About the Role
We are seeking a Senior IT Architect to join our team at Boston Consulting Group. As a Senior IT Architect, you will work closely with case team members to assess and coach our clients' IT teams, define IT strategies, and architecture solutions. You will be responsible for owning the delivery for a specific project 'module' and help develop technical concepts for that 'module.'
Key Responsibilities
- Analyzing complex IT application landscapes
- Analyzing 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
- Reviewing vendor proposals and/or in-flight technical work
- IT project management and quality assurance
- Optimizing application development processes
- Advising internal colleagues on core technical concepts and frameworks
- Developing a network in the BCG technical community and leveraging it for our clients
Requirements
- [6+] 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
- 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.)
- Deep understanding of different integration patterns and best practices such as events, synchronous vs. asynchronous
- University degree with above-average academic performance in a mathematical-scientific field, information technology, or business administration
About Us
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.