Senior IT Architect - Platinion - Core Banking

BCG Platinion is hiring a Senior IT Architect – Core Banking to design and implement advanced IT architecture solutions for financial institutions, with a focus on core banking transformation and digital modernization.

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

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

As a seamlessly integrated part of the BCG network, we provide consulting services focused on the development and implementation of business-critical IT architecture and digital solutions. We create technology platforms and deliver exceptionally customized solutions of the future for our clients, from data strategies to next-generation customer journey solutions and transformational business models. We solve the most daunting challenges that companies face today and envision for tomorrow. Our style is entrepreneurial—nimble and innovative, with multifaceted, cross-functional teams and completely vendor-independent. Our unique selling proposition is technology expertise and delivery.

As a Senior IT Architect, you will work alongside a bold, energetic and collaborative team. You will evaluate and coach our clients' technology teams, define technology strategies, architecture solutions and help us design the future. You will 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, applying your sound technical know-how, your understanding of business contexts, and your analytical and conceptual skills.

As you acquire experience, you will be responsible for owning the delivery for a specific project “module” and help develop technical concepts for that “module”. You will be supported by an extensive training curriculum, plus technology-specific training and mentoring to help you build your technical skills.

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

What You'll Bring

• 4 to 10 years of IT Architecture experience in IT/technology consulting, financial institutions, financial services, or banking industry.
• Hands-on experience with core banking platforms such as Temenos T24, Finacle, Mambu, FIS Profile, Avaloq, and others.
• Deep understanding of end-to-end banking processes, including customer onboarding, payments, loans, deposits, customer data management, and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing microservices architectures.
• Strong understanding of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and APIs (REST, SOAP).
• Experience in cloud platforms for hosting core banking applications, including data concepts such as management, security, governance, databases, and integration.
• Experience modernizing legacy banking systems.
• Ability to work under pressure and willingness to travel to client sites.
• A university degree with above-average academic performance in a computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field.
• For candidates based in The Netherlands: Fluent in English; Dutch is highly desirable.
• For candidates based in Belgium: Fluent in English, with French or Flemish as an additional requirement.