Platform Engineer Manager

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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.

We are seeking a motivated and experienced Technical Application Engineer to lead the engineering, administration, and optimization of personal productivity applications across BCG. This role plays a critical part in ensuring that BCG’s suite of productivity tools—including Microsoft 365, Adobe Acrobat and Creative Cloud, and other integrated third‑party applications—are implemented and operated at peak performance. As a key member of the Productivity Tools team within BCG’s Personal Productivity Organization, you will collaborate with product owners, vendors, and architects and engineering teams to ensure seamless user experiences, effective governance, and ongoing operational excellence.

• Engineering & Administration
• Manage and configure enterprise application services across both legacy and cloud platforms.
• Lead upgrades, rollouts, patching, and migrations for a variety of applications.
• Conduct health checks, monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Integrate applications with third‑party platforms or in‑house solutions.
• Support complex deployments and ensure high availability of services.
• Governance, Documentation & Support
• Define and maintain SOPs, administrative practices, and end‑user documentation.
• Develop governance frameworks around licensing, lifecycle, and architecture.
• Provide Tier 3 escalation support and resolve complex technical issues.
• Mentor service desk teams and promote best practices in application usage and management.
• Collaboration & Cross‑Team Engagement
• Coordinate with network, security, and support teams for seamless application service delivery.
• Participate in planning, migrations, upgrades, and project execution.
• Liaise directly with Microsoft, Adobe and other vendors for advanced configuration and support scenarios.

• Deliver robust engineering and operational support for Microsoft 365 apps, add‑ins, Adobe Acrobat, MS Forms, and other productivity tools.
• Drive standardization and operational consistency across the firm’s application portfolio.
• Provide leadership and guidance within the M365 Application Governance Council.
• Contribute to the strategy and implementation of productivity‑enhancing tools firmwide.

• 5+ years of experience managing enterprise‑grade applications, with 3–5 years specifically in Microsoft 365 administration and technical product analysis.
• Proven experience in Adobe Creative Cloud deployment and productivity enablement.
• Strong background in enterprise M365 configuration and governance, including automation tools like Power Automate and scripting with Power Shell and Microsoft Graph API.
• Advanced capabilities using Graph
  
  API, Power Shell, SQL, and Power BI for: scripting and bulk administration, automating service management, data analysis and backend reporting, visualizing application performance metrics.
• Background in implementing GenAI capabilities across Microsoft 365 (e.g., PowerPoint, Word, Excel) is a significant plus.
• Familiarity with Azure AD, Conditional Access, Defender for Office 365, Intune, and related services.
• Expertise in managing applications in a cross platform environment such as Windows, Mac (OSX), and iOS platforms.
• Experience across application development life…