Lead IT Architect

Locations: London | Amsterdam | Brussels

About BCG Platinion

BCG Platinion's presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. We achieve digital excellence for clients with sustained solutions to the most complex and time-sensitive challenges. We guide clients into the future to push the status quo, overcome tech limitations, and enable our clients to go further in their digital journeys than what has ever been possible in the past. At BCG Platinion, we deliver business value through the innovative use of technology at a rapid pace. We roll up our sleeves to transform business, revolutionise 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.

What You'll Do

At BCG Platinion we're keen to engage with experienced, passionate and creative IT Architects who will help us unlock our client's digital potential and ignite change. In particular, we are looking for architects that have domain knowledge on the Insurance sector to work with our insurance clients. We will also consider applications from other domains providing that are willing to learn and develop their skills within the Insurance sector. Meaningful work is at the core of everything we do. We build unique solutions to the complexities our clients face, while providing our people with opportunities to explore and grow. A community of leading experts, BCG Platinion team members have a natural springboard for professional growth and deeper opportunities to excel.

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 specialised knowledge to help you solve clients' problems. You will start to take on team lead responsibilities and demonstrate intellectual leadership. Together with our clients, you will develop superior digital and technology concepts and architecture solutions as well as support technical implementations actively and on site, applying your sound technical know-how, your understanding of business contexts, and your analytical and conceptual skills. You will also help guide junior members of the team, help with project proposals, client care, building relationships with peers and identifying new business opportunities. Finally, as a Lead IT Architect, you will contribute to the Practice Area development and help to build the BCG brand as a key member of the case team.

What You'll Bring

• 10 to 15 years' experience in software development, technical project management, digital delivery or technology consulting.
• Prior IT consulting experience is a must with management experience.
• Experience of working in the insurance technology market with knowledge on core insurance processes and packages such as Guidewire, Duck Creek or DXC Graphtalk AIA, Sapiens, Keylane or SAP Insurance.
• Experience of working on core systems modernisation (such as Policy administration, claims systems or underwriting/pricing) and regulatory reporting (Solvency II or IFRS 17).
• Technical expertise working with Data and Cloud technologies.
• 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.
• Ability to work under pressure and willingness to travel to clients world-wide.

For candidates based in London: Fluent in English.

For candidates based in the Netherlands: Fluent in English; Dutch is highly desirable.

For candidates based in Belgium: Fluent in English, with French or Flemish as an additional requirement.

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