Lead IT Architect CRM/Salesforce, Platinion (Digital BCG)

Location:

London

Geography:

Europe & The Middle East

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.


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 create technology platforms and deliver exceptionally customized solutions of the future for our clients, from data strategies to next-generation customer journey solutions and transformational business models. We solve the most daunting challenges that companies face today and envision for tomorrow. Our style is entrepreneurial – nimble and innovative, with multifaceted, cross-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

At BCG Platinion we're keen to engage with experienced, passionate and creative Salesforce Architects who will help us unlock our client’s digital potential and ignite change. Meaningful work is at the core of everything we do. We build unique solutions to the complexities our clients face, while providing our people with opportunities to explore and grow. A community of leading experts, BCG Platinion team members have a natural springboard for professional growth and deeper opportunities to excel.

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

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

  • 10 + years' experience in software development, technical project management, digital delivery or technology consulting
  • Consulting experience highly desirable
  • Experience in each phase of full Salesforce.com life-cycle (especially designing, planning and implementing) 
  • As well as having experience in Salesforce.com, we will also expect you to have knowledge around other CRM platforms such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 or Adobe Marketing Cloud
  • Experience with an integrated platform solution (for instance: Mulesoft) 
  • Understanding of architectural web-based platforms (SaaS/Isaas/Paas) 
  • Specific technical expertise in at least one of the following domains:                                                               
- CRM & portals
- Commerce
- Marketing/Martech,Customer Acquisition/ Google Marketing Cloud, Service Cloud, Community Cloud and Sales Cloud projects experience
- Channel Integration, Customer Data, Analytics
- Front-end Development (architectures and practices for delivering web & mobile)
  • Approaches to managing 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.)
  • Developing MVPs to demonstrate the value of our recommendations
  • Experience of managing teams and working with clients at C-Level
  • University degree with above-average academic performance in a mathematical-scientific field, information technology, or business administration

Date Posted:

07-Jan-2022

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