Who We AreBoston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. As a Global IT Platform Management Director, you will lead the end-to-end platform management, cohesive cross-platform planning, driving delivery excellence, robust governance, and alignment with enterprise-wide objectives across the platform engineering ecosystem. Platform Management & Strategic DeliveryLead strategic planning and execution of technology platform roadmaps across portfolios.Support the definition and execution of platform strategy and transformation initiatives.Drive cohesive platform delivery through integrated planning, cross-portfolio prioritization, and coordinated execution across multiple platform engineering portfolios and teams.Partner with delivery owners and transformation leads to track progress against OKRs and priorities.Risk, Dependency, and Compliance OversightProactively surface misalignment, execution risks, and key decision pointsManage frameworks for identifying, tracking, and mitigating platform-level risks and interdependencies.Partner with architecture and security teams to embed compliance, policy adherence, and risk mitigation into delivery workflows.Metrics, Reporting, and Stakeholder EngagementDevelop and maintain executive dashboards and reports to track platform performance, delivery metrics, and overall health.Champion Culture, Agility, and Continuous ImprovementEmbed programmatic excellence, business agility, and delivery discipline within the platform engineering organization.Promote a culture of high accountability, clear ownership, and performance metrics.Demonstrated ability to manage interdependencies, platform roadmaps, and risk controls across diverse workstreams.Bringing systems thinking, risk management, and clear planning.Master’s degree or MBA a strong plus.12+ years of experience in IT, Digital, or Platform Delivery roles, with deep exposure to enterprise program management, governance, or strategy.Strong understanding of agile principles and ways of working including scrum & Kanban.Strong understanding of technology enabled business, digital and organizational transformations, delivering enterprise IT and Digital services.Familiarity with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint or similar.Who You'll Work WithPlatform Engineering Teams, Product Portfolios, Architecture, Security, Finance, TMO, and Digital Delivery leads across BCG.Platform Management Lead, Portfolio Leads, Platform Team Leads for integration and alignment.Agile coaches and Delivery Owners to embed scalable delivery practices.Additional infoYOUR TRAVELMostly from the BCG office, occasionally work at other BCG offices.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
Global IT Manager in London employer: The Boston Consulting Group
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