Lead IT Architect

Job Title: Lead IT Architect - Insurance Domain

Locations: London, Amsterdam, Brussels

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. With a rich history dating back to 1963, BCG has been a pioneer in business strategy. Today, we help clients achieve total transformation by inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise, as well as a range of perspectives to spark change. We deliver solutions through leading-edge management consulting, 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's presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. We achieve digital excellence for clients with sustained solutions to the most complex and time-sensitive challenges. We guide clients into the future to push the status quo, overcome tech limitations, and enable our clients to go further in their digital journeys than what has ever been possible in the past.

At BCG Platinion, we deliver business value through the innovative use of technology at a rapid pace. We roll up our sleeves to transform business, revolutionize approaches, satisfy customers, and change the game through Architecture, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Application, and Risk functions. We balance vision with a pragmatic path to change, transforming strategies into leading-edge tech platforms, at scale.

BCG Platinion launched in Germany in 2000 to add deep technical expertise to the Boston Consulting Group's 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, we 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. Together with BCG, BCG Platinion's interdisciplinary team of technical experts enables customized technical solutions and accelerates delivery value through new business platforms, application consolidations, and major system implementations.

As a Lead IT Architect, you will work closely with clients to understand their issues, define IT strategies, architecture solutions, win buy-in for your recommendations, and collaborate with fellow BCGers to transform client potential into performance.

You will be given end-to-end responsibility for larger, highly technical and more complex 'modules' within a project, and begin to develop specialized knowledge to help you solve clients' problems.

You will start to take on team lead responsibilities and demonstrate intellectual leadership. Together with our clients, you will develop superior digital and technology concepts and architecture solutions, as well as support technical implementations actively and on site, applying your sound technical know-how, your understanding of business contexts, and your analytical and conceptual skills.

You will also help guide junior members of the team, assist with project proposals, client care, build relationships with peers, and identify new business opportunities.

Finally, as a Lead IT Architect, you will contribute to the Practice Area development and help to build the BCG brand as a key member of the case team.

• 10 to 15 years' experience in software development, technical project management, digital delivery, or technology consulting.
• Prior IT consulting experience is a must, with management experience.
• Experience working in the Insurance domain, with experience of working on one or multiple Insurance solutions, is highly desirable. We will however also consider applications from other domains that are willing to learn and develop their skills within the Insurance sector.
• Strong technical expertise working with Data and Cloud technologies.
• 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.
• Microservices 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.
• Ability to work under pressure and willingness to travel to clients worldwide.
• University degree with above-average academic performance in a mathematical-scientific field, information technology, or business administration.
• For candidates based in London: Fluent in English.
• For candidates based in the Netherlands: Fluent in English; Dutch is highly desirable.
• For candidates based in Belgium: Fluent in English, with French or Flemish as an additional requirement.

Additional Info:

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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