Application Lead Architect, Platinion

Who We Are

Boston 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. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures-and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

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 challenge. 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, revolutionize 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.

Practice Area

BCG Platinion launched in Germany in 2000 to add deep technical expertise to the Boston Consulting Group's existing capabilities. Today, our presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. Our New York-based North American team began in 2014 and in 2017 acquired MAYA Design, a Pittsburgh-based digital design and innovation lab, to grow our capabilities around technology and design.

We support our clients' total digital transformation through technology, design, cybersecurity, and risk management & financial engineering capabilities. And together with BCG, BCG Platinion's interdisciplinary team of technical experts enable customized technical solutions and accelerate delivery value through new business platforms, application consolidations, and major system implementations.

What You'll Do

At BCG Platinion, you will accelerate your development through hands-on impact, continuous learning, and mentorship. You will:

• Develop deep expertise and technical excellence by solving complex challenges for global organizations, shaping critical technology strategies, and driving digital transformations that create measurable business value.
• Engage directly with CxO stakeholders, influencing high-impact decisions and translating technical insights into strategic outcomes at the highest levels of client organizations.
• Strengthen your leadership and consulting skills through collaboration with senior BCG leaders, cross-functional experts, and diverse international teams.
• Broaden your perspective by joining a global community of architects, engineers, and designers who exchange ideas, challenge norms, and co-develop innovative solutions.
• Shape your career path within an organization that values curiosity, impact, and the ability to turn vision into scalable change.

As a Technical Solution Architect, you will lead the design and delivery of large-scale, mission-critical business applications for our clients. You will act as a trusted advisor, defining robust architectures that balance functional requirements, technical constraints, and long-term sustainability. Working at the intersection of technology strategy and implementation, you will guide teams toward high-impact solutions that drive measurable business value.

What you will do :

• Design and oversee the architecture of complex enterprise and business-critical applications, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Lead end-to-end solution design - from requirements analysis and technology selection to implementation and deployment - in close collaboration with client stakeholders.
• Define architectural roadmaps and contribute to enterprise-level transformation initiatives, ensuring consistency across systems and integration layers.
• Supervise and mentor development and architecture teams, fostering technical excellence and promoting best practices in design, code quality, and DevSecOps.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and tools to identify opportunities for innovation and modernization of client environments.
• Collaborate with business and IT leaders to align architecture decisions with strategic goals, budget, and operational constraints.
• Represent architecture governance in project steering committees and ensure compliance with enterprise standards and security requirements.

What You'll Bring

• 7+ years of experience in software architecture and solution design and integration, including significant involvement in large-scale or business-critical applications (ERP, CRM, core business systems, data platforms, etc.).
• Proven ability to design and deliver complex, distributed systems involving multiple technologies, integrations, and stakeholders.
• Deep technical expertise in modern architecture paradigms - cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), microservices, APIs, containers, CI/CD, and security-by-design principles.
• Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, system interoperability, and performance optimization for high-volume applications.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills. Able to articulate architectural choices to technical and non-technical audiences, and to influence at all levels of the organization.
• Experience in consulting or client-facing roles, comfortable managing ambiguity, priorities, and technical challenges in dynamic environments.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, AWS/Azure Solutions Architect, or similar) are a strong plus.
• Passion for technology and continuous improvement, with a pragmatic mindset focused on delivering business value through architectural excellence.

Who You'll Work With

• BCG Managing Directors and Partners (MDP's)
• PLA Managing Directors (MD's)
• BCG Consultants at all levels
• PLA Consultants at all levels
• Clients, vendors, partners

Additional info

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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.

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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.
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