AI Tech Architect - Johannesburg | BCG 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 we're keen to engage with experienced, passionate and creative technology consultants & IT professionals who will help us unlock our client's digital potential and ignite change.

Meaningful and impactful work is at the core of everything we do. We build unique solutions to the complexities our clients face, while providing our people with opportunities to explore and grow. A community of leading experts, BCG Platinion team members have a natural springboard for professional growth and deeper opportunities to excel.

As an IT Architect you will work together with a diverse and collaborative team evaluating and mentoring our clients' technology teams, defining technologies/digital strategies and architecture solutions. You will also contribute to enterprise-wide architecture master planning, helping organizations structure their technology foundations for the next decade. 

You will regularly act as a strategic advisor to CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level leaders, supporting them in making high-impact decisions on technology investments, transformation roadmaps, and digital resilience.

You will be exposed to complex and very exciting problems at an enterprise or country scale: large scale tech transformation, cloud strategies, de-risking technology programs, tech modernization/leap frogging, tech due diligence... .You will also be able to upskill in record time your analytical and conceptual skills on various industries (public sector, industrial goods, banking, telecommunication, medias and more!)

What You'll Bring

• 2 to 4 years of experience in technology consulting, project leadership, software engineering, or IT architecture roles.
• Strong expertise in one or more of the following areas: data architecture, solution architecture, cloud-native architecture, or systems integration.
• Hands-on experience with modern cloud platforms and ecosystems; relevant certifications such as Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Salesforce are considered a strong advantage.
• Professional fluency in English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Engineering degree or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field

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