Global IT Senior Director

Who We Are

BCG pioneered strategy consulting more than 50 years ago, and we continue to innovate and redefine the industry. We offer multiple career paths for the world's best talent to have a real impact on business and society. As part of our team, you will benefit from the breadth and diversity of what we are doing today and where we are headed next. We count on your authenticity, exceptional work, and strong integrity. In return we are committed to supporting you in discovering the most fulfilling career journey possible-and unlocking your potential to advance the world. Our team called Global Services (GS) provides corporate support to business areas such as Finance, Legal, HR, Marketing and IT. This diverse team of experts, operators and specialists represent all levels from Partner to entry level staff, operating across the globe in multiple countries. Global Services is in short, the backbone of BCG.

What You'll Do

Among your responsibilities, you will:Own and influence architecture decisions across the Portfolio, ensuring it is in alignment with BCG standards, and design principles.Create reference architecture focused on design principles, detailed APIs, and major systems dependencies between business and ITDefine the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture visionClearly align the Data and Analytics roadmap into the overall architecture visionAnalyze the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt and recommend solutions for improvementAuthor the strategic architecture for the Portfolio to state the architecture needed to meet the business requirementsStay up to date with emerging technology trends within the industry to innovate and champion new technologies/frameworks/tools where appropriateAccountable for leading the solution architects within the Portfolio in terms of coaching and mentoring

What You'll Bring

Education and Certifications•    Bachelor's degree in information science, data management, computer science or related field.•    15+ years of relevant experience in IT architecture with strong technical background, preferably in large international professional services organizations•    Top notch communication skills and a strong ability to understand and communicate effectively with various cultures•    Experience with scalable architectures, API management, serverless technologies, and SaaS low code platform-tools/technologies (Especially Workday and top recruiting and learning SaaS products)•    Demonstrated experience around transforming data into a usable decision asset for the enterprise•    Demonstrated experience communicating complex system architecture technologies, patterns, artifacts, and roadmaps to senior business leadership•    Good understanding of technology-enabled business transformation, Digital transformation, •    Organizational transformation, delivering enterprise-level Digital projects•    Knowledge of Agile Methodologies and ways of working (Scrum, XP, DevOps…), understanding and applying a “servant leader” mindset, and with the ability to engage in Agile ceremonies to provide teams necessary direction and guidance•    IT Architect certification: Open Group certification (e.g., TOGAF Certified, Certified Architect Master) Functional/Technical Skills•    Strong experience as an IT architect in complex and heterogeneous environment•    Solid experience of designing end-to-end architecture and design of one or more enterprise level solutions (preferably in HR domain)•    Expertise in integrating Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions in highly complex environment•    Domain experience in HR solutions, ideally with experience in leading a HR Transformations•    Strong background on Data and Analytics integration for the overall business transformation•    High level of expertise in understanding data architecture and supporting technologies•    Experience in collaborating with agile development teams in reviewing application architecture, design and implementation against quality standards•    Expertise towards SOA & Microservices architecture implementation using REST APIs, queue based messaging patterns, relational and NoSQL databases•    Expertise towards knowledge of on-premise/cloud-based infrastructures, SDLC pipelines, and deployments/configurations and definition/evangelism of best practices/standards•    Proven advanced experience with systems integration, IT industry standards, architecture principles design, and service level agreement definition•    Strong focus on promoting component re-use in architecture designs•    Experienced in software delivery including CI/CD and related DevSecOps practices, working with cloud-based platforms such as Azure or AWS•    Strong software design & development principles, with a focus on system stability, reusability, observability and performance optimized for a global audience•    Strong understanding of application testing, diagnostics and performance tuning•    Strong understanding of TDD and BDD methodologies•    And workable knowledge ofData ingestion pipelinesFront-end JavaScript frameworks like Angular & ReactAWS (Azure is a plus)•    And familiar withScrum and Kanban development methodologiesAutomation, performance and load testing tools

Who You'll Work With

The Domain Architect is a position within the HR Digital Portfolio focused on driving architecture and innovation for HR Solutions at BCG. The portfolio manages and delivers internal software solutions and IT product offerings to worldwide BCG and has a significant transformation roadmap ahead of us. The role will work closely with Product Team Level Solution Architects, Technical Area Lead, Chapter Leads, Product Team Leads, Product Owners other solution and enterprise architects within and outside of the portfolio

Additional info

POSITION DESCRIPTIONTo realize our digital transformation, we need to transform our products, experiences, processes, technology and how we operate. Delivering our clients unrivalled experience of exceptional service, value and flexibility is part of our DNA. We are looking for people who are passionate about Digital Products Transformation, Innovation and Agile ways of working and want to spread this approach within our teams and business processes. To execute this transformation, we need people who take the lead in defining standards and guardrails of working and developing expertise further within the teams. We are seeking a senior leader to bring our Digital Products vision to reality in partnership with BCG's HR teams. As a senior technology leader, you will act as a pioneer, thought leader, problem solver, and be sought out for your expertise by product teams, enabling them to go faster, safely, and prevent solutions that are hard to change and stifle innovation. You will be responsible for the technology architecture and vision of digital HR solutions that enable our teams to create the best experience for our employees and HR Teams. You will bring industry best practices to design and implement secure, performant and scalable solutions. You will closely collaborate with solution architects embedded in the HR Products team and the Enterprise Architecture function to bring the best to our teams. You will also participate in mentoring and coaching junior architects around latest industry trends and the BCG internal benchmarks around solution architecture and engineering. You will work closely with broader technology teams to align to an enterprise vision for integrated solutions within and beyond HR systems at BCG.As a Domain Architect, you will define and design technology solutions that optimize our solutions for rapid innovation whilst also making sure we manage risks such as cyber security and operational resilience. In your role you will act as the bridge between enterprise architecture and engineering and will own the design of end-to-end solutions within the HR product portfolio. You will optimize against many requirements such as functional needs, quality attributes (e.g. security, usability), cost, and enterprise-wide goals (e.g., cloud and API enablement). You will document/review architecture views and deliver architecture artefacts required by the delivery process and enable teams to maximize the automation in the deployment pipeline. You will also be accountable to understand the Gen AI advancement across the function and bring together a cohesive vision to drive Gen AI based solutions within the HR Digital Portfolio.Moreover, you will be a hands-on participant in architecture proof of concepts, innovation initiatives, and performance tuning activities. Researching/analyzing emerging technologies, as well as designing and advocating new technologies, architectures, and products in collaboration with system and service owners is part of your profile. Same is true for identifying risks within proposed solution architectures and developing mitigation plans, ensuring that solution architectures are scalable and sustainable for operations. You propose architectural epics and stories to implement the architectural runway and clear technical debt, document quality attributes in epics & stories, and define acceptance criteria.Ultimately you will be responsible for the portfolio architecture roadmap, aligned to the business cap

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