Senior IT Consultant - Amsterdam | BCG Platinion

As a Senior IT Consultant at BCG Platinion, you will play a crucial role in helping clients unlock their digital potential through tailored IT strategies and solutions. With 6 to 10 years of experience in IT strategy, consulting, professional software development, or IT project management, you will leverage your strong technical expertise in data and cloud technologies. The role involves collaborating with client leadership, managing project quality, and coaching technology teams. A university degree in a STEM-related field or business management is required, and prior IT consulting experience is highly desirable.

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities.

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.

Practice Area

We support our clients’ total digital transformation through technology, design, cybersecurity, risk management, and financial engineering capabilities. Together with BCG, BCG Platinion’s interdisciplinary team of technical experts enables customized technical solutions and accelerates delivery value through new business platforms, application consolidations, and major system implementations.

What You'll Do

At BCG Platinion, we're keen to engage with experienced, passionate, and creative technology consultants and IT professionals who will help us unlock our clients' digital potential and ignite change.

Meaningful and impactful work is at the core of everything we do. We build unique solutions to the complexities our clients face, while providing our people with opportunities to explore and grow. A community of leading experts, BCG Platinion team members have a natural springboard for professional growth and deeper opportunities to excel.

As a Senior IT Consultant, you will work in an international environment, closely with client leadership teams to understand their key challenges, define IT strategies, win buy-in for your recommendations, and collaborate with BCG case team members to transform client potential into performance through high-impact assignments.

You will deploy customized IT strategies, digital platforms, and architecture to leverage the digital potential of our customers using state-of-the-art tools such as cloud computing, AI, blockchain, microservices, and containerization. You will be responsible for specific parts of the project and will evaluate and coach clients' technology teams, manage quality and risk, and maintain client expectations and escalations. You’ll develop ground-breaking projects by enabling clients to effectively use agile methods and modern approaches in the context of strategic IT implementation.

You will work on a variety of technology topics, applying your technical consulting skills to strategic technology questions. You will also be supported by an extensive training curriculum, technology-specific training, and mentoring to help build upon your technical skills. You will also help with project proposals, client care, building relationships with peers, and identifying new business opportunities.

Finally, as a Senior IT Consultant, you will contribute to the Practice Area development and help build the BCG brand as a key member of the case team.

What You'll Bring

• 6 to 10 years of experience in IT strategy and consulting, professional software development, or IT project management
• Prior IT consulting experience is highly desirable
• Strong technical expertise working with data and cloud technologies along with experience in at least two of the following areas:
• IT modernisation; solution and enterprise architecture
• Banking and insurance platforms
• People, HR, collaboration platforms
• Marketing, sales and service platforms (CRM)
• Physical and digital channels (including mobile)
• ERP (SAP) and manufacturing platforms
• Applied intelligence, machine learning, RPA, chatbots, blockchain, IoT
• DevOps and bimodal IT
• A strategic thinker, entrepreneurial, able to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills, strong customer focus, and mental agility with a results orientation
• Experience in legacy environments and modern approaches to technology
• Track record of agile consulting and advisory with experience in digital and agile transformations at scale
• Experience in IT organisation and process development
• Experience in the organisation of workshops at peer level and facilitating client meetings
• Strong business acumen; can frame complex problems in appropriate business contexts
• Ability to work under pressure and willingness to travel to clients worldwide
• A university degree with above average academic performance in a STEM-related field or business management

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