DBCG - India - Platinion Senior IT Architect

Location:

Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi

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

We are looking for an experienced Solutions/Technology Architects ideally with experience in Data Analytics, Artificial intelligence or Machine Learning, or alternatively within Cloud, API, Infrastructure, Cyber/Information Security domains.

Responsibilities: You will be part of BCG Platinion and collaborate with our colleagues from BCG Strategy Consulting, Digital Ventures and Gamma to work on UK and international client projects. You will assess and coach our clients' IT teams, define IT strategies and architecture solutions, establish and manage delivery teams and roll up your sleeves to build proof of concepts and MVPs, applying your technical know-how, your understanding of business contexts and your analytical and conceptual skills.

Typical tasks include:

Management of work packages/modules in critical IT implementation projects
Technical architecture, code reviews & performance of technical proofs of concept
Analysis of complex IT application landscapes, optimization of development processes and Solution Architecture
Functional and technical online and Internet strategies
IT project management and quality assurance

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

Qualifications, Desired Skills and Experience:

Full understanding of interdependencies between her/his own work stream and the overall project context, being able to scope and design a work stream autonomously and take responsibility for it
Can run a workshop at peer level: effectively facilitating client meetings, preparing CTMs, co-leading a content topic as well as coaching other project members and able to generate trust, to be perceived by the client as a potential partner
A university degree with above-average academic performance in a STEM related field
Significant professional experience in the field of professional software development or IT project management using Waterfall and Agile methodologies
Extensive technical expertise (overarching understanding of architecture, object-oriented programming languages, database design and systems, component technologies, XML standards, and current technology trends) of digital solutions on mobile devices as well as legacy environments
Extensive experience in the assessment of IT target architectures in an enterprise environment, component technologies, and service-oriented architectures
Experience with No-SQL and SQL DBs, also exposure to big data environments (e.g., Hadoop, Redshift)
Technical experience of PaaS/IaaS platforms such as Pivotal, Heroku, AWS, Azure

Role is located in India
We are looking for career-minded professionals with experience in one or more of the following:

-IT consulting on complex digital and analytics transformations
-Digital Strategy & Transformation, IT Modernization
-Solution and Enterprise Architecture
-DevOps, Agile & Bimodal IT
-Cloud, Infrastructure & Operations
-Robotic Process Automation, AI and Cognitive Computing
-Web, Mobile, IoT and Blockchain Application Development
-Data Architecture, Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning
-Cyber Security & Risk Consulting

Date Posted:

30-Aug-2018

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