IT Solution Architect Expert Director: Digital Collaboration Position Available In Cobb, Georgia

IT Solution Architect Expert Director:

Digital Collaboration
This job is available in 2 locations See all Category Technology and Engineering Id 53845 JOB

DESCRIPTION

Locations:

Atlanta | Munich
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-inspiringplex change, enablinganizations to grow, buildingpetitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.
To succeed,anizations 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 clientanization, 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 ouranization’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, andpliance 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 openmunication.
Verbal and writtenmunication at a business and technical level
Servicing customers with a strong business orientation and connecting with skilled engineers
High level of initiative, self-motivation, resourcefulness and collaboration
Working well independently as well as part of a team
Building relationships and reliable team player, displaying consideration and respect for others
Performing successfully in a fast-paced, multi-cultural and service-oriented environment
Interpreting rules and guidelines flexibly to enhance the business and aligning with BCG’s values and culture
Exhibiting ownership and accountability for the tasks assigned
Attention to detail, wellanized, and able to set priorities and take decisions
Being flexible to be available outside of normal business hours for international calls as needed
What You’ll Bring
Education and Certifications
Bachelors or greater degree
1+ years of experience in IT architecture with 5+ years in workplace or M365-focused domains
Demonstrated experience in Agile architecture delivery and cross-functional team collaboration
Certifications preferred:

Microsoft Certified:

M365 Enterprise Administrator Expert
TOGAF, Azure Solutions Architect or similar
Security andpliance certifications are a plus
Familiarity with GDPR, DLP, and data privacy standards
Functional/Technical Skills
Architecture Assessment, Modeling, Consulting & Review
Solution Design and Implementation across collaboration and productivity platforms
Architecture Strategy Development and Delivery
Target Conceptual and Logical Architecture design
IT Risk Management and Governance Principles
Workplace services expertise, including:

Email & Messaging:

Exchange Online, Outlook, Superhuman

Chat:

Microsoft Teams, Slack

Collaboration & Productivity:

Point, OneDrive, Planner, Microsoft Project, Trello, Miro, Google Workspace

Virtual Meetings:

Microsoft Teams, Zoom
Tools & frameworks: Architecture documentation, RAID logs, M365 and Google Workspace governance andpliance controls
Strong experience with Greenfield major system builds and Agile delivery methodologies
Familiarity with Digital Design Principles and modern architecture frameworks
Familiarity 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 goals
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving inplex digital workplace ecosystems
Systems Thinking to connect architecture decisions across domains and platforms
Prioritization and Managing Expectations in a multi-stakeholder, agile environment
Stakeholder Management to influence and guide technical and non-technical partners
Interpersonal & 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 obsessiones 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.
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, w applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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