What are the responsibilities and job description for the BCG Platinion Tech Advisory & Delivery Intern - Summer 2024 position at Boston Consulting Group?
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.
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.
Platinion was founded in 2000. Since then, we have grown continuously and successfully. Today we have offices in Europe, North and South America, Asia Pacific and Africa.
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.
At BCG Platinion we're bringing design to the front line of business challenges, creating work that solves problems in novel and feasible ways. Our Tech Advisory & Delivery (TAD) team supports 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. The ideal candidate is both passionate as a consultant and technologist.
Tech Advisory & Delivery Interns 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.
- 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.
- Generalists. They have a solid technical foundation and wide range of experience to guide any client on any challenge, agnostic of industry.
- 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.
You're Good At:
- Orchestrating technical program delivery across business stakeholders, complex vendor landscapes and technology ecosystems
- Diagnosing current state technology and developing future state IT architecture through technical requirements and evaluation (e.g., vendor landscape, vendor assessments/selections automation, tech cost benefits analysis, eCommerce, platform valuation and design)
- Delivering data and digital platforms using techniques such as Agile, DevSecOps, and Cloud native architectures
- Developing technology strategies and roadmaps that enable the client's defined business outcomes while considering technical trends within the market
- Designing and implementing governance frameworks to guide decision making and address change in a complex environment
- Communicating the differences and benefits between multiple cloud computing providers
- BA/BS or Masters in information technology, business administration, computer science, economics, Operations, supply chain, logistics, or system engineering, or a related field, graduating between December 2024 and June 2025
- Ideally, 2 years of professional consulting experience in the execution and management of technology
- Expect 50% of travel
- Experience and/or ability to work with clients and BCG leaders to help solve cross-functional business and technology problems across various industries
- Support digital transformation efforts by developing a digital strategy around
- Cloud infrastructure
- Data and digital analytics platform
- Software and product strategy
- Tech, Enterprise Architecture, and Data Governance
- Experience with a wide breadth of tech/digital offerings
- Tech/Digital Strategy
- Tech assessment
- Digital road mapping
- IT benchmarking
- Project and Product management
- Cloud strategy
- Ability to work creatively, autonomously, analytically, in a problem-solving environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (Mastery of PowerPoint)
- Ability to act as trusted advisor and influence clients and BCG case leadership teams
Our timeline: Applications are due on Wednesday, October 18, 2023. You will be asked to complete a video cover letter in order to complete your application. Details will be sent via email on a rolling basis (usually within a week of submitting your application).
Locations: New York, NY; Washington, D.C.
- Note this program is evaluative and interns have the opportunity to receive full-time offers. Our internship program operates in a ''hub'' model to create Platinion Intern cohorts in our New York City and Washington, D.C. offices. If you receive a full time offer, you can request a different office location - as long as it makes sense for chapter and business needs - outside of these summer hubs. That being said, preferred offices for TAD Full Time employees are NYC and Washington, D.C.
The 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, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
Salary : $110,000 - $120,000
