About BCG Platinion

What we do

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. We work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact.

Our global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through:

• Leading-edge management consulting;
• Technology and design; and
• Corporate and digital ventures.

BCG Platinion is a seamlessly integrated part of the BCG network and provides 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 excellence.

Platinion was founded in 2000. Since then, we have grown continuously and successfully. Today we have offices in Europe, North and South America, Asia Pacific, and Africa.

Requirements:
To be considered for this role you will need to have:

• 5+ years’ experience in front or backend software design, architecture, or engineering
• University degree with above-average academic performance in a mathematical-scientific field, information technology, engineering, or business administration
• Passion and interest in researching new technologies and developing prototypes, POCs, and MVPs

What we offer you

We have a competitive employee value proposition which includes:

• Competitive compensation with exceptional benefits
• Twenty-five days paid annual leave
• Study leave (as required)
  
• Regular and structured training and skills development
• Overseas and local travel for training, case work, and collaboration
  
• Additional ad-hoc benefits throughout the year

Our Hiring Process

To ensure we hire the highest calibre candidates, we follow a rigorous interview process comprising 4 rounds

Round 1

• Hackathon: 2-day in-person project with cash prizes and a chance to experience the type of work you will be involved in should you receive an offer (28/29 October) or

• Technical Interview with tech talent in our BCG Platinion team

Round 2 and 3
- Case studies with members of our team

Round 4
- Culture and fit interview with the team leadership

Our culture

Our team is a diverse collection of individuals. With a group of diverse and innovative experts, BCG Platinion understands how to apply the right technology, in the right context, to fix the right problems. Our interdisciplinary team of experts including IT consultants, architects, designers, Agile coaches, cybersecurity specialists, and engineers all work in a collaborative culture to deliver resilient results through bold and practical solutions.

Why work for us

Our team is comprised of over 700 digital, data, and technology experts supporting BCG clients around the world. Working across all industries and sectors, we have delivered over 1,200 projects in the last two years alone, introducing the hallmarks of a bionic company to our clients, empowering them with superior customer experience, efficient data-driven operations, and highly innovative teams. We are involved a wide range of projects including:

Digital Products & Services: We explore and define a problem and develop ambitious pilots, MVPs and at-scale digital products and services. Those products are grounded in human-centred design, aligned to business strategy, and are delivered using an iterative, Agile approach to accelerate time to value. We enable our clients, establishing the right people, processes, and technology, to take complete ownership. Furthermore, our team of designers, engineers and product managers work with clients across the entire product lifecycle from finding market fit to building customer journeys to scaling custom software.

Architecture & Platforms: We lay the foundation for technology-driven companies through end-to-end and modular transformations. Our teams design value-driven, modern architecture platforms, and solutions, delivered against mission-critical objectives. We navigate technical considerations to integrate platforms and architecture that are fit for purpose, developing, deploying, and managing modernization at scale. From IT application landscape maturity assessments to cloud transformation journeys to next-generation ERP, our architects, engineers, and solutions experts ensure sustainable transformations based on a digitized core.

Enabling Digital Capabilities: We support digital transformation with specialized teams, equipping our clients with the skills, methodologies, and tools they need to deliver better, and faster. Our Agile teams provide hands-on coaching, empowering clients to embrace Agile principles, manage large IT programs at scale and transform their tech functions through DevOps; Our cybersecurity specialists deliver resilient strategies and technical solutions that future-proof an organization’s operations against vulnerability through interactive simulations, tools to optimize cyber spend and operating model assessments.