Senior IT Consultant - Platinion - Insurance or Financial Services
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Boston Consulting Group
Senior IT Consultant - Platinion - Insurance or Financial Services
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Locations: Amsterdam | Brussels | London

Who We Are

The 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.

About BCG Platinion

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.

Practice Area

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.

What You’ll Do

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.

As a Senior IT Consultant, you will work in an international environment, closely with our client’s leadership teams to understand their key challenges, define IT strategies, win buy-in for your recommendations and collaborate with BCG case team members to transform client potential into performance with high-impact assignments.
You will deploy customized IT strategies, digital platforms and architecture in order to leverage the digital potential of our customers with state of the art tools such as cloud computing, AI, blockchain, microservices and containerization. You will be responsible for specific parts of the project and will evaluate and coach our clients’ technology teams, manage quality and risk while maintaining client expectations and escalations. You’ll develop ground-breaking projects by enabling our clients to effectively use agile methods and modern approaches in the context of strategic IT implementation.
You will work on a variety of technology topics, applying your technical consulting skills to strategic technology questions. You will also be supported by an extensive training curriculum, plus technology-specific training and mentoring to help build upon you technical skills. You will also help guide junior members of the team, help with project proposals, client care, building relationships with peers and identifying new business opportunities.

What You’ll Bring

  • 6 to 10 years’ experience in Tech strategy and consulting or IT project management.
  • Experience with the insurance industry.
  • Strong knowledge on core insurance processes and on (or multiple) insurance packages like GuideWire, Duck Creek or DXC.
  • A strategic thinker, entrepreneurial, able to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
  • Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills, strong customer focus and mental agility with a results orientation
  • Experience in legacy environments and modern approaches to technology
  • Track record of Agile consulting and advisory with experience in Digital and Agile transformations at scale
  • Experience in IT organisation and process development
  • Experience in the organisation of workshops at peer level and facilitating in client meetings
  • Strong business acumen; can frame complex problems in appropriate business contexts
  • A University degree with above average academic performance in a STEM related field or business management
  • You must also be willing to work outside of Insurance projects when required.
  • For candidates based in London: Fluent in English.
  • For candidates based in the Netherlands: Fluent in English; Dutch is highly desirable.
  • For candidates based in Belgium: Fluent in English, with French or Flemish as an additional requirement.

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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Culture overview
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is built around the idea of creating long-term impact by working with clients on their most important challenges. The culture is collaborative and open, with teams working seamlessly across disciplines and seniority levels. Diversity and inclusion are central to the firm’s identity, with strong representation of women globally and ongoing efforts to build balanced teams. Integrity, respect, and a client-first mindset are woven into daily operations, alongside a strong emphasis on continuous learning, mentorship, and professional development. Employees often describe BCG as a place where collaboration and ambition go hand in hand. The culture is meritocratic, with clear performance expectations and opportunities for growth, which can bring intensity but also recognition and reward. While the environment is high-performing and fast-paced, many highlight the sense of shared purpose and the supportive community as major positives. In the UK, BCG is continuing to expand its London office footprint and embraces a hybrid working model, with an emphasis on in-person collaboration to maintain its strong team culture.
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Tech overview
Technology sits at the heart of BCG’s strategy and delivery. The firm operates through several specialised units, including BCG Platinion, which focuses on technology architecture and IT transformations, BCG GAMMA, which leads on advanced analytics and data science, and BCG X, which drives digital product design and business building. Together, these groups allow BCG to support clients across the full spectrum of digital strategy, from advisory and operating model transformation through to hands-on engineering and implementation. BCG has placed a particular emphasis on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven platforms. These capabilities are applied not only in client work but also internally, with the majority of BCG employees now actively using AI tools in their daily work. The firm encourages experimentation, internal tool development, and the use of generative AI to accelerate workflows. For technology professionals, BCG offers the chance to combine strategic influence with technical execution, bridging the gap between boardroom decisions and real-world digital solutions.
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