Global IT Director – Enterprise Data Architect Position Available In DeKalb, Georgia

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Atlanta – BostonWho We AreBoston Consulting Grouppartners with leaders in business and society to tackle their mostimportant challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCGwas the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963.Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complexchange, enabling organizations to grow, building competitiveadvantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizationsmust blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, globalteams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range ofperspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions throughleading-edge management consulting along with technology anddesign, corporate and digital ventures-and business purpose. Wework in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm andthroughout all levels of the client organization, generatingresults that allow our clients to thrive.

What You’ll DoBCG islooking for a Director level Enterprise Data Architect responsiblefor the architecture, design, and delivery of cohesive technicalsolutions across BCG business, primarily focusing on implementationof new platform, data capabilities, solution enhancements, andsystem/data integration. The Enterprise Architect likely willoversee multiple workstreams, such that they can drive consistencyand synergy across solutions for the enterprise. They will alsomaintain awareness of emerging technologies relevant to their areasof expertise and responsibility.

The successful candidate will be ahighly motivated strategic thinker, engaging collaborator, andeffective influencer. Key objectives of the role are to drivedigital transformation and the strategic and tactical use oftechnology to deliver data/platform/AI capabilities, with cuttingedge technologies in a high paced environment.

Critical to theEnterprise Data Architect’s success is their ability to collaboratewith project teams to deliver results balanced with adherence tostandards and processes. They will coordinate and provide oversightto the solution architects and engineering leads of multipleworkstreams.

The Enterprise Data Architect will also facilitatecross-enterprise coordination, ensuring that we accommodaterequirements across the enterprise and address system integrationneeds for solutions. As a part of BCG Digital Bionic strategy, theywill collaborate with multi-disciplinary architects and engineersacross the business teams and technology organization to developstrategy, technology roadmaps, and technical standards. They willalso work as an interface point with strategic partners,determining where they may offer value to business partners andfacilitating coordination on joint initiatives.

YOU’RE GOOD AT

Collaborating with other Enterprise Data Architects andSolution Architects and engineers to architect and review technicalsolutions that are aligned with enterprise technology standards andstrategy, while also working to help develop and grow thosestandards and roadmaps. Working across multiple systems/solutions to ensure theirconsistency and alignment, as well as to determine how multiplesystems/solutions can work together to ensure that solutionarchitecture is adaptable across various lines of business. Leveraging experience and expertise across a wide variety oftechnology domains, including infrastructure, data management,systems integration, and application development, using modernplatform technologies e.g. cloud infrastructure, APIs, LLMs, vectorand graph databases. Exhibiting high levels of autonomy, and capable in sharingmodern data architecture methods, governance, and technologies. Energizing our people to set a vision and see the possibilitiesfor efficiency and effectiveness of using modern platformtechnologies e.g. cloud infrastructure, APIs, vector and graphdatabases. Finding great answers to complex and ambiguous questions andconnecting and collaborating across teams to develop their solutionarchitectures. You will seek diverse views, and with a growthmindset consider both conventional and unconventional answers. Providing technical oversight to multiple project teams toensure compliance with processes and standards. Ensuring thatsolutions/systems developed in support of the business are alignedwith BCG Enterprise Architecture, technical standards, andtechnology roadmaps. Organizing Architecture and Design Reviews to ensure widerarchitecture peer group input is sought for robust design. You willbe passionate about developing others through mentoring, coaching,and sharing knowledge. Exercising concepts and best practices for designing systemreliability/resilience, performance/scalability andmaintainability/operability. Ensuring designs are implemented withtarget architecture and key design decisions are clearlycommunicated to leadership and all key stakeholders. Reviewing and considering prospective changes to the baselinesolution that have been raised by process owners, projects,production support, continuous improvement initiatives and thebusiness for architectural impact. Participating in the Technical design authority where proposalsand solutions are reviewed and where there is the likelihood ofpotential change to the solution. Discussing emerging technologiesand applications with vendors to assess options.

What You’ll Bring 10+ years’ experience leading architecture work. Ideally ablend of experience in development, solution and enterprisearchitecture with multiple years’ experience of developing andoperating highly performant data pipelines.

Your experience will include:

Deep knowledge of working with structured and unstructureddata. Multiple successful experiences of leading the development oflarge volume data solution architectures. Evaluating solution options to achieving benefits in variousdimensions of meeting functional & nonfunctional requirements,improving functionality/services, cost reduction/rationalizationand efficiencies through ongoing automation. Highly effective at influencing in a highly matrixedorganization. Expert knowledge of consulting; you are likely to have been aconsultant in your past.

Who You’ll Work WithYou will be reportingto the BCG IT Senior Executive Director for Enterprise Architectureand work in the central Enterprise Architecture team. You will beworking very closely with our data teams. This is an individualcontributor role and will be expected to develop strong andinfluential relationships to all the solution architects working inall domains including our GenAI development teams.

Boston ConsultingGroup is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicantswill 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 historieswill be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state andlocal laws.

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