Senior IT Consultant, Platinion - Private Equity, BCG Platinion

Location:

London

Geography:

Europe & The Middle East

Capabilities:

M&A and divestitures, Postmerger integration, 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.

Practice Area Profile

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 challenge.  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.

What You'll Do

At BCG Platinion we're keen to engage with experienced, passionate and creative IT consultants who will help us unlock our client’s digital potential and ignite change.

You will live at the intersection of strategy, private equity and technology

As a consultant within our technology & digital functional practice aligned to our Principal Investors & Private Equity Practice Area (PIPE) industry practice, you will support top-tier private equity firms to address their most strategic technology questions across the deal lifecycle

You will hone your ability to provide razor-sharp, industry-specific and impactful insights in a high performance and dynamic environment comprised of multidisciplinary stakeholders – a unique mix of C-Level (CTO/CIO/CEO), Investment Professionals and BCG industry stalwarts

You will be supported by extensive BCG commercial & industry expertise & training, enriched with technology-specific modules covering Enterprise Solutions, Architecture, Cloud, Data & Analytics, Cybersecurity, et al to help.

BCG’s tech & digital in PIPE practice differentiates from the competition through bringing real-world technology experts to determine deal and commercial implications: our highly skilled team consists of battle-proven technologists such as ex CTO, ex CDO, full stack developers, ex Cyber warfare commanders, Digital Product Owners from the world's leading brands, and innovative AI/ML researchers

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

  • 5 to 10 years’ experience of digital transformation experience in consulting or industry with projects / experience around in one or more of the following areas:
    • Application modernisation incl ERP programmes
    • Cloud migration, engineering and/or vendor certifications
    • System integration patterns, incl familiarity with ETL or API management tools
    • Data architecture & advanced analytics
    • DevOps; SRE
    • SDLC and agile delivery
    • IT cost reduction
  • 1-3+ years managing small, high-performance teams (2+ team members) including exposure to team recruitment, asset & offering/IP development, training / mentoring and general operations
  • Beneficial to have experience in M&A and/or strong aptitude and interest, e.g.:
    • Interfacing with bankers, lawyers, target management and PE associates / managers
    • Understanding of PE investment criteria and fundamentals of corporate finance
    • Due diligence, carve out and/or PMI experience
  • If you have the tech experience but no M&A experience but a keen hunger to move into this space, guidance and training will be given to the right candidates.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence commercial & technical audiences alike:
    • Strong verbal skills and the EQ to know when to push back and when to listen
    • Excellent written communication based on prior experience with consulting
  • University degree with strong academic performance. If in fields other than mathematical-scientific field, information technology, or business administration, then professional subsequent development should demonstrate skills build in areas related to software and technology.

Date Posted:

24-Mar-2023

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