Portfolio Lead Solution Architect Director

Locations: Boston London Munich

Who We Are

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What You\’ll Do

To realize our digital transformation, we need to transform our products, experiences, processes, technology and how we operate. We are looking for people who are passionate about 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 within the portfolio. As portfolio 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. You will act as pioneer, thought leader, problem solver, and be sought out for your expertise by product and engineering teamsIn your role you will bridge enterprise architecture and engineering and will own the design products and solutions within the Risk portfolio. Using proven BCG\’s DDP architecture framework to identify, own and advance the digital transformation in the portfolio. You will optimize against many requirements such as functional needs, quality attributes (e.g., security, usability), cost, sustainability, and enterprise-wide goals (e.g., cloud and API enablement,ai). You document architecture views and deliver architecture artefacts required by the delivery process and enable teams to maximize automation in the CI/CD pipeline. 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.

Among your responsibilities, you will:

• Own and influence architecture decisions across the Portfolio, ensuring it is in alignment with BCG standards, and design principles.
• Own the annual DDP refresh (Data & Digital Platforms) architecture for the portfolio that covers tech maturity, road mapping, integrations, security, and data strategies.
• Create reference architecture focused on design principles, detailed APIs, and major systems dependencies between business and IT
• Define the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise\’s future-state architecture vision
• Analyze the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt and recommend solutions for improvement
• Author the strategic architecture for the Portfolio to state the architecture needed to meet the business requirements
• Stay up to date with emerging technology trends within the industry to innovate and champion modern technologies/frameworks/tools where appropriate

YOU\’RE GOOD AT

To be successful, you should bring sound development and architecture experience leveraging technologies to drive technical governance, innovation, integration and cloud-oriented strategies. Ideally, you thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem solving, analytical and decision-making skills, and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for collaboration and open communication.

• Thought leadership in technology innovation and transformation
• Partnering with the Product Portfolio Lead, Technical Area Lead and Enterprise Architects to envision and deliver on the architectural roadmap and priorities for the portfolio.
• Translating business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documenting all solution architecture design and analysis work
• Leading evaluation, analysis, and design for the implementation of a solution architecture
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with and lead cross-functional groups; and to prioritize regular workload, special tasks, and concurrent projects, allocating time and resources to ensure that work is completed accurately and efficiently within an established time frame.
• Valuing simplicity and being unafraid to challenge technical constraints and procedures to enable an agile, high-performing team.
• Comfortable partnering with Product Owners and technical leadership and providing a data-driven approach to decision making, both in the day-to-day management and in making strategic trade-offs
• Committing to cross-functional collaboration to achieve the best results for the organization
• Passionate about building enterprise-grade, scalable solutions, that add long-term value to the firm
• High level of initiative, self-motivation, resourcefulness and collaboration
• Building relationships and reliable team player, displaying consideration and respect for others
• Performing successfully in a fast-paced, multi-cultural and service-oriented environment
• Interpreting rules and guidelines flexibly to enhance the business and aligning with BCG\’s values and culture
• Exhibiting ownership and accountability for yourself and the team
• Attention to detail, well organized, and able to set priorities and take decisions
• Being flexible to be available outside of normal business hours for international calls as needed

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 organizations
• Experience with scalable architectures, API management, serverless technologies, and SaaS low code platform-tools/technologies
• 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
• Nice to have – 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 applications using one or more platforms
• Expertise in integrating Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions in complex environment
• Domain experience in Risk solutions, ideally with experience in leading a Risk Transformation project
• 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
• Solid experience in modern design patterns
• Expertise towards SOA & Microservices architecture implementation using REST APIs, queue-based messaging patterns, relational and NoSQL databases
• Working knowledge of Machine learning model integration and MLOps pipelines.
• Working knowledge of orchestration for AI services.
• Working knowledge of on-premises/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 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 of
  • Data ingestion pipelines
  • Front-end JavaScript frameworks like Angular & React and Vue
  • AWS
  • Azure

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