Platinion Associate Director or Principal, Enterprise Solutions

Who We Are

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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 12 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.