It Consultant - Platinion

Who We AreThe 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.To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures-and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.*About BCG Platinion*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.*Practice Area*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.What You'll DoAt BCG Platinion we're keen to engage with experienced, passionate and creative technology consultants & IT professionals who will help us unlock our client's digital potential and ignite change.Meaningful and impactful work is at the core of everything we do. We build unique solutions to the complexities our clients face, while providing our people with opportunities to explore and grow. A community of leading experts, BCG Platinion team members have a natural springboard for professional growth and deeper opportunities to excel.As an IT Consultant, you will work in an international environment, closely with our client's leadership teams to understand their key challenges, define IT strategies, win buy-in for your recommendations and collaborate with BCG case team members to transform client potential into performance with high-impact assignments.You will deploy customized IT strategies, digital platforms and architecture in order to leverage the digital potential of our customers with state of the art tools such as cloud computing, AI, blockchain, microservices and containerization. You will be responsible for specific parts of the project and will evaluate and coach our clients' technology teams, manage quality and risk while maintaining client expectations and escalations. You'll develop ground-breaking projects by enabling our clients to effectively use agile methods and modern approaches in the context of strategic IT implementation.You will work on a variety of technology topics, applying your technical consulting skills to strategic technology questions. You will also be supported by an extensive training curriculum, plus technology-specific training and mentoring to help build upon you technical skills. You will also help with project proposals, client care, building relationships with peers and identifying new business opportunities.Finally as an IT Consultant you will contribute to the Practice Area development and help to build the BCG brand as a key member of the case team.What You'll Bring3 to 6 years of experience in IT Strategy and consulting, professional software development or IT project managementPrior IT consulting experience is a highly desiarableStrong technical expertise working with Data and Cloud technologies along with experience in at least two of the following areas:IT Modernisation; Solution & Enterprise ArchitectureBanking & Insurance PlatformsPeople, HR, Collaboration PlatformsMarketing, Sales & Service Platforms (CRM)Physical & Digital Channels (Including Mobile)ERP (SAP) &Manufacturing PlatformsApplied Intelligence, Machine Learning, RPA, Chatbots, Blockchain, IOTDevOps & Bimodal ITA strategic thinker, entrepreneurial, able to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environmentOutstanding analytical and conceptual skills, strong customer focus and mental agility with a results orientationExperience in legacy environments and modern approaches to technologyTrack record of Agile consulting and advisory with experience in Digital and Agile transformations at scaleExperience in IT organisation and process developmentExperience in the organisation of workshops at peer level and facilitating in client meetingsStrong business acumen; can frame complex problems in appropriate business contextsAbility to work under pressure and willingness to travel to clients world-wideA University degree with above average academic performance in a STEM related field or business managementBoston 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. (Click here )( for more information on E-Verify.