Senior Global IT Director - Enterprise Architecture - Platforms

WHAT YOU'LL DO
BCG is looking for a Senior Director level Enterprise Architect to pioneer the modernisation of our platforms across Cloud, Data, Developer Experience, and Infrastructure used by BCGers and clients across the globe, 24x7, 365 days of the year.

The heart of this role is to define the architecture of our core platforms that underpin the delivery of amazing digital experiences to our employees and clients. You will be an expert in Cloud Infrastructure, Data, Developer experience, and integration. You will have considerable experience in designing, scaled and secure platforms for a global company.

You'll bring teams together to leverage the scale of BCG by defining shared technical direction and guardrails to help them get there. Driving a modern and GenAI-based engineering and technology roadmap and approach, you'll play a leading role in the transformation of BCG IT.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

Energising our people to set a vision and see the possibilities for efficiency, effectiveness of using modern platform technologies i.e. cloud first infrastructure, cloud first security, data products, networks etc.
Finding great answers to complex and ambiguous questions, and connecting and collaborating across teams to develop their architectures, especially to meet demand non-functional requirements. You will seek diverse views, and with a growth mindset considering both conventional and unconventional answers.
Rolling up your sleeves and "doing", pioneering the way forward and bring others along with you. You produce high-quality Enterprise Architecture arguments and supporting materials. You are adept at agreeing these at different levels in the organisation. You must be a brilliant storyteller and amazing at PowerPoint.
Influencing and collaborating with others, especially solution architects and technical leaders across the organisation. You will be passionate at developing others through mentoring, coaching, and sharing knowledge.
Applying modern methodologies such as Kanban, Scrum, Lean, Design/Product thinking and UI/UX to your work and encouraging others to adopt and use these methods.
You will be enthused by technology. Knowledgeable and conversant with modern computing paradigms and always curious and driven to learn more and applying this to your work. You will demonstrate expertise in modern digital thinking including domain driven design, APIs, microservices, cloud, cloud security and identity services on cloud.
Optimising your own role and delivering results. You understand that architecture is part of a value stream where we need to play our part in being efficient to help increase velocity and reduce risk across the architecture team and the teams we work with.

YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)

10+ years' experience leading and owning the enterprise architecture of a significant platform estate. This includes managing the value, opportunities, inventory, roadmaps, rationalisation, and total cost for a board platform organisation
Your experience will include multiple successful examples of autonomously:
Planning a global platform estate in various dimensions of requirements, technology, cost, value, rationalisation, etc.
Leading and agreeing investment decisions at a portfolio and individual technology level
Leading the development of infrastructure architectures across core platforms including cloud, developer experience, data, security and networks You must have deep experience in at least one of AWS, Azure or GCP.
Leading decisions through to a conclusion in a highly matrixed organisation with minimal or no supervision.
Preparing materials for, and presenting at, senior levels including C-Suite

YOU'LL WORK WITH
You will be reporting to the BCG IT Executive Director for Enterprise Architecture and work in the central Enterprise Architecture team. You will have a dotted line to the BCG IT CTO. This is an individual contributor role with a strong dotted line relationship to all the architects working in infrastructure, networks and operations.