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Who We Are
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.
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.
What You Are Good At
IT Architecture and Solution Design:
- Designing solution, application, and data architecture.
- Developing feasibility studies, technical concepts, executing technical proofs of concept, and scaling software solutions.
- Performing technology assessments and implementing IT architectures.
- Analyzing complex IT application landscapes and status quo for IT architecture optimization.
- Reviewing technical architecture and code.
IT Optimization and Transformation:
- Supporting IT functions during mergers and acquisitions, including the functional and technical transformation of an organization’s IT department.
- Restructuring IT processes and organization.
- Optimizing the application development processes.
Implementation Management and Support:
- Designing work packages/modules in IT implementation projects.
- Evaluating products, SW packages, and solutions, including comparative studies across organizations’ systems (e.g., ERPs, HR systems, Data Analytics).
- Assessing quality assurance for IT implementation.
Communication and Collaboration:
- Crafting compelling narratives, translating complex ideas for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Delivering impactful presentations, leading modules, presenting findings, and building consensus with clients.
- Building collaboration, mentoring teams, and sharing knowledge to drive collective success.
Innovation and Growth:
- Driving innovation, uncovering novel ideas and transformative solutions.
- Fostering a growth mindset, continuously learning and applying new skills to grow your impact.
- Assisting with business development through writing proposals and scoping projects.
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business administration, computer science, information systems, or system controls & engineering or a related field (Master’s degree is a plus).
- 4+ years of technology consulting or software engineering experience with more than 1 year in IT or Business architecture discipline.
- Superior technical knowledge, engineering rigor, and creative problem-solving.
- Ability to explain complex technology topics to senior executives.
- Extensive technical expertise and knowledge along one or more of the following topics:
- Cloud technologies, architectures, designing cloud workloads and optimizing cloud footprint (i.e., FinOps).
- Integration methodologies, design patterns and associated tooling (API and Microservices architecture).
- Structured and unstructured databases and usage patterns.
- Data platform architecture and associated patterns (e.g. Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Lakehouse, etc.).
- Data analytics, AI and GenAI architecture.
- Application modernization, programming paradigms and approaches (e.g. object-oriented).
- Mainframe architecture.
- Process automation approaches and tooling (e.g. DevOps, AIOps).
- An agile mindset that moves past blockers and a vision to iteratively migrate to the modern set of architecture capabilities with a lens of business benefits/value.
- Willingness to travel to work with clients and BCG teams. At times, this role involves significant travel to client sites. The amount of travel will depend on client needs and nature of projects.
- Gen AI tool fluency (e.g., proven usage of GenAI such as ChatGPT, Claude) and validation of response.
What We Offer:
At BCG, we care about our people, and offer best in class benefits to support you personally and professionally including:
- An opportunity to work organically across disciplines and across BCG, we offer a unified and unrivaled opportunity that combines strategic thinking with hands-on applications.
- A unique experience to work alongside a team of passionate and driven problem-solvers with a mission to deliver innovative and valuable digital solutions in a supportive environment.
For U.S. Applicants:
The first year base compensation for this role is $150,000 in USD. In addition to your base salary, you will also be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus and BCG’s Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution. BCG also provides a market leading benefits package described below.
At BCG, we are committed to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes everything our employees and their families need to be well and live life to the fullest. We pay the full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees – and their eligible family members.* That’s zero dollars in premiums taken from employee paychecks. All our plans provide best in class coverage:
- Zero-dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children.
- $10(USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs.
- Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 (USD) in orthodontia benefits.
- Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually.
- Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities.
- Fully vested retirement contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not.
- Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, and annual office closure between Christmas and New Years.
- Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement.
- Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.
To learn more about our employee benefits please check our Benefits page.
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.
BCG is an E-Verify Employer. Click here for more information on E-Verify.
Locations: Atlanta | Austin | Boston | Brooklyn | Chicago | Dallas | Denver | Detroit | Durham | Houston | Miami | Minneapolis | Nashville | New York | Philadelphia | Pittsburgh | Summit | Washington
Who We Are
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.
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.
What You Are Good At
IT Architecture and Solution Design:
- Designing solution, application, and data architecture.
- Developing feasibility studies, technical concepts, executing technical proofs of concept, and scaling software solutions.
- Performing technology assessments and implementing IT architectures.
- Analyzing complex IT application landscapes and status quo for IT architecture optimization.
- Reviewing technical architecture and code.
IT Optimization and Transformation:
- Supporting IT functions during mergers and acquisitions, including the functional and technical transformation of an organization’s IT department.
- Restructuring IT processes and organization.
- Optimizing the application development processes.
Implementation Management and Support:
- Designing work packages/modules in IT implementation projects.
- Evaluating products, SW packages, and solutions, including comparative studies across organizations’ systems (e.g., ERPs, HR systems, Data Analytics).
- Assessing quality assurance for IT implementation.
Communication and Collaboration:
- Crafting compelling narratives, translating complex ideas for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Delivering impactful presentations, leading modules, presenting findings, and building consensus with clients.
- Building collaboration, mentoring teams, and sharing knowledge to drive collective success.
Innovation and Growth:
- Driving innovation, uncovering novel ideas and transformative solutions.
- Fostering a growth mindset, continuously learning and applying new skills to grow your impact.
- Assisting with business development through writing proposals and scoping projects.
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business administration, computer science, information systems, or system controls & engineering or a related field (Master’s degree is a plus).
- 4+ years of technology consulting or software engineering experience with more than 1 year in IT or Business architecture discipline.
- Superior technical knowledge, engineering rigor, and creative problem-solving.
- Ability to explain complex technology topics to senior executives.
- Extensive technical expertise and knowledge along one or more of the following topics:
- Cloud technologies, architectures, designing cloud workloads and optimizing cloud footprint (i.e., FinOps).
- Integration methodologies, design patterns and associated tooling (API and Microservices architecture).
- Structured and unstructured databases and usage patterns.
- Data platform architecture and associated patterns (e.g. Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Lakehouse, etc.).
- Data analytics, AI and GenAI architecture.
- Application modernization, programming paradigms and approaches (e.g. object-oriented).
- Mainframe architecture.
- Process automation approaches and tooling (e.g. DevOps, AIOps).
- An agile mindset that moves past blockers and a vision to iteratively migrate to the modern set of architecture capabilities with a lens of business benefits/value.
- Willingness to travel to work with clients and BCG teams. At times, this role involves significant travel to client sites. The amount of travel will depend on client needs and nature of projects.
- Gen AI tool fluency (e.g., proven usage of GenAI such as ChatGPT, Claude) and validation of response.
What We Offer:
At BCG, we care about our people, and offer best in class benefits to support you personally and professionally including:
- An opportunity to work organically across disciplines and across BCG, we offer a unified and unrivaled opportunity that combines strategic thinking with hands-on applications.
- A unique experience to work alongside a team of passionate and driven problem-solvers with a mission to deliver innovative and valuable digital solutions in a supportive environment.
For U.S. Applicants:
The first year base compensation for this role is $150,000 in USD. In addition to your base salary, you will also be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus and BCG’s Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution. BCG also provides a market leading benefits package described below.
At BCG, we are committed to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes everything our employees and their families need to be well and live life to the fullest. We pay the full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees – and their eligible family members.* That’s zero dollars in premiums taken from employee paychecks. All our plans provide best in class coverage:
- Zero-dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children.
- $10(USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs.
- Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 (USD) in orthodontia benefits.
- Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually.
- Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities.
- Fully vested retirement contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not.
- Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, and annual office closure between Christmas and New Years.
- Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement.
- Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.
To learn more about our employee benefits please check our Benefits page.
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.
BCG is an E-Verify Employer. Click here for more information on E-Verify.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding STEM OPT Authorization in Senior IT Architect
Verify your CIP code before applying
Check that your STEM degree maps to an approved CIP code on the Department of Homeland Security STEM Designated Degree Program List. Architecture-adjacent IT degrees sometimes fall outside the list, so confirm with your DSO before targeting roles requiring the full 36-month authorization window.
Confirm E-Verify status before accepting offers
Ask HR to share the company's E-Verify Company ID during the offer stage, not after signing. Employers can look enrolled but have let their certification lapse. Cross-check enrollment status through the E-Verify employer search before committing to a start date.
Structure your I-983 training plan around architecture deliverables
Generic training plans get rejected. Tie each learning objective to a concrete Senior IT Architect deliverable, such as designing cloud migration frameworks or leading enterprise security architecture reviews. Your DSO and manager must both sign the plan before your extension activates.
Target enterprise employers with active LCA filings
Use Migrate Mate to filter Senior IT Architect roles by employers with verified DOL Labor Condition Application filing history, so you're applying to companies that have already navigated STEM OPT onboarding and understand the E-Verify requirement without needing to be educated on it.
Use OFLC Wage Search to negotiate from a defensible baseline
Senior IT Architect prevailing wages vary significantly by metropolitan area and experience level. Pull the Level III and Level IV wage data from OFLC Wage Search for your target city before your offer call so you're negotiating from DOL-defined benchmarks, not anecdotal ranges.
Align your cap-gap window with your H-1B petition timeline
If your OPT expires before October 1 and your employer files an H-1B petition during the registration window, cap-gap protection extends your work authorization through September 30. Coordinate your Senior IT Architect start date and project commitments around this window so there's no gap in your ability to work.
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Find Senior IT Architect JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Does a Senior IT Architect role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
Yes, if your degree is in a DHS-designated STEM field such as computer science, information systems, or electrical engineering, and the role maps to that field. The job title alone doesn't determine eligibility. Your DSO will evaluate whether the Senior IT Architect position constitutes practical training directly related to your degree program before approving the extension through SEVIS.
What does the I-983 training plan need to include for a Senior IT Architect position?
The I-983 must identify specific learning objectives tied to your degree field, the skills you'll develop, and how the employer will evaluate your progress. For a Senior IT Architect, this typically means documenting architecture design responsibilities, technology governance activities, and project leadership scope. Both you and an authorized company representative must sign the plan, and it must be in place before your STEM OPT extension start date.
How do I verify that a Senior IT Architect employer is enrolled in E-Verify?
Ask the recruiter or HR contact for the company's E-Verify Company ID and verify it through the E-Verify employer search tool. Enrollment status can lapse if a company doesn't renew, so don't rely on a job posting that says 'E-Verify employer' without independently confirming active status. This step is required by USCIS before your STEM OPT extension can be authorized.
How do I find Senior IT Architect employers who are already familiar with STEM OPT requirements?
Migrate Mate filters Senior IT Architect listings by employers with verified DOL LCA filing history, which indicates prior experience sponsoring international candidates. Targeting these employers reduces the onboarding friction around E-Verify enrollment, I-983 training plan setup, and USCIS reporting obligations, since their HR teams have handled the process before.
What happens to my STEM OPT authorization if my H-1B is selected in the lottery but my OPT expires before October 1?
Cap-gap protection automatically extends your work authorization if your employer files a timely H-1B petition during the registration window and you're in a valid OPT period when your F-1 status would otherwise expire. Your EAD remains valid through September 30 of that year. Coordinate your Senior IT Architect project timeline with your employer so there's no interruption to billable work or client-facing responsibilities during this window.
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