About the position
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. 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 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.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate on interdisciplinary teams to develop leading IT concepts and architectural solutions.
- Apply sound technical know-how and analytical skills to enable organizations to technically transform.
- Serve primarily in the US Public Sector as part of BCG Platinion's Architecture practice.
- Align and onboard teams to implement new processes and toolsets.
- Guide organizations to optimize IT best practices.
Requirements
- 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 in various technology stacks, cloud native applications, API and Microservices architecture, and data analytics architecture.
- Experience in agile engineering and tooling support.
- Willingness to travel to work with clients and BCG teams.
Nice-to-haves
- Prior expertise with portfolio and project management of US federal government agencies in a technology consulting context.
- Mainframe architecture experience.
- Knowledge of next gen capabilities such as AI/ML, IoT, Blockchain.
Benefits
- Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children.
- Low $10 (USD) copays for doctor visits and prescriptions for generic drugs.
- Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 (USD) in orthodontia benefits.
- Vision insurance with coverage for glasses and contact lenses.
- Reimbursement for gym memberships and fitness activities.
- Fully vested retirement contributions made annually.
- Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, and annual office closure.
- Paid Parental Leave and family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement.
