Principal IT Architect

• As a Principal IT Architect, you will work closely with clients to understand their issues, define IT strategies, and 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 complex IT application landscapes
• Analysing the status quo and optimization of IT architectures
• Identifying non-trivial 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 in-flight technical work
• IT project management and quality assurance
• Optimizing application development processes

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)
• Self-managed
• 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 balance dogmatism and pragmatism to guide decision-making. Articulate trade-offs and drive high-impact technology decisions on topics including (but not limited to) IaaS/PaaS providers, container orchestration, service mesh, API gateways, and commercial vs. open-source software.
• Approaches to managing Architectural debt, Architecture governance, and evolution in the 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.)
• Deep understanding of different integration patterns and best practices such as events, synchronous vs. asynchronous
• University degree with above-average academic performance in a mathematical scientific field, information technology, or business administration
• BCG Managing Directors and Partners (MDPs)
• PLA Managing Directors (mds)
• BCG Consultants at all levels
• PLA Consultants at all levels
• Clients, vendors, partners