Senior IT Consultant - Platinion - Insurance or Financial Services

Senior IT Consultant at BCG Platinion (Insurance or Financial Services)

The Senior IT Consultant at BCG Platinion is responsible for leading digital transformation initiatives for clients in the insurance or financial services sectors. The role requires 6 to 10 years of experience in IT strategy, consulting, or project management, with deep expertise in insurance processes and platforms like GuideWire, Duck Creek, or DXC. The consultant will define and implement IT strategies, deploy digital platforms, and leverage technologies such as cloud computing, AI, and blockchain. Key responsibilities include client leadership engagement, project delivery, risk management, and mentoring junior team members. A university degree in a STEM or business management field is required. Fluency in English is essential, with Dutch or French/Flemish as a plus/requirement for certain locations. The position offers opportunities for international collaboration and professional growth in a dynamic, high-impact environment.

Who We Are

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

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.

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. Our style is entrepreneurial—nimble and innovative, with multifaceted, cross-functional teams and completely vendor-independent.

As a Senior IT Consultant, you will work in an international environment, closely with our client’s 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 with high-impact assignments.

You will deploy customized IT strategies, digital platforms and architecture in order to leverage the digital potential of our customers with 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 our clients’ technology teams, manage quality and risk while maintaining client expectations and escalations. You’ll develop ground-breaking projects by enabling our 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, plus technology-specific training and mentoring to help build upon you technical skills. You will also help guide junior members of the team, help with project proposals, client care, building relationships with peers and identifying new business opportunities.

What You'll Bring

• 6 to 10 years' experience in Tech strategy and consulting or IT project management.
• Experience with the insurance industry.
• Strong knowledge on core insurance processes and on (or multiple) insurance packages like GuideWire, Duck Creek or DXC.
• 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 in client meetings.
• Strong business acumen; can frame complex problems in appropriate business contexts.
• A University degree with above average academic performance in a STEM related field or business management.
• You must also be willing to work outside of Insurance projects when required.
• For candidates based in London: Fluent in English.
• 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.