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Locations : Boston | Canary Wharf | Atlanta
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.
What You'll Do
WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS
BCG is looking for a director level Lead Solution Architect to help us accelerate into the next generation of 24 × 7, worldwide services that power every employee and client interaction. Your leadership will advance our journey to cloud-first infrastructure and security, ensuring fast, reliable, and secure digital experiences everywhere.
Set the strategy. Define and champion a clear, modern infrastructure vision—cloud-first, secure-by-design, highly available.
Lead Solution architects. Inspire, coach, and coordinate a team of specialist architects to deliver against that vision.
Build & run. Design, scale, and operate global platforms across identity, networking, compute, containers, and DevSecOps.
Optimize delivery. Shape architectures that boost application performance on any device—online or offline.
Drive decisions. Own roadmaps, investment cases, and KPIs for a sizable infrastructure estate.
Tell the story. Craft concise, compelling materials for stakeholders up to C-suite, turning complex ideas into clear action.
How You Will Succeed
Visionary leadership – Energize teams to see possibilities in modern tech and act quickly.
Analytical clarity – Tackle ambiguous problems and balance functional and non-functional needs.
Hands-on execution – Produce high-quality artefacts and lead by example.
Influence & collaboration – Guide architects and engineers across a matrixed organization.
Modern mindset – Apply Kanban, Scrum, Lean, and product thinking to increase velocity and reduce risk.
Continuous learning – Stay curious about DDD, APIs, micro-services, cloud security, and identity.
YOU’RE GOOD AT
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills in English is required; command of additional languages will be considered a plus
You can successfully interface and connect with skilled technologists and non-technical stakeholders, including members of the C-suite
Ability to work in an Agile environment leveraging strong work management, organizational and planning skills
You have an ability to work as part of a geographically dispersed team bringing a sense of urgency to the tasks at hand
Must have well-honed and credible influencing skills including the ability to negotiate and gain consensus between involved parties where competing priorities exist
You’re able to effectively handle difficult and stressful situations with poise, tact and patience, while demonstrating a sense of urgency
What You'll Bring
8+ years owning end-to-end solution architecture and/or security engineering experience with large-scale infrastructure portfolios.
Proven success planning and rationalizing global estates, optimizing value, cost, and risk.
Extensive experience in a globally distributed environment spanning multiple platforms such as AWS, Azure and GCP
Experience of cloud security techniques in a DevSecOps and agile working environment
Experience in understanding and capturing requirements, continuously improve and develop technical policies and processes
Experience leading and mentoring fellow team members, across internal and vendor teams
Record of steering investment decisions and securing executive buy-in.
Confident communicator with polished C-suite presentations.
NICE TO HAVE
Proven leadership in Zero Trust architecture for hybrid and multi-cloud environments
Strong background in secure, software-defined networking and micro-segmentation
Hands-on with modern engineering practices—Agile, DevSecOps, automated testing
Familiarity with secrets management / certificate lifecycle automation
Solid grasp of cryptographic key management and enterprise PKI operations
Experience with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)
Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines with integrated security gates
Practical use of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi) for secure, repeatable builds
Familiarity with configuration-orchestration tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet) to enforce baseline hardening
Relevant certifications—CISSP, CCSP, CCSK, SABSA, ITIL, or equivalent
Who You'll Work With
You will be part of a diverse and dynamic team of protection specialists located across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, working in a highly collaborative environment with like-minded colleagues.
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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Seniority level Seniority level Director
Employment type Employment type Full-time
Job function Job function Engineering and Information Technology
Industries Business Consulting and Services
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