What You'll Do
As a Lead IT Architect, you will work closely with clients to understand their issues, define IT strategies, architecture solutions, win buy-in for your recommendations, and collaborate with fellow BCGers to transform client potential into performance. You will be given end-to-end responsibility for larger, highly technical and more complex "modules" within a project and begin to develop specialized knowledge to help you solve clients' problems. You will start to take on team lead responsibilities and demonstrate intellectual leadershipYOU'RE GOOD ATDeveloping & Designing
•Analysing complex IT application landscapes
•Analysing the status quo and optimization of IT architectures
•Identifying non-trivial technology decisions facing a client
•Storytelling about architectural building blocks and their importance
•Road mapping and business case developmentControlling & Managing
•Reviewing vendor proposals and/or in-flight technical work
•IT project management and quality... assurance
•Optimizing application development processesBuilding community
•Advising internal colleagues on core technical concepts and frameworks
•Advising fellow architects on areas relevant to an area you have depth in
•Developing a network in the BCG technical community and leveraging it for our clients

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

•10+ years' experience in software development, technical project management, digital delivery or technology consulting

·Ability to bring unique tech perspectives from outside the consulting industry into BCG's typical engagements, requiring:

vConsulting experience (required)

vStrategic mindset (hypothesis driven, 80:20 mindset, iterative approach, activist stance)

vSelf-managed

•Leadership potential to transform the consulting industry in particular around interaction with designers, engineers and POs

vProgressing thought leadership in deep tech

vNew (but proven) methodologies or ways of working

•Overview of common development methods and tools DevOps practices and Continuous Improvement

•Ability to balance dogmatism and pragmatism to guide decision making. Articulate trade-offs and drive high-impact technology decisions on topics including (but not limited to) IaaS/PaaS providers, container orchestration, service mesh, API gateways, and commercial vs. open source software.

•Approaches to managing Architectural debt, Architecture governance and evolution in practice

•Micro services topologies, including operational concerns such as resiliency, observability, discovery and routing, security etc.

•Have experience with, and understand how to lead, legacy integration and remediation (facades, strangler approaches, et. al.)

•Deep understanding of different integration patterns and best practices such as events, synchronous vs. asynchronous

•University degree with above-average academic performance in a mathematical-scientific field, information technology, or business administration

•BCG Managing Directors and Partners (MDP's)

•PLA Managing Directors (MD's)

•BCG Consultants at all levels

•PLA Consultants at all levels

•Clients, vendors, partners
Johannesburg South Africa

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