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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. Our team called Global Services (GS) provides corporate support to business areas such as Finance, Legal, HR, Marketing and IT. This diverse team of experts, operators and specialists represent all levels from Partner to entry level staff, operating across the globe in multiple countries. Global Services is in short, the backbone of BCG.

What You'll Do

As a Solution Architect, you will be responsible for the design and delivery of the technical architecture supporting new and evolving business processes, with a focus on SAP S/4 Hana Public Cloud as BCG’s global ERP platform. You will partner closely with the SAP Product Team Lead, SAP Technical Team Lead, and Product Owners to define the roadmap for the SAP platform. You will partner closely with the Portfolio Lead Architect and other solution architects to define the architecture roadmap for the entire Finance and Procurement product portfolio. You will leverage industry best practices and your hands-on knowledge of SAP to best serve BCG’s business needs.

This role will focus on solution architecture activities for the core SAP solution as well as perform all other related tasks, such as:

Working with product teams and vendors to ensure effective solution design, architecture and configuration of SAP foundationsPartnering closely with Enterprise Architecture and fellow solution architects to make key design decisionsEnsuring data security and quality assurance best practices are followedCreating referenceable architecture artifacts and coaching teams in the same practiceEnsuring proper root cause analysis and remediation is executed during any issues or incidentsPartnering with data and integration architects to ensure continuity of designs across teams with clear communication of design implications for downstream environmentsWorking collaboratively with team in supporting the current application environment

 

What You'll Bring

College degree and 8 or more years of experience in the delivery of business applications in a commercial IT setting, or in consultingLanguage and global skills: High fluency English, global experience preferred7+ years of work experience in SAP and the related ecosystem, with deep subject matter expertise across multiple modules, including:Multi-ledger GL / AR / AP / SPLSAP’s Business Technology PlatformSAP’s data model and related integration impactsHands-on experience architecting business application solutions, both custom and off-the-shelf, that include:Multi-currency / country scope at large scaleComplex role and profile-based securityHigh availability architecturesDiverse eco-systems that required re-platforming of niche and legacy componentsWillingness and ability to create detailed solutions and troubleshoot issues when neededExperience in agile development environments with all aspects of SDLCGood understanding of security best practices from development and deployment perspectiveStrong technical competence, with the ability to rapidly learn new tools and technologiesFlexibility and entrepreneurial spirit to adapt easily to changing requirements and priorities

Who You'll Work With

We seek people with strong drive, relentless curiosity, desire to create their own path, ability to work collaboratively, and the passion and leadership to make an impact. You’ll collaborate on challenging projects with team members from many backgrounds and disciplines, increasing your understanding of complex business problems from diverse perspectives and developing new skills and experience to help you at every stage of your career. You’ll be able to experience business on a genuinely global scale and learn how to bring together people from different cultures to uncover insights that challenge the status quo. You will work closely with a cross functional team that is collaborative, passionate and that holds themselves to a high standard. Your stakeholders are incredibly intelligent, analytical and make business decisions with a global lens.

 

Additional info

YOU’RE GOOD AT

 

Thinking strategically and developing executable plans to achieve business outcomesApplying Agile software development methodologies and principles, including work estimation techniquesParticipating effectively in diverse, global initiatives to deliver on defined business outcomesWorking closely with key stakeholders to understand business problems and both using fit to standard approaches and surfacing other technology options to address those problemsLeveraging strong analytical abilities and creative problem solvingOperating with a transparency mindset, communicating clearly and openly both above and belowCommitting to deliver high quality work by collaborating cross-functionally to achieve the best results for the organizationWorking with multicultural, distributed teams, located in different time zonesWorking independently with limited direction

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