What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platinion Core Technology IT Consultant position at Boston Consulting Group?
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.
BCG Platinion launched in Germany in 2000 to add deep technical expertise to the Boston Consulting Group's existing capabilities. Today, our presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. 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.
IT Consultants at BCG Platinion are:
- Collaborative. They are interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and establish relationships ranging from cross-functional stakeholder groups to existing teams.
- Comfortable with ambiguity. They know the path forward isn't always well-defined. They are comfortable and confident working through the unknown.
- Technical experts. They are critical thinkers and have extensive IT expertise that drives novel solutions routed in complexity.
- Generalists. They have a solid technical foundation and wide range of experience to guide any client on any challenge, agnostic of industry.
- Change agents. They know how to make change happen across an organization. They can align and onboard teams to implement new processes and toolsets. They embrace complex challenges and guide an organization to optimize IT best practices.
You're Good At:
- Orchestrating technical project delivery across business stakeholders, complex vendor landscapes and technology ecosystems
- Diagnosing current state technology and assisting in developing future state IT architecture through technical requirements and evaluation (e.g., vendor landscape, vendor assessments/selections automation, tech cost benefits analysis, eCommerce, platform valuation and design)
- Delivering data and digital platforms using at least one technique such as Agile, DevSecOps, and Cloud native architectures
- Developing technology strategies and roadmaps that enable the client's defined business outcomes
- Implementing governance frameworks to guide decision making and address change in a complex environment
- Evaluating the differences between software and cloud services providers based on business use cases
You Bring:
- BA/BS in information technology, business administration, computer science, business management, or system controls or a related field
- 2 years of professional experience in the execution and management of technology
- Experience in IT organization (prior experience at a consulting organization highly preferred) and process development
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- The ability to perform in high pressure situations
- The ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment-proposing innovative ideas, building empathy within the firm, and winning the trust of the clients
- A highly professional and driven mindset, with the ability to think strategically and end-to-end
- Entrepreneurial know-how, proactiveness, and productiveness
- A distinct client and results-oriented mindset
- Good interpersonal skills, but also judgment independency and autonomy
- The highest ethical standards
- Purposeful travel based on client and business needs. Expect 30-50% travel
What We Offer:
At BCG, we care about our people, and offer best in class benefits to support you personally and professionally throughout your different life experiences including:
- An opportunity to work organically across disciplines and across BCG, we offer a unified and unrivaled opportunity that combines strategic thinking with hands-on applications.
- A unique experience to work alongside a team of passionate and driven problem-solvers with a mission to deliver innovative and valuable digital solutions in a supportive environment.
The first year base compensation for this role is $110,000 in USD.
In addition to your base salary, you will also be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus and BCG's Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution. BCG also provides a market leading benefits package described below.
At BCG, we are committed to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes everything our employees and their families need to be well and live life to the fullest. We pay the full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees - and their eligible family members.* That's zero dollars in premiums taken from employee paychecks. All our plans provide best in class coverage:
- Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children
- Low $5 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs
- Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 (USD) in orthodontia benefits
- Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually
- Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities
- Fully vested retirement contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not
- Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, and annual office closure between Christmas and New Years
- Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement
*Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.
To learn more about our employee benefit please check our page.
The 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, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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