IT Architect

Location:

Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney

Geography:

Asia Pacific

Capabilities:

Technology & digital

Industries:

Technology industries

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 work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build 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 leading-edge 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, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.

Practice Area Profile

The Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) practice works with companies across the digital device, software, IT services, TV, publishing, information services, entertainment and telecom sectors to make sense of the unrelenting velocity of technological and consumer change they face. We partner with clients to transform their industries, define winning business models, shape their value proposition and go-to-market approach, enhance their operational competitiveness, and create sustained advantage.

What You'll Do


Digital BCG is focused on the possibilities that technology can contribute to high value digital transformations together with our clients. As a core part of the BCG network, we provide consulting services focused on business-critical IT architectures and digital solutions. Our topics cover IT and data architecture design, cloud strategies, cybersecurity, and implementation management. We partner with our clients to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and implement their key initiatives often to enable their large-scale digital transformations. 
  • Digital BCG brings deep experience in technology. 
  • Our consultants apply their deep understanding of digital solutions to create market-leading solutions. 
  • We focus on delivering outcomes. 
  • Our teams collaborate closely with our clients to ensure success.

We are looking for experienced IT Architects/Technology Consultants to further grow our team within BCG Platinion helping us to work on thought leadership, deep digital capabilities and client enablement. These are exciting opportunities for IT Architects/Technology Consultants with the ability to consult clients on large scale and complex environments. 

BCG Platinion is our home for experienced and innovative technologists within Digital BCG. We will help you grow your leadership capabilities and skills across a range of architecture disciplines. 

Key responsibilities include
  • Work cohesively with hybrid case teams consisting of BCG/BCG Digital on IT/technology transformation projects. 
  • Assess solution architecture and landscape, define target state and develop roadmaps. 
  • Assist define and drive implementation of technical architectures and proof of concepts. 
  • Align business and technology strategies to deliver impactful insights and outcomes jointly with client management. 
  • Design innovative technology solutions across various projects/clients to solve complex business problems. 
  • Analyze complex and high-risk IT solutions, often coupled with optimization of the full software delivery lifecycle. 
  • Drive innovation for our clients by leveraging cross-industry views on technology trends. 
  • Actively network, manage and influence multiple client and stakeholder relationship groups including senior executives. 

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

Skills, experience and qualifications
  • A minimum of 4 years’ experience in an IT strategy, technology consulting firm and/or within a large corporate environment. 
  • Exposure to working within an Architecture area (Enterprise, Solutions or Applications). 
  • Knowledge and exposure to architecting solutions at an enterprise scale. 
  • Understanding of enterprise architecture principles and exposure to architecting modern data platforms. 
  • Broad generalist Digital/Technology skills and knowledge. 
  • Excellent communication, client facing and consulting skills. 
  • Ability to communicate to target audience including storylining.   
  • Strategic mindset, presence and gravitas. 
  • A Bachelor or Master’s degree, preferably in an IT/Computer Science or related discipline. 
  • Enterprise architectural frameworks and methods including TOGAF and/or related certifications 
  • Flexibility to travel interstate or international as required. 
At BCG we are always looking for our people to be analytical and question. We want people to work creatively in what can be a time-limited, problem-solving environment. The customer is at the core of everything we do, so the ability build and earn the trust of the clients is key. Understating how do we add value for our client. We pride ourselves on being highly professional and rigorous with the ability to think strategically from end-to-end. In turn you will be given the opportunity to work on some key projects and programs within the country with highly regarded clients. 

The 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. 

Date Posted:

20-Dec-2018

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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