Principal IT Architect - Johannesburg, South Africa - Boston Consulting Group

Boston Consulting Group

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Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

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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.

Digital BCG:

BCG has a long history of driving growth by embracing innovation and new ways of thinking.

Through DigitalBCG, we bring together a diverse mix of consultants and digital specialists to ensure that we are supporting our clients throughout their digital transformation journeys.

We work with our clients to fully understand the impact of digital on their business and set priorities that will transform their vision into value.

Whether it be developing new technologies to support their core business, making better use of their data, or pursuing entirely new sources of revenue, our aim is to achieve radical improvements in productivity, flexibility, and speed.

We are innovating how our clients are using artificial intelligence, robotic process automation, internet of things, personalization, blockchain technologies, and more to gain competitive advantage.

DigitalBCG encompasses a broad set of data, digital, and technology capabilities from BCG consulting teams and practices, along with our business units such as BCG Digital Ventures, BCG Platinion, and BCG GAMMA.

BCG Platinion

As a seamlessly integrated part of the BCG network, we provide consulting services focused on the development and implementation of businesscritical IT architecture and digital solutions. We create technology platforms and deliver exceptionally customized solutions of the future for our clients, from data strategies to nextgeneration 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, crossfunctional teams and completely vendorindependent. 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:

What You'll Do:

As a Principal 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:

Developing & Designing:

Analysing the status quo and optimization of IT architectures
Identifying nontrivial technology decisions facing a client
Storytelling about architectural building blocks and their importance
Road mapping and business case development

Controlling & Managing:

Reviewing vendor proposals and/or inflight technical work
IT project management and quality assurance

Building community:

Advising internal colleagues on core technical concepts and frameworks
Advising fellow architects on areas relevant to an area you have depth in
Developing a network in the BCG technical community and leveraging it for our clients

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications):

15+ years' experience in software development, technical project management, digital delivery or technology consulting
Ability to bring unique tech perspectives from outside the consulting industry into BCG's typical engagements, requiring:
Consulting experience (required)
Strategic mindset (hypothesis driven, 80:20 mindset, iterative approach, activist stance)
Selfmanaged
Leadership potential to transform the consulting industry in particular around interaction with designers, engineers and POs
Progressing thought leadership in deep tech
New (but proven) methodologies or ways of working
Overview of common development methods and tools DevOps practices and Continuous Improvement
Ability to balan