Global IT Enterprise Architect Expert Senior Director - Identity & Network

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BCG is looking for a Senior Director level Enterprise Architect to pioneer the modernisation of our Identity and Network architecture, securing access and connectivity for BCGers and clients across the globe, 24x7, 365 days of the year.

The heart of this role is to define the architecture of identity, access, and network connectivity that underpins secure, seamless digital experiences for our employees and clients. You will be an expert in identity and access management and zero trust network architecture. You will have considerable experience designing scaled, secure identity and network platforms for a global company.

You’ll bring teams together to leverage the scale of BCG by defining a shared, identity-first architecture direction and the guardrails to get there. Driving a modern, zero trust approach to identity and network, you’ll play a leading role in the transformation of BCG IT.

• 10+ years’ experience leading and owning the enterprise architecture of identity and network estates at global scale. This includes managing the value, opportunities, inventory, roadmaps, rationalisation, and total cost of ownership for identity and network platforms
• Your experience will include multiple successful examples of autonomously:planning a global identity and network estate across requirements, technology, cost, value and rationalisation
• leading and agreeing investment decisions at a portfolio and individual technology level
• leading the development of architectures across identity and access management (e.g. Microsoft Entra , Okta, privileged access management, identity governance and administration) and zero trust network access (e.g. SASE, SSE, ZTNA, SD-WAN). You must have deep, hands‑on experience with at least one major identity platform (Entra , Okta or Ping) and at least one SASE/SSE platform (e.g. Zscaler, Palo Alto Prisma).
• 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 will be reporting to the BCG IT Executive Director for Enterprise Architecture and work in the central Enterprise Architecture team. This is an individual contributor role with an expectation of strongly influencing architects working across the Identity and Network domains. This role owns enterprise architecture for Identity and Network.

At BCG, our people and relationships are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that in‑person collaboration plays an important role in our culture, mentorship, and professional development.

For this role, you will generally be expected to work from a BCG office or in person with clients on a regular basis (typically around 50% of working time), depending on…