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　　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

　　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

　　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

　　What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

　　Extensive technical expertise and knowledge of:

　　Broad exposure on ERP Modernization modules - SAP/Oracle

　　Various technology stacks

　　Mainframe architecture (nice to have, but not must)

　　Cloud native applications and cloud services architecture

　　Omnichannel architecture

　　Integration methodologies and tools

　　API and Microservices architecture

　　Structured and unstructured databases and usage patterns

　　High-speed, high-volume, high-frequency transaction processing systems

　　Real-time logging, monitoring and resiliency approaches

　　Disaster recovery and business continuity planning

　　SAP S/4HANAExperience in agile engineering and tooling support

　　Experience in agile engineering and tooling support

　　An agile mindset that moves past blockers and a vision to iteratively migrate to the next/modern set of architecture capabilities with a lens of business benefits/value

　　More than 10 years of 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

　　Leadership potential to transform the consulting industry around interaction with designers, engineers and product owners:

　　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 practice

　　Micro services topologies, including operational concerns such as resiliency, observability, discovery and routing, security etc.