Management

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 along explicitly defined objectives
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

Innovation and Growth

Driving innovation, uncovering novel ideas and transformative solutions
Fostering a growth mindset, continuously learning and applying new skills to grow your impact
Building relationships with key clients
Assisting with business development through writing proposals and scoping projects

What You'll Bring

Bachelor's degree in information technology, business administration, computer science, information systems, or system controls & engineering or a related field (Master's degree is a plus)
6+ years of technology consulting or software engineering experience with more than 3+ years in architecture discipline
Excellent communication and presentation skills, ability to act as a trusted advisor and influence clients and BCG case leadership teams
Outstanding ability to work creatively, autonomously, analytically, in a fast-paced problem-solving environment with a focus on customer and results
Superior technical knowledge, engineering rigor, and creative problem-solving
Ability to explain complex technology topics to senior executives
Extensive technical expertise and knowledge along multiple of the following topics:
- Cloud technologies, architectures, designing cloud workloads and optimizing cloud footprint (i.e., FinOps)
- Integration methodologies, design patterns and associated tooling (API and Microservices architecture)
- Structured and unstructured databases and usage patterns
- Data platform architecture and associated patterns (e.g. Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Lakehouse, etc.)
- Data analytics, AI and GenAI architecture
- Application modernization, programming paradigms and approaches (e.g. object-oriented)
- Mainframe architecture
- Process automation approaches and tooling (e.g. DevOps, AIOps)
An agile mindset that moves past blockers and a vision to iteratively migrate to the modern set of architecture capabilities with a lens of business benefits/value
Willingness to travel 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

Additional info

What We Offer:

At BCG, we care about our people, and offer best in class benefits to support you personally and professionally throughout your different life experiences including:

An opportunity to work organically across disciplines and across BCG, we offer 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. BCG pioneered strategy consulting more than 50 years ago, and we continue to innovate and redefine the industry. We offer multiple career paths for the world's best talent to have a real impact on business and society. As part of our team, you will benefit from the breadth and diversity of what we are doing today and where we are headed next. We count on your authenticity, exceptional work, and strong integrity. In return we are committed to supporting you in discovering the most fulfilling career journey possible-and unlocking your potential to advance the world.

FOR U.S. APPLICANTS:

The base compensation for this role is $190,000 in USD. 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. BCG also provides a market leading benefits package described below. At BCG, we are committed to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes everything our employees and their families need to be well and live life to the fullest. We pay the full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees - and their eligible family members. That's zero dollars in premiums taken from employee paychecks.

All our plans provide best in class coverage:

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
Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.
To learn more about our employee benefit please check ourBCG Benefits page.

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