Platinion Principal or Associate Director, IT Architecture

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 work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact.
Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.
BCG Platinion As a seamlessly integrated part of the BCG network, we provide consulting services focused on the development and implementation of business-critical IT architecture and digital solutions. We create technology platforms and deliver exceptionally customized solutions of the future for our clients, from data strategies to next-generation customer journey solutions and transformational business models. We solve the most daunting challenges that companies face today and envision for tomorrow. Our style is entrepreneurial – nimble and innovative, with multifaceted, cross-functional teams and completely vendor-independent. Our unique selling proposition is technology expertise and delivery excellence.
Platinion was founded in 2000. Since then, we have grown continuously and successfully. Today we have offices in Europe, North and South America, Asia Pacific and Africa.
Practice Area Profile
BCG Platinion launched in Germany in 2000 to add deep technical expertise to the Boston Consulting Groups 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 Platinions interdisciplinary team of technical experts enable customized technical solutions and accelerate delivery value through new business platforms, application consolidations, and major system implementations.
What Youll Do
We are looking for Platinion Principal IT Architect or Associate Director (Enterprise, Solution or Cloud) 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.
You will:

• Work cohesively in hybrid case teams consisting of BCG/Digital BCG on general IT, digital/technology transformation projects
• Provide IT strategy and architecture advisory to clients across Financial Institutions (FI) and/or Insurance (INS) sectors
• Align business and technology strategies to deliver impactful insights and outcomes jointly with client management
• Assess current state technology landscape, define target state and develop transition roadmaps
• Assist, define and drive implementation of technical architectures and proof of concepts
• Design innovative technology solutions across various projects/clients to solve complex business problems
• Drive innovation for our clients by leveraging cross-industry views on technology trends
• Actively network, manage and influence multiple client and stakeholder relationship groups including senior executives.

What Youll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

• 10+ years’ experience in a strategy, management or technology consultancy; digital/tech start-up and/or industry experience aligned to FI and/or INS
• Experience working within an architecture domain (enterprise, solutions, applications, big data and/or cloud)
• Knowledge and exposure to architecting solutions at an enterprise scale
• Understanding of architecture principles and exposure to architecting modern data platforms
• Experience leading high performing case/project/delivery teams
• Experience driving presales, proposal development through to client presentations
• Thrive in a hypothesis-based environment and ability to frame strategic challenges from a digital/tech perspective
• Strong analytical skills, problem solving ability and conceptual thinking
• Excellent communication, storylining, client facing and consulting skills
• Strategic mindset, presence and senior gravitas
• Enterprise architectural frameworks and methods including TOGAF and/or related certifications
• Bachelors degree preferably in an IT/Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline
• MBA, Masters or PhD will be highly regarded
• Flexibility to travel within SEA and Asia Pacific region