Job Descrption
WHAT YOU'LL DO
BCG is looking for a Senior Director level Enterprise Architect to pioneer the modernisation of our networks, operations and the security products used by BCGers and clients across the globe, 24x7, 365 days of the year.
The heart of this role is to define the architecture of the infrastructure that underpins the delivery of amazing digital experiences to our employees and clients. You will be an expert in cloud infrastructure, networks, security, identity, and operations and how to design, scale and run secure infrastructure solutions for a global company. You will have an excellent understanding of how to these technologies can optimise delivery of applications on a range of devices using offline and online access patterns. You will have a very good understanding of applications on cloud based using containers, APIs, integration and DevSecOps and how secure infrastructure can meet demanding availability and performance criteria.
YOU'RE GOOD AT
Energising our people... to set a vision and see the possibilities for efficiency, effectiveness of using modern infrastructure technologies i.e. cloud first infrastructure, cloud first security.
Finding great answers to complex and ambiguous questions, and, connecting and collaborating across teams to develop their architectures, especially to meet demand non-functional requirements. You will seek diverse views, and with a growth mindset considering both conventional and unconventional answers.
Rolling up your sleeves and "doing", pioneering the way forward and bring others along with you. You produce high-quality Enterprise Architecture arguments and supporting materials. You are adept at agreeing these at different levels in the organisation. You must be a brilliant storyteller and amazing at PowerPoint.
Influencing and collaborating with others, especially solution architects and technical leaders across the organisation. You will be passionate at developing others through mentoring, coaching, and sharing knowledge.
Applying modern methodologies such as Kanban, Scrum, Lean, Design/Product thinking and UI/UX to your work and encouraging others to adopt and use these methods.
You will be enthused by technology. Knowledgeable and conversant with modern computing paradigms and always curious and driven to learn more and applying this to your work. You will demonstrate expertise in modern digital thinking including domain driven design, APIs, microservices, cloud, cloud security and identity services on cloud.
Optimising your own role and delivering results. You understand that architecture is part of a value stream where we need to play our part in being efficient to help increase velocity and reduce risk across the architecture team and the teams we work with.
YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)
10+ years' experience leading and owning the enterprise architecture of a significant infrastructure estate. This includes managing the value, opportunities, inventory, roadmaps, rationalisation, and total cost for the infrastructure portfolio
Your experience will include multiple successful examples of autonomously:
Planning a global infrastructure estate in various dimensions of requirements, technology, cost, value, rationalisation, etc.
Leading and agreeing investment decisions at a portfolio and individual technology level
Leading the development of infrastructure architectures across on prem, cloud, security, networks and IT operations. You must have deep experience in at least one of AWS, Azure or GCP.
Leading decisions through to a conclusion in a highly matrixed organisation with minimal or no supervision.
Preparing materials for, and presenting at, senior levels including C-Suite
YOU'LL WORK WITH
You will be reporting to the BCG IT Executive Director for Enterprise Architecture and work in the central Enterprise Architecture team. You will have a dotted line to the BCG IT CTO. This is an individual contributor role with a strong dotted line relationship to all the architects working in infrastructure, networks and operations
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