Locations: Santiago | Bogota

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

WHAT YOU’LL DO 

As a Senior Data IT Architect, you will work closely with clients to understand their issues, define IT strategies, data architecture solutions, win buy-in for your recommendations, and collaborate with fellow BCGers to transform client potential into performance.  

You will assess solution data architecture and landscape, define target state, and develop roadmaps. Define and drive implementation of technical architectures and proof of concepts. 

 

You will define technology strategies, data architecture solutions and help us design the future, develop, and grow by being exposed to new and complex challenges daily. Together with our clients, you will develop superior digital and technology concepts and architecture solutions as well as support technical implementations actively and on site. 

 

You will work on a variety of technology topics, applying your data architectural consulting skills to strategic technology questions.  You will be supported by an extensive training curriculum, plus technology-specific training and mentoring to help you build your skills. 

YOU’RE GOOD AT 

Building community 

Advising internal colleagues on core technical concepts and frameworks. Advising fellow architects on areas relevant to an area you have depth in. Developing a network in the BCG technical community and leveraging it for our clients. 

Developing & Designing 

Analyzing complex IT application landscapes Analyzing the status quo and optimization of IT architectures Identifying non-trivial technology decisions facing a client Storytelling about architectural building blocks and their importance Road mapping and business case development 

Controlling & Managing 

Reviewing vendor proposals and/or in-flight technical work IT project management and quality assurance Optimizing application development processes 

 

What You'll Bring

WHAT YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)  

6-9 years of experience in software development focused on Data & Analytics solutions, technical project management, digital delivery, or technology consulting. University degree with above average academic performance in information technology, computer science or computer engineering. MBA is a plus. Understanding and experience with data management, data modeling and data migration, data ingestion, processing, storage, and visualization, strong cloud experience using data technology stack and practice in data governance, data security and operation. Experience with the design and implementation of architectures for big data, internet of things, advanced analytics, business intelligence solutions and complex corporate technology solutions.  Knowledge of data integration & migration, data governance, data mining, data visualization, database modelling in an agile delivery-based environment. Data architecting experience on at least 1 main Cloud Provider in the market (AWS, Azure or GCP), knowledge in additional cloud solutions (i.e.: Snowflake, Oracle, SAP, etc.) is a plus. Designs, builds, and maintains flexible and scalable data warehouse solutions to support Business Intelligence (BI) and Reporting projects. Provides expertise in the creation and refinement of agile technical stories for data architecture and development. Ability to articulate trade-offs and drive high-impact technology decisions on topics including (but not limited to) IaaS/PaaS providers, container orchestration, service mesh, API gateways, and commercial vs. open-source software. Approaches to managing Architectural debt/gaps, Architecture governance and evolution in practice Microservices topologies, including operational concerns such as resiliency, observability, discovery and routing, security, automation, etc.   Have experience with, and understand how to lead, legacy integration and remediation (facades, strangler approaches, et. al.), chose the right approach to application modernization and optimization Deep understanding of different integration patterns and best practices such as events, synchronous vs. asynchronous, data integration, etc. Experienced in Data architecture solution for an Advanced Analytics program (Machine Leaning or Artificial Intelligence), knowledge in generative AI is a plus. Fluent in English, advanced Spanish is a plus. Capacity and experience in dealing with senior stakeholders (internal or external directors/senior executives) is a plus. 

Who You'll Work With

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

YOU’LL BE BASED IN 

Santiago or Bogota

YOU’LL BE TRAVELING 

At BCG Platinion you will have the opportunity to travel around the globe to work with clients and BCG teams.  

At times, this role involves significant travel to client sites. The amount of travel will depend on client needs  

and nature of projects. 

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.\n
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