Lead/Principal IT Architect, Public Sector Industry Leader

3 weeks ago

Boston, United States Boston Consulting Group Full time

Locations: Washington | New York | Atlanta | Pittsburgh | Philadelphia | Boston

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.

BCG Platinion

For organizations, the digital imperative is a moving target. It’s not enough to simply keep up with today’s challenges. Organizations need to anticipate tomorrow’s digital landscape to maintain competitive advantage. BCG Platinion brings the tech capabilities our clients need to achieve digital excellence. At our core, we are a team of driven problem-solvers fueled by a passionate dedication to set the pace of what’s next.

What You'll Do

At BCG Platinion, we’re bringing design to the front line of business challenges, creating work that solves problems in novel, feasible, and desirable ways. Our team applies a discovery-driven approach in order to create innovative and exciting end-to-end experiences at the intersection of people and technology. As a Lead or Principal Architect, you will collaborate on interdisciplinary teams of designers, engineers, researchers, technical experts, and consultants to develop leading IT concepts and architectural solutions. In this role, you will apply your sound technical know-how, understanding of business contexts, and analytical skills to enable organizations to technically transform.

NOTE: This role is specifically seeking a leader to serve primarily in the US Public Sector as part of BCG Platinion’s Architecture practice, but also open to commercial and private sector engagements where required.

Ideal candidate requirements include US Citizenship, active security clearance or ability to obtain a security clearance (e.g. DoD Secret / Top Secret), prior expertise with portfolio and project management of US federal government agencies in a technology consulting context is preferred.

Lead or Principal Architects at BCG Platinion are:

  • 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.
  • Collaborative. They are interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and establish relationships ranging from cross-functional stakeholder groups to existing teams.
  • 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.

What You'll Bring

  • Masters in information technology, business administration, computer science, business management, or system controls & engineering or a related field.
  • 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering with more than 4 years in architecture discipline.
  • Superior technical knowledge, engineering rigor, and creative problem-solving.
  • Ability to explain complex technology topics to senior executives.
  • 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
    • Next gen capabilities (e.g. AI/ML, IoT, Blockchain) and component technologies
    • Data analytics architecture (e.g. Data Lake)
    • Programming paradigms and approaches (e.g. object-oriented)
    • Process automation approaches and tooling (e.g. DevOps, AIOps)
  • 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.
  • 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.

What We Offer:

  • 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.

FOR U.S. APPLICANTS:

The first year base compensation for this role is $180,000 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.

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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