BCG Platinion | Senior IT Architect - Technology

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BCG's Tech and Digital Advantage (TDA) practice focuses on helping clients deliver competitive advantage and business superior performance through data, technology and digital. BCG Platinion sits within the TDA practice and is at the heart of the strategic impact we have with our clients. Our consultants and experts globally work across all industries and provide deep experience and expertise in a wide variety of topics including Digital Transformation, Data & Digital Platforms, AI at Scale, Cybersecurity and Digitizing the Tech Function.

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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.

Senior IT Architects 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.
• Technical experts. They are critical thinkers and have extensive IT expertise that drives novel solutions routed in complexity.
• Comfortable with ambiguity. They know the path forward isn’t always well‑defined. They are comfortable and confident working through the unknown.
• 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.
• Agile advocates. They are well‑versed in agile methodologies and use their expertise to strategically tackle difficult challenges and implement change.
• Innovative. They are creative thinkers who apply their deep IT architecture expertise to envision novel design patterns for the next generation of technology solutions.
• Knowledgeable. They have a sophisticated understanding of IT Architecture, acting as a viable resource on teams as both a hands‑on practitioner and subject matter expert.
• Strategic partners. They work closely with senior client stakeholders, including C‑level executives, to build hypothesis‑driven solutions at the intersection of technology and business. They bridge the gap between IT and business functions, ensuring technology strategies are aligned with organizational goals to solve critical business challenges.

• Payments Technology
  • Designing end‑to‑end payments architectures across card, account‑to‑account, real‑time payments, wallets, and alternative payment methods.
  • Architecting scalable, secure, and resilient payment platforms covering authorization, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, and reporting.
  • Integrating with payment gateways, processors, acquirers, issuers, and payment networks using modern API‑ and event‑driven patterns.
  • Defining payment integration and messaging standards (e.g., REST APIs, ISO 8583, ISO 20022) aligned with enterprise and cloud architectures.
  • Embedding security, fraud, and regulatory…