Principal (IT/Digital) | BCG Platinion

Locations: Doha | Saudi Arabia

Who We Are

The 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

As a Principal IT/Digital in the Energy Practice, you will work closely with our client's leadership teams to understand their key challenges, define IT strategies, win buy-in for your recommendations and lead fellow BCG case team members to transform client potential into performance with high-impact assignments. You will deploy customized IT strategies, digital platforms and architecture in order toleverage the digital potential of our customers in order to deliver long lasting value. You will evaluate and coach our clients' technology teams, manage quality and risk while maintaining client expectations and escalations. Besides the functional guidance of the project team you will also be operationally responsible for the execution and management of the solution. Together with our clients you will develop convincing IT strategies, concepts and solutions that have a lasting impact on the organization, operating model, digital, and/or data landscape.

You will manage diverse teams of consulting talent. Your role will be to help those teams flourish by provoking thought, team mentoring, knowledge sharing, giving frequent feedback and creating opportunities for team members to learn and grow. You will also personally develop and grow by being exposed to new and complex challenges daily.
Clients will also seek your advice as a thought leader on business issues that extend beyond the immediate scope of you project work. Finally as a Principal you will contribute to the Practice Area development and help to strengthen the BCG Platinion brand as aAI and digital leader.

YOU’RE GOOD AT

• Driving results in complex environments
• Solving business and technology problems
• Building strong client relationships
• Leading and developing teams
• Communicating complex topics clearly
• Collaborating across teams

What You'll Bring

• 8–12+ years in IT consulting or digital transformation
• Experience in Energy sector (e.g., Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals)
• Track record in IT transformation delivery
• Expertise in IT/ Digital architecture, cloud, data & AI topics
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management
• Excellent academic degree
• Excellent English communication skills, Arabic is a plus.

Who You'll Work With

You will work in a collaborative environment with continuous development opportunities, growing toward Director-level roles while deepening expertise in Energy and IT/ digital transformation.

Additional info

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

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