BCG Platinion | Lead IT Architect, Public Sector Industry Leader; Defense & Security, Civil

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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. Founded in 1963, BCG pioneered business strategy and today helps 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, deliver solutions through leading‑edge management consulting, technology, 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.

BCG Platinion’s presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. We achieve digital excellence for clients with sustained solutions to the most complex and time‑sensitive challenges, guiding clients into the future to push the status quo, overcome tech limitations, and enable them to go further in their digital journeys than ever possible. 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.

At BCG Platinion, we bring design to the front line of business challenges, creating work that solves problems in novel, feasible, and desirable ways. Our team applies a discovery‑driven approach to create innovative, end‑to‑end experiences at the intersection of people and technology. As a Lead IT Architect, you will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to develop leading IT concepts and architectural solutions, applying your technical know‑how, business context understanding, and analytical skills to enable organizations to transform technically.

This role is primarily a leader in the US Public Sector as part of BCG Platinion’s Architecture practice, but also open to commercial and private sector engagements.

• Technical experts: critical thinkers with extensive IT expertise that drive novel solutions in complexity.
• Comfortable with ambiguity: they know the path forward isn’t always well defined and work confidently through the unknown.
• Change agents: they know how to make change happen across an organization, aligning and onboarding teams to implement new processes and toolsets.
• Agile advocates: well‑versed in agile methodologies and use their expertise to strategically tackle difficult challenges and implement change.
• Collaborative: interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and establish relationships from cross‑functional stakeholder groups to existing teams.
• Innovative: creative thinkers who apply deep IT architecture expertise to envision novel design patterns for next‑generation technology solutions.
• Knowledgeable: sophisticated understanding of IT Architecture, serving as a viable resource on teams as a hands‑on practitioner and subject‑matter expert.

• IT Architecture and Solution Design
  • Designing solution, application, and data architecture.
  • Developing feasibility studies, technical concepts, executing proofs of concept, and scaling software solutions.
  • Performing technology assessments and implementing IT architectures.
  • Analyzing complex IT application landscapes and status quo for IT architecture optimization.
  • Reviewing technical architecture and code.
• IT Optimization and Transformation
  • Supporting IT functions during mergers and acquisitions, including functional and technical transformation.
  • Restructuring IT processes and organization.
  • Optimizing…