BCG Platinion Lead/Principal IT Architect
Boston Consulting Group · Singapore +4 · 8mo ago
Locations: Singapore | Kuala Lumpur | Jakarta | Bangkok | Vietnam
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
We are looking for Lead/Principal IT Architects (Enterprise, Solution, or Cloud) to strengthen BCG Platinion’s architecture leadership and delivery capabilities in Southeast Asia. This is a senior, client-facing role for technology leaders who combine strong architectural depth with strategic perspective, and who are comfortable shaping direction while remaining hands-on when required.
You will play a critical role in defining enterprise technology strategies, leading architecture design, and driving complex digital and IT transformation programs for leading organizations.
What You’ll Do
Work cohesively in hybrid case teams consisting of BCG and BCG Platinion consultants on large-scale IT and digital transformation programs
Provide enterprise architecture, solution architecture, and IT strategy advisory to senior client stakeholders, particularly within Financial Institutions and/or Insurance sectors
Align business strategy and technology architecture to deliver tangible outcomes in partnership with client leadership
Lead current-state assessments, define target-state architectures, and develop pragmatic transition roadmaps
Define, guide, and oversee the implementation of enterprise and solution architectures, including proof-of-concepts and pilot initiatives
Design innovative, scalable technology solutions across complex client environments to address critical business challenges
Drive innovation by bringing cross-industry perspectives on emerging technology trends, platforms, and delivery models
Build trusted relationships with senior client executives, actively influencing decision-making and technology direction
Contribute to business development, including shaping proposals, supporting presales activities, and presenting to senior stakeholders
Mentor and develop junior architects and consultants, fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration
What You'll Bring
10+ years of experience in strategy, management, or technology consulting and/or relevant industry or digital roles, within Financial Services/Insurance/Telco/other industries
Proven experience across enterprise, solution, application, data, and/or cloud architecture domains
Strong track record of architecting and delivering enterprise-scale solutions in complex environments
Solid understanding of architecture principles, with hands-on exposure to modern data platforms and digital ecosystems
Experience leading high-performing delivery or case teams in complex transformation programs
Demonstrated experience in presales, proposal development, and senior client presentations
Ability to thrive in a hypothesis-driven consulting environment, framing strategic technology challenges with clarity
Strong analytical skills, structured problem-solving ability, and conceptual thinking
Excellent communication, storylining, and client-facing consulting skills
Strategic mindset with senior presence and professional gravitas when engaging executive stakeholders
Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF; relevant certifications are a plus
Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
MBA, Master’s, or PhD is highly regarded
Flexibility to travel within Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific region
More experienced candidates may be considered for appointment at the Principal or Director level.
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