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On-site in Madrid·Full-time·Added 6 days ago (last checked 22 Oct)

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On-site, Madrid
Contract
Full-time
Spanish
Fluent
English
Required
Experience
12+ years
Education
University degree

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Requirements

What we're looking for

What You'll Bring

  • At least 12 years of experience in IT Strategy and consulting, professional software development or IT project management
  • You will have relevant experience from a top consulting firm (focused on technology, digital initiatives) and have led the design and management of IT implementation and strategy projects
  • 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
  • Strong technical expertise in at least two of the following areas:
    • IT Modernisation; Solution & Enterprise Architecture
    • Physical & Digital Channels (Including Mobile)
    • Banking & Insurance Platforms
    • Applied Intelligence, Machine Learning, RPA, Chatbots, Blockchain, IOT
    • DevOps & Bimodal IT
  • Experience with the management of decision process at C-Level
  • Able to present different architecture models to clients, develop MVP architecture and IT landscape modernisation roadmaps
  • Deep expertise with modern tool-sets in Agile environments, legacy modernization and modern approaches to technology
  • Know-how to drive operational and client service excellence, presenting project results to C-Level
  • Experience of writing white papers on your areas of expertise
  • Proven practice development: Hiring mentoring and developing both individuals & teams
  • Managing requirements and configuration of large-scale system implementations
  • Leading and running workshops at peer level and facilitating client meetings
  • Delivering IT due diligence, assessments, recommendations and future-state designs
  • Strong business acumen; can frame complex problems in appropriate business contexts
  • Have the power of presence to network and build internal and external trusted relationships and new business development
  • Ability to work under pressure and willingness to travel to clients world-wide
  • Highly professional and rigorous, results-oriented, driven and hard-working
  • Spanish is mandatory
  • Have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
  • A University degree with above average academic performance in a STEM related field or business management

Nice to have

  • Preferred industry background: Banking, Insurance, Oil, Gas

The role

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.

BCG Platinion launched in Germany in 2000 to add deep technical expertise to the Boston Consulting Group's existing capabilities. Today, our presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. Our New York-based North American team began in 2014 and in 2017 acquired MAYA Design, a Pittsburgh-based digital design and innovation lab, to grow our capabilities around technology and design.

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 Principal, you will work closely with our client's leadership teams to understand their key challenges, define IT strategies, win buy-in for your recommendations and lead fellow BCG case team members to transform client potential into performance.

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 evaluate and coach our clients' technology teams, manage quality and risk while maintaining client expectations and escalations.Besides the functional guidance of the project team you will also be operationally responsible for the execution and management of the solution. Together with our clients you will develop convincing IT strategies, concepts and solutions, applying your sound technical know-how along with your analytical and conceptual skills.

You will manage diverse teams of consulting talent. Your role will be to help those teams flourish through thought leadership, team mentoring, knowledge sharing, giving frequent feedback and creating opportunities for team members to learn and grow.

You will also personally develop and grow by being exposed to new and complex challenges daily. Clients will also seek your advice as a thought leader on business issues that extend beyond the immediate scope of you project work.

Finally as a Principal you will contribute to the Practice Area development and help to build the BCG brand as a digital leader.

Hiring process

3 steps3 interviewsa task to do
  1. Application

  2. Skills Interview

    A traditional interview exploring experience, skills, and motivation for joining BCG.

  3. Case Interview

    For client-facing roles, problem-solving and analytical skills are assessed in a case interview.

  4. Team Interview

    For client-facing roles, problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills are assessed.

  • The case and team interviews apply to client-facing roles.

About Boston Consulting Group

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a global management consulting firm that partners with leaders in business and society to deliver transformative impact, helping organizations bridge the gap between ambition and outcomes through strategic clarity, applied AI, and transformative impact at scale.

The firm draws on industry expertise across sectors such as aerospace and defense, automotive, consumer products, education, energy, financial institutions, health care, and industrial goods, and operates specialized units including Inverto, an international supply chain and procurement consultancy, and BrightHouse, a global creative consultancy.

Industry
Management Consulting
Website
bcg.com

In their own words

About the company & team

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-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.

Who You'll Work With

  • BCG Managing Directors and Partners (MDP's)
  • PLA Managing Directors (MD's)
  • BCG Consultants at all levels
  • PLA Consultants at all levels
  • Clients, vendors, partners

Additional information

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, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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