Global IT Director - Enterprise Data Architect (London)

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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. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital venturesand business purpose. BCG is looking for a Director level Enterprise Data Architect responsible for the architecture, design, and delivery of cohesive technical solutions across BCG business, primarily focusing on implementation of new platform, data capabilities, solution enhancements, and system/data integration. The Enterprise Architect likely will oversee multiple workstreams, such that they can drive consistency and synergy across solutions for the enterprise. Key objectives of the role are to drive digital transformation and the strategic and tactical use of technology to deliver data/platform/AI capabilities, with cutting edge technologies in a high paced environment. Critical to the Enterprise Data Architects success is their ability to collaborate with project teams to deliver results balanced with adherence to standards and processes. The Enterprise Data Architect will also facilitate cross-enterprise coordination, ensuring that we accommodate requirements across the enterprise and address system integration needs for solutions. As a part of BCG Digital Bionic strategy, they will collaborate with multi-disciplinary architects and engineers across the business teams and technology organization to develop strategy, technology roadmaps, and technical standards. They will also work as an interface point with strategic partners, determining where they may offer value to business partners and facilitating coordination on joint initiatives. Collaborate with other Enterprise Data Architects and Solution Architects and engineers to architect and review technical solutions that are aligned with enterprise technology standards and strategy, while also working to help develop and grow those standards and roadmaps.
Works across multiple systems/solutions to ensure their consistency and alignment, as well as to determine how multiple systems/solutions can work together to ensure that solution architecture is adaptable across various lines of business.
Leverage experience and expertise across a wide variety of technology domains, including infrastructure, data management, systems integration, and application development, using modern platform technologies e.g. cloud infrastructure, APIs, LLMs, vector and graph databases.
You will be high energy, able to match the fast-changing tech landscape and business priorities. You will exhibit high levels of autonomy, experiences and capable in sharing modern data architecture methods, governance, and technologies.
Energising our people to set a vision and see the possibilities for efficiency, effectiveness of using modern platform technologies e.g. cloud infrastructure, APIs, vector and graph databases.
Provide technical oversight to multiple project teams to ensure compliance with processes and standards. Ensure that solutions/systems developed in support of the business are aligned with BCG Enterprise Architecture, technical standards, and technology roadmaps.
You will be passionate at developing others through mentoring, coaching, and sharing knowledge.
Exercise concepts and best practices for designing system reliability/resilience, performance/scalability and maintainability/operability.Review and consider prospective changes to the baseline solution that have been raised by process owners, projects, production support, continuous improvement initiatives and the business for architectural impact.
~ Ideally a blend of experience in development, solution and enterprise architecture with multiple years' experience of developing and operating highly performant data pipelines.
~ Deep knowledge of working with structured and unstructured data
~ Multiple successful experiences of leading the development of large volume data solution architectures.

You will be reporting to the BCG IT Senior Executive Director for Enterprise Architecture and work in the central Enterprise Architecture team. You will be working very closely with our data teams. 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.
Location:
London
Job Type:
FullTime