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Senior IT Architect

Senior IT Architect

Boston Consulting Group (BCG)Casablanca Metropolitan Area, Morocco
30+ days ago
Job description

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to solve their most important challenges and take on their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we work closely with clients to adopt a groundbreaking approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, builds 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 groundbreaking 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, motivated 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 build technology platforms and deliver customized solutions of the future for our clients, from data strategies to next-generation customer journey solutions and ground-breaking business models. We solve the most daunting challenges that companies face today and envision for tomorrow. Our style is ambitious – forward-thinking and innovative, with multifaceted, multi-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.

What You'll Do

As a Senior IT Architect, you will collaborate with case team members to assess and coach our clients IT teams, define IT strategies, architecture solutions and apply your technical know-how and understanding of business contexts. You will be responsible for leading the delivery for a specific project “module” and help develop technical concepts for that “module”. You will mentor other project members and help lead other consultants in their own work stream when possible.

As part of our BCG Platinion consulting team, you would work on a variety of technology topics, applying your architectural consulting skills to strategic technology questions. You will be supported by an extensive training curriculum (the same program as all BCG consultants), plus technology-specific training and mentoring to help you build your skills.

Developing & Designing

  • Analysing complex IT application landscapes
  • Analysing 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 case development

Controlling & Leading

  • Reviewing vendor proposals and / or in-flight technical work
  • IT project management and quality assurance
  • Optimizing application development processes

    • Building community

  • Advising internal colleagues on core technical concepts and frameworks
  • Advising fellow architects on areas relevant to an area you have depth in
  • Developing a network in the BCG technical community and maximizing it for our clients

    • What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

  • 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, requiring :
  • Strategic approach (hypothesis driven, 80 : 20 mentality, iterative approach, activist stance)
  • Leadership potential to transform the consulting industry in particular around interaction with designers, engineers and POs
  • 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 handling 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 standard processes such as events, synchronous vs. asynchronous
  • University degree with above-average academic performance in a mathematical-scientific field, information technology, or business administration

    • Who You'll Work With

  • BCG Managing Directors and Partners (MDP’s)
  • PLA Managing Directors (MD’s)
  • BCG Consultants at all levels
  • PLA Consultants at all levels
  • Clients, vendors, partners
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