IT Solution Architect

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. 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. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. To realize our digital transformation, we need to transform our products, experiences, processes, technology and how we operate. As solution architect, you will define and design and validate implementation of technology solutions that optimize our solutions for rapid innovation while also making sure we manage risks such as cyber security and operational resilience. Digital Collaboration is one of our organization’s widest and strategic portfolios. To this effect, you will be challenged to bridge enterprise architecture and engineering, facilitating the design of multiple services, products and solutions within the Digital Collaboration portfolio across our messaging, collaboration, and productivity platforms. You will provide key architecture vision and roadmap direction for our Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace platforms, as well as a wealth of other products in this space, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and compliance frameworks.
You will craft AI-led designs, optimizing against many requirements such as functional needs, quality attributes (e.g., cloud and API enablement). You will document architecture views, deliver architecture artifacts required by the delivery process, and validate that solutions built are done according to the architectural design. You will propose architectural epics and stories to implement the architectural runway and clear technical debt, document quality attributes in epics & stories, and define acceptance criteria. Finally, you will drive teams to maximize the automation in their deployment pipeline for effective scaling and resiliency.
The same is true for identifying risks within proposed architectures and developing mitigation plans, ensuring that our solutions are scalable and sustainable for operations.

To be successful, you should bring sound development and architecture experience leveraging technologies to drive technical governance, innovation, integration and cloud-oriented strategies. Servicing customers with a strong business orientation and connecting with skilled engineers
Building relationships and reliable team player, displaying consideration and respect for others
Being flexible to be available outside of normal business hours for international calls as needed


Bachelor’s or greater degree
~7+ years of experience in IT architecture with 5+ years in workplace or M365-focused domains
~ Demonstrated experience in Agile architecture delivery and cross-functional team collaboration
~ Microsoft Certified: M365 Enterprise Administrator Expert
~ Azure Solutions Architect or similar
~ Familiarity with GDPR, DLP, and data privacy standards

Solution Design and Implementation across collaboration and productivity platforms
Target Conceptual and Logical Architecture design
IT Risk Management and Governance Principles
Exchange Online, Outlook, Superhuman
Chat: Microsoft Teams
SharePoint, OneDrive, Planner and Loop
Virtual Meetings: Microsoft Teams
Architecture documentation, RAID logs, M365 and Google Workspace governance and compliance controls
Strong experience with Greenfield major system builds and Agile delivery methodologies
Familiarity with Digital Design Principles and modern architecture frameworks
Familiarity with Generative AI technology (i.e. and its potential application in collaboration scenarios
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving in complex digital workplace ecosystems
Systems Thinking to connect architecture decisions across domains and platforms
Prioritization and Managing Expectations in a multi-stakeholder, agile environment
This role will work closely with the engineers, product owners, and other solution/domain architects within the Digital Collaboration Portfolio mostly focused on M365 environment. Additionally, you will partner with our other digital portfolios on major system designs and integrations. You can expect to spend significant time working together with our security and user experience teams on designs to ensure our user obsession comes through in the quality of our designs while simultaneously securing by design. Finally, as part of the architecture guild, you’ll work together with other architects around the world, including solution architects, domain architects, and enterprise architecture.


Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, retirement contribution, and a market leading benefits package described below.
~ In addition to your base salary, your total compensation will include a bonus of up to 20% and a generous retirement contribution that starts at 5% and moves to 10% after 2 years.

Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children
Low $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs
Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 in orthodontia benefits
Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities
Fully vested Profit Sharing Retirement Fund contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not, plus the option for employees to make personal contributions to a 401(k) plan
Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement
Generous paid time off including 12 holidays per year, an annual office closure between Christmas and New Years, and 15 vacation days per year (earned at 1.25 days per month)