Boston Consulting Group Looking for Platinion Enterprise Solutions Principal IT Consultant at Atlanta, Georgia Full Time

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Practice Area Profile

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

Principal IT Consultants, Enterprise Solutions at BCG Platinion are: 

• Collaborative. They are interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and establish relationships ranging from cross-functional stakeholder groups to existing teams. 
• Agile advocates. They are well-versed in Agile methodologies and use their expertise to strategically tackle difficult challenges and implement change. 
• Comfortable with ambiguity. They know the path forward isn’t always well-defined. They are comfortable and confident working through the unknown. 
• Technical experts. They are critical thinkers and have extensive IT expertise that drives novel solutions routed in complexity. 
• Change agents. They know how to make change happen across an organization. They can align and onboard teams to implement new processes and toolsets. They embrace complex challenges and guide an organization to optimize IT best practices. 
• Influencers. They build strong relationships to build trust and influence stakeholders. 

 You’re Good At: 

• Managing large-scale ERP projects 
• Restructuring business and IT processes and organization within an ERP construct 
• Supporting IT functions during mergers and acquisitions, including the functional and technical transformation of an organization’s IT department 
• Evaluating an organization’s  IT and ERP architecture 
• Developing road maps and current state assessments 
• Designing and implementing feasibility studies for ERP strategy 
• Defining global and local deployment strategy 
• Developing infrastructure approach and high-level design of ERP solutions (cloud, on-prem, hybrid) 
• Considering data and integration related to ERP platforms 
• Optimizing depth of value added in ERP 
• Restructuring core ERP processes (functional and/or technical) 
• Managing IT projects and quality assurance 
• Analyzing and evaluating ERP architectures 
• Recommending ERP software and ERP platforms, requirements, and configuration 
• Developing IT/ERP target architectures in an enterprise environment, component technologies, and service-oriented architectures (SOA) 
• Using procedural models for professional software development 
• Managing projects and expectations and maintaining control of situations when they escalate 
• Developing team’s talent by providing direction and facilitating technical architectural discussions 
• Assisting with business development through writing proposals, scoping projects 
• Contributing to our thought leadership through written publications and speaking at events and conferences

What You’ll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

You Bring: 

• Bachelors or Master degree in mathematics, natural sciences, information technology, business management, or relevant field 
• 6+ years of practical experience in IT/ERP consulting, professional software development, or IT project management with a focus on one or more of the following: 
• SAP 
• Salesforce 
• Oracle (Financials, NetSuite, Fusion, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, etc.) 
• Workday 
• Experience in business process design and configuration 
• Previous experience in a management role in two or more end-to-end ERP implementations in a waterfall or agile setting 
• Excellent communication and presentation skills 
• Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills 
• Experience with the management of decision processes at large organizations 
• Strong customer and results orientation 
• Confidence and persuasiveness 
• Experience planning and managing medium to large-sized projects 
• Purposeful travel based on client and business needs. Expect 30-50% travel  

What We Offer: 

At BCG, we care about our people, and offer best in class benefits to support you personally and professionally throughout your different life experiences including: 

• An opportunity to work organically across disciplines and across BCG, we offer a unified and unrivaled opportunity that combines strategic thinking with hands-on applications.  
• A unique experience to work alongside a team of passionate and driven problem-solvers with a mission to deliver innovative and valuable digital solutions in a supportive environment.  

BCG pioneered strategy consulting more than 50 years ago, and we continue to innovate and redefine the industry. We offer multiple career paths for the world’s best talent to have a real impact on business and society. As part of our team, you will benefit from the breadth and diversity of what we are doing today and where we are headed next. We count on your authenticity, exceptional work, and strong integrity. In return we are committed to supporting you in discovering the most fulfilling career journey possible—and unlocking your potential to advance the world.
VACCINE: 

Candidates should be aware that BCG currently maintains a policy requiring all US & Canada based employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Newly hired employees must be fully vaccinated prior to their employment start date. BCG is an equal opportunity employer and will provide a reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated for medical or religious reasons where it is not an undue hardship to the company to do so as provided under applicable federal, state, provincial and local law.
FOR U.S. APPLICANTS:
Boston Consulting Company (“BCG”) is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

The first year base compensation for this role is $200,000 in USD.

In addition to your base salary, you will also be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus and BCG’s Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution. BCG also provides a market leading benefits package described below.

At BCG, we are committed to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes everything our employees and their families need to be well and live life to the fullest. We pay the full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees – and their eligible family members.* That’s zero dollars in premiums taken from employee paychecks. All our plans provide best in class coverage:

• Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children
• Low $5 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs
• Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 (USD) in orthodontia benefits
• Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually
• Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities
• Fully vested retirement contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not
• Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, and annual office closure between Christmas and New Years
• Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement

*Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.

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