IT Architect-Management Consulting

The Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. 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. Our New York-based North American team began in 2014 and in 2017 acquired MAYA Design, a Pittsburgh-based digital design and innovation lab, to grow our capabilities around technology and design.
 
We support our clients’ total digital transformation through technology, design, cybersecurity, and risk management & financial engineering capabilities. And together with BCG, BCG Platinion’s interdisciplinary team of technical experts enable customized technical solutions and accelerate delivery value through new business platforms, application consolidations, and major system implementations.
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. Our style is entrepreneurial - nimble and innovative, with multifaceted, cross-functional teams and completely vendor-independent. As a Senior IT Architect, you will work alongside a bold, energetic and collaborative team. You will evaluate and coach our clients' technology teams, define technology strategies, architecture solutions and help us design the future. Together with our clients, you will develop superior digital and technology concepts and architecture solutions as well as support technical implementations actively and on site, applying your sound technical know-how, your understanding of business contexts, and your analytical and conceptual skills. 
 
As you acquire experience, you will be responsible for owning the delivery for a specific project “module” and help develop technical concepts for that “module”. You will be supported by an extensive training curriculum, plus technology-specific training and mentoring to help you build your technical skills.

Finally, as a Senior IT Architect you will contribute to the Financial Services Practice Area development and help to build the BCG brand as a key member of the case team. 
4 to 10 years of IT Architecture experience in IT/technology consulting, financial institutions, financial services, or banking industry.
~ Hands-on experience with core banking platforms such as Temenos T24, Finacle, Mambu, FIS Profile, Avaloq, and others.
~ Deep understanding of end-to-end banking processes, including customer onboarding, payments, loans, deposits, customer data management, and regulatory reporting requirements.
~ Proven experience in designing and implementing microservices architectures.
~ Strong understanding of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and APIs (REST, SOAP).
~ Experience in cloud platforms for hosting core banking applications, including data concepts such as management, security, governance, databases, and integration.
~ Experience modernizing legacy banking systems.
~ A university degree with above-average academic performance in a computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field.
~ For candidates based in The Netherlands: Fluent in English; Dutch is highly desirable.
~ Fluent in English, with French or Flemish as an additional requirement.