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'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.
Practice Area Profile
BCG Platinion launched in Germany in 2000 to add deep technical expertise to
the Boston Consulting Group's existing capabilities. Today, our presence
spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and
North America. Our New York-based North American team began in 2014 and in
2017 acquiredMAYA Design, a Pittsburgh-based digital design and innovation
lab, to grow our capabilities around technology and design.We support our
clients' total digital transformation through technology, design,
cybersecurity, and risk management & financial engineering capabilities.
And together with BCG, BCG Platinion's interdisciplinary team of technical
experts enable customized technical solutions and accelerate delivery value
through new business platforms, application consolidations, and major
system im
What You'll Do
What You'll Do: As an IT Consultant at BCG Platinion, 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 toenable organizations to technically transform.
IT Architects at BCG Platinion are:
Collaborative. They are interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and
establish relationships ranging from cross-functional stakeholder groups to
existing teams.
Comfortable with ambiguity. They know the path forward isn't always
well-defined. They are comfortable and confident working through the unknown.
Technical experts. They are critical thinkers and have extensive IT expertise
that drives novel solutions routed in complexity.
Generalists. They have a solid technical foundation and wide range of
experience to guide any client on any challenge, agnostic of industry.
Change agents. They know how to make change happen across an organization.
They can align and onboard teams to implement new processes and toolsets. They
embrace complex challenges and guide an organization to optimize IT best
practices.
You're Good At:
Solution and application architecture and evaluation of alternative approaches
Restructuring IT processes and organization
Supporting IT functions during mergers and acquisitions, including the
functional and technical transformation of an organization's IT department
Evaluating an organization's IT and software architecture
Assessing and implementing IT architectures
Evaluating products, such as core systems
Developing technical concepts development and designing of software solutions
Assessing quality assurance for IT implementation
Designing and implementing feasibility studies
Designing work packages/modules in IT implementation projects
Reviewing technical architecture and code
Executing technical proofs of concept
Analyzing complex IT application landscapes and status quo for IT architecture
optimization
Developing functional and technical online and Internet strategies
Optimizing the application development processes
Contribute to BCG Platinion's consulting business by:
Assisting with business development through writing proposals, scoping
projects
Contributing to our thought leadership through written publications and
speaking at events and conferences
What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)
You bring:
Bachelor's Degree in information technology, business administration,
computer science, business management, or system controls & engineering