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Who We Are

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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.

What You'll Do

To realize our digital transformation, we need to transform our products, experiences, processes, technology and how we operate. Delivering our clients unrivalled experience of exceptional service, value and flexibility is part of our DNA.

 

As solution architect, you will define and design, and validate implementation of technology solutions that optimize our solutions for rapid innovation while also making sure we manage risks such as cyber security and operational resilience. You will act as pioneer, thought leader, problem solver, and be sought out for your expertise by product teams, enabling them to go faster, safely, and prevent solutions that are hard to change and stifle innovation.

 

Digital Collaboration is one of our organization’s most wide ranging and strategic portfolios. To this effect, you will be challenged to bridge enterprise architecture and engineering, facilitating the design of multiple services, products and solutions within the Digital Collaboration portfolio across our messaging, collaboration, and productivity platforms. You will provide key architecture vision and roadmap direction for our Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace platforms, as well as a wealth of other products in this space, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and compliance frameworks.

 

You will craft AI-led designs, optimizing against many requirements such as functional needs, quality attributes (e.g., security, usability), cost, and enterprise-wide goals (e.g., cloud and API enablement). You will document architecture views, deliver architecture artifacts required by the delivery process, validate that solutions built are done according to the architectural design. You will propose architectural epics and stories to implement the architectural runway and clear technical debt, document quality attributes in epics & stories, and define acceptance criteria. Finally, you will drive teams to maximize the automation in their deployment pipeline for effective scaling and resiliency.

 

Researching/analyzing emerging technologies, as well as designing and advocating new technologies, architectures, and products in collaboration with system and service owners is part of your profile. Same is true for identifying risks within proposed system/solution architectures and developing mitigation plans, ensuring that our solutions are scalable and sustainable for operations.

 

YOU’RE GOOD AT

 

To be successful, you should bring sound development and architecture experience leveraging technologies to drive technical governance, innovation, integration and cloud-oriented strategies. Ideally, you thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem solving, analytical and decision making skills, and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for collaboration and open communication.

 

Verbal and written communication at a business and technical levelServicing customers with a strong business orientation and connecting with skilled engineersHigh level of initiative, self-motivation, resourcefulness and collaborationWorking well independently as well as part of a teamBuilding relationships and reliable team player, displaying consideration and respect for othersPerforming successfully in a fast-paced, multi-cultural and service-oriented environmentInterpreting rules and guidelines flexibly to enhance the business and aligning with BCG’s values and cultureExhibiting ownership and accountability for the tasks assignedAttention to detail, well organized, and able to set priorities and take decisionsBeing flexible to be available outside of normal business hours for international calls as needed

What You'll Bring

Education and Certifications

Bachelors or greater degree10+ years of experience in IT architecture with 5+ years in workplace or M365-focused domainsDemonstrated experience in Agile architecture delivery and cross-functional team collaborationCertifications preferred:Microsoft Certified: M365 Enterprise Administrator ExpertTOGAF, Azure Solutions Architect or similarSecurity and compliance certifications are a plusFamiliarity with GDPR, DLP, and data privacy standards

Functional/Technical Skills

Architecture Assessment, Modeling, Consulting & ReviewSolution Design and Implementation across collaboration and productivity platformsArchitecture Strategy Development and DeliveryTarget Conceptual and Logical Architecture designIT Risk Management and Governance PrinciplesWorkplace services expertise, including:Email & Messaging: Exchange Online, Outlook, SuperhumanChat: Microsoft Teams, SlackCollaboration & Productivity: SharePoint, OneDrive, Planner, Microsoft Project, Trello, Miro, Google WorkspaceVirtual Meetings: Microsoft Teams, ZoomTools & frameworks: Architecture documentation, RAID logs, M365 and Google Workspace governance and compliance controlsStrong experience with Greenfield major system builds and Agile delivery methodologiesFamiliarity with Digital Design Principles and modern architecture frameworksFamiliarity with Generative AI technology (i.e. ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude4Work, Gemini, etc.) and its potential application in collaboration scenarios

Core Professional / Communication Skills

Business & Consultative Skills to align architecture strategy with business goalsCritical Thinking and Problem Solving in complex digital workplace ecosystemsSystems Thinking to connect architecture decisions across domains and platformsPrioritization and Managing Expectations in a multi-stakeholder, agile environmentStakeholder Management to influence and guide technical and non-technical partnersInterpersonal & Leadership Skills to lead technical discussions and coach architects

Who You'll Work With

This role will work closely with the engineers, product owners, and other solution/domain architects within the Digital Collaboration Portfolio. Additionally, you will partner with our other digital portfolios on major system designs and integrations. You can expect to spend significant time working together with our security and user experience teams on designs to ensure our user obsession comes through in the quality of our designs while simultaneously securing by design. Finally, as part of the architecture guild, you’ll work together with other architects around the world, including solution architects, domain architects, and enterprise architecture.

Additional info

YOUR TRAVEL: Mostly from the BCG office, occasionally work at other BCG offices.

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