Portfolio Lead Solution Architect Director

Overview

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Locations: Boston | London | Munich

What You'll Do

To realize our digital transformation, we need to transform our products, experiences, processes, technology and how we operate. We are looking for people who are passionate about Agile ways of working and want to spread this approach within our teams and business processes. To execute this transformation, we need people who take the lead in defining standards and guardrails of working and developing expertise within the portfolio. As portfolio architect you will define and design technology solutions that optimize our solutions for rapid innovation whilst also making sure we manage risks such as cyber security and operational resilience. You will act as pioneer, thought leader, problem solver, and be sought out for your expertise by product and engineering teams. In your role you will bridge enterprise architecture and engineering and will own the design products and solutions within the Risk portfolio. Using proven BCG’s DDP architecture framework to identify, own and advance the digital transformation in the portfolio. You will optimize against many requirements such as functional needs, quality attributes (e.g., security, usability), cost, sustainability, and enterprise-wide goals (e.g., cloud and API enablement, ai). You document architecture views and deliver architecture artefacts required by the delivery process and enable teams to maximize automation in the CI/CD pipeline. Moreover, you will be a hands-on participant in architecture proof of concepts, innovation initiatives, and performance tuning activities. Researching/analyzing emerging technologies, as well as designing and advocating new technologies, architectures, and products in collaboration with system and service owners is part of your profile. Same is true for identifying risks within proposed solution architectures and developing mitigation plans, ensuring that solution architectures are scalable and sustainable for operations. You propose architectural epics and stories to implement the architectural runway and clear technical debt, document quality attributes in epics & stories, and define acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Own and influence architecture decisions across the Portfolio, ensuring it is in alignment with BCG standards, and design principles.
• Own the annual DDP refresh (Data & Digital Platforms) architecture for the portfolio that covers tech maturity, road mapping, integrations, security, and data strategies.
• Create reference architecture focused on design principles, detailed APIs, and major systems dependencies between business and IT
• Define the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision
• Analyze the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt and recommend solutions for improvement
• Author the strategic architecture for the Portfolio to state the architecture needed to meet the business requirements
• Stay up to date with emerging technology trends within the industry to innovate and champion modern technologies/frameworks/tools where appropriate
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams; act as a hands-on architect in architecture proof of concepts, innovation initiatives, and performance tuning activities.

What You'll Bring

Education and Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in information science, data management, computer science or related field.
• 15+ years of relevant experience in IT architecture with strong technical background, preferably in large international organizations
• Experience with scalable architectures, API management, serverless technologies, and SaaS low code platform-tools/technologies
• Demonstrated experience communicating complex system architecture technologies, patterns, artifacts, and roadmaps to senior business leadership
• Good understanding of technology-enabled business transformation, Digital transformation, Organizational transformation, delivering enterprise-level Digital projects
• Knowledge of Agile Methodologies and ways of working (Scrum, XP, DevOps…), understanding and applying a “servant leader” mindset, and with the ability to engage in Agile ceremonies to provide teams necessary direction and guidance
• Nice to have - IT Architect certification: Open Group certification (e.g., TOGAF Certified, Certified Architect Master)

Functional/Technical Skills

• Strong experience as an IT architect in complex and heterogeneous environment
• Solid experience of designing end-to-end architecture and design of applications using one or more platforms
• Expertise in integrating Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions in complex environment
• Domain experience in Risk solutions, ideally with experience in leading a Risk Transformation project
• High level of expertise in understanding data architecture and supporting technologies
• Experience in collaborating with agile development teams in reviewing application architecture, design and implementation against quality standards
• Solid experience in modern design patterns
• Expertise towards SOA & Microservices architecture implementation using REST APIs, queue-based messaging patterns, relational and NoSQL databases
• Working knowledge of Machine learning model integration and MLOps pipelines.
• Working knowledge of orchestration for AI services.
• Working knowledge of on-premises/cloud-based infrastructures, SDLC pipelines, and deployments/configurations and definition/evangelism of best practices/standards
• Proven advanced experience with systems integration, IT industry standards, architecture principles design, and service level agreement definition
• Strong focus on promoting component re-use in architecture designs
• Experienced in software delivery including CI/CD and related DevSecOps practices, working with cloud-based platforms such as Azure or AWS
• Strong software design & development principles, with a focus on system stability, reusability and performance optimized for a global audience
• Strong understanding of application testing, diagnostics, and performance tuning
• Strong understanding of TDD and BDD methodologies.
• Data ingestion pipelines
• Front-end JavaScript frameworks like Angular & React and Vue
• AWS
• Azure
• Scrum and Kanban development methodologies
• automation, performance, and load testing tools

Who You'll Work With

The Portfolio Lead Solution Architect is a position within the Risk Portfolio focused on driving architecture and innovation within Risk, which itself is part of BCG's digital products organization. The Portfolio manages and delivers internal software solutions and IT product offerings to worldwide BCG. The role will work closely with other squad/area level Solution Architects, Chapter Leads, Product Owners, Technical Area Lead, Portfolio Lead and other solution and enterprise architects within and out

Additional info

Compensation and Benefits

• The base salary range for this role is $178,000.00 - $213,333.33
• All Of Our Plans Provide Best In Class Coverage
• Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children
• Low $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs
• Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 in orthodontia benefits
• Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually
• Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities
• Fully vested Profit Sharing Retirement Fund contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not, plus the option for employees to make personal contributions to a 401(k) plan
• Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays per year, an annual office closure between Christmas and New Years, and 15 vacation days per year (earned at 1.25 days per month)
• Paid sick time on an as needed basis

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.

BCG is an E-Verify Employer.

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries
• Business Consulting and Services

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