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What You'll DoAs 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 leadership.
What You'll Bring10+ years' experience in software development, technical project management, digital delivery or technology consultingAbility to bring unique tech perspectives from outside the consulting industry into BCG's typical engagements, requiring:Consulting experience [Required]Strategic mindset (hypothesis driven, 80:20 mindset, iterative approach, activist stance)Self-managedLeadership potential to transform the consulting industry in particular around interaction with designers, engineers and POsProgressing thought leadership in deep techNew (but proven) methodologies or ways of workingOverview 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 practiceMicro 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. asynchronousUniversity degree with above-average academic performance in a mathematical-scientific field, information technology, or business administration.
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