IT Consultant - Platinion The Boston Consulting Group

Who We Are

Platinion Profile:

Join BCG Platinion s Riyadh office in tackling the core IT issues of leading global companies. You ll deploy customized platforms, architectures, strategies, and organizations to unlock the digital potential of our clients and drive real innovation.

As a seamlessly integrated part of the BCG network, we provide 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.

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. BCG Platinion was founded in 2000 in Germany to add deep technical expertise to Boston Consulting Group s existing capabilities. Today, our presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America and most recently in the Middle East.

About us
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

• Developing groundbreaking projects by enabling your clients to effectively use agile methods and modern approaches in the context of strategic IT implementation
• Developing and deploying customised training on Agile concepts, values, cultures, behaviors and practices, whilst engaging in hands-on coaching as our clients work through day-to-day problem solving in an Agile fashion
• Shaping the digital transformation of globally leading companies while balancing overarching technical solutions and individual client circumstances
• Carving the path for tailored, future-oriented customer journeys based on precise analysis of the specific situation and with current market developments and trends such as machine learning in mind.

What You'll Bring

• You have a degree in computer science, (business) informatics, or a related discipline
• You have 3 to 5 years of relevant experience in IT Consulting and experience as an Agile Coach, Scrum Master or Product Owner with agile (Client) software development teams delivering Agile capability
• You have a proven track record of orchestrating transition and coaching teams for large and complex Agile programs with the ability to transfer that understanding at all levels of the organisation
• You know exactly what the buzzwords machine learning, cyber resilience, DevOps, agile, AI, and robotics mean
• You enjoy tackling complex digital challenges and are enthusiastic about developing and sharing solutions
• You feel comfortable in interdisciplinary teams and global contexts
• Formal qualifications in on agile or a collection of any of the following industry certifications highly desirable
  - Scrum Alliance (CSM / CSPO / CSD/CSP)
  - Scrum.org (PSM / PSPO / PSD)
  - SAFe (Scaled Agilest / SPC)
• Fluent written and spoken English and Arabic skills
• willingness to travel to our client locations in the Middle East and beyond