Insight Investment are looking for a Cyber Defence Specialist to join our Cyber Security team. This role will maintain the Sentinel Threat Detection capability for Insight's bespoke application. The successful candidate will maintain and optimise the Microsoft Sentinel platform, ensuring its stability, performance, and integration with other security tools, as well as developing use cases for the SOC team. Alongside this, the candidate will support the 24/7 SOC team, providing incident response, and continuously improving detection and automation capabilities. Role Responsibilities Maintain and optimise the Microsoft Sentinel environment, including configuration, performance tuning, and health monitoring. Onboard new data sources, connectors, and log streams to support evolving security requirements. Develop and enhance analytics rules, workbooks, and playbooks to improve detection and response. Monitor security alerts alongside the 24/7 SOC team, providing advanced analysis and escalation support. Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Sentinel ingestion, queries, and automation workflows. Collaborate with SOC analysts, application and development teams, security engineers and security architects to ensure effective threat detection and incident response. Document configurations, processes, and improvements for operational continuity. Experience Required Experience developing, testing and implementing use cases/detection rules for the Sentinel SIEM environment. Strong hands on experience with Microsoft Sentinel and related Azure security services. Proficiency in Kusto Query Language (KQL) for creating and tuning detection rules and dashboards. Solid understanding of SIEM concepts, log ingestion, and security monitoring practices. Experience with incident response workflows and SOC operations. Ability to work collaboratively with development, engineering and monitoring teams. Excellent problem solving and communication skills. Advantageous Experience with SOAR automation and playbook development. Familiarity with cloud security monitoring across Azure, AWS, or GCP. Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK framework and threat detection methodologies. Exposure to compliance driven environments and security best practices. Relevant certifications (e.g., SC-200, AZ-500, Security+). About Insight Investment Insight Investment is a leading asset manager focused on designing investment solutions to meet its clients' needs. Founded in 2002, Insight's collaborative approach has delivered both investment performance and growth in assets under management. Insight manages assets across its core liability driven investment, risk management, full spectre fixed income, currency and absolute return capabilities. Insight has a global network of operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Japan and Australia. More information about Insight Investment can be found at:
Dec 05, 2025
Full time
Insight Investment are looking for a Cyber Defence Specialist to join our Cyber Security team. This role will maintain the Sentinel Threat Detection capability for Insight's bespoke application. The successful candidate will maintain and optimise the Microsoft Sentinel platform, ensuring its stability, performance, and integration with other security tools, as well as developing use cases for the SOC team. Alongside this, the candidate will support the 24/7 SOC team, providing incident response, and continuously improving detection and automation capabilities. Role Responsibilities Maintain and optimise the Microsoft Sentinel environment, including configuration, performance tuning, and health monitoring. Onboard new data sources, connectors, and log streams to support evolving security requirements. Develop and enhance analytics rules, workbooks, and playbooks to improve detection and response. Monitor security alerts alongside the 24/7 SOC team, providing advanced analysis and escalation support. Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Sentinel ingestion, queries, and automation workflows. Collaborate with SOC analysts, application and development teams, security engineers and security architects to ensure effective threat detection and incident response. Document configurations, processes, and improvements for operational continuity. Experience Required Experience developing, testing and implementing use cases/detection rules for the Sentinel SIEM environment. Strong hands on experience with Microsoft Sentinel and related Azure security services. Proficiency in Kusto Query Language (KQL) for creating and tuning detection rules and dashboards. Solid understanding of SIEM concepts, log ingestion, and security monitoring practices. Experience with incident response workflows and SOC operations. Ability to work collaboratively with development, engineering and monitoring teams. Excellent problem solving and communication skills. Advantageous Experience with SOAR automation and playbook development. Familiarity with cloud security monitoring across Azure, AWS, or GCP. Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK framework and threat detection methodologies. Exposure to compliance driven environments and security best practices. Relevant certifications (e.g., SC-200, AZ-500, Security+). About Insight Investment Insight Investment is a leading asset manager focused on designing investment solutions to meet its clients' needs. Founded in 2002, Insight's collaborative approach has delivered both investment performance and growth in assets under management. Insight manages assets across its core liability driven investment, risk management, full spectre fixed income, currency and absolute return capabilities. Insight has a global network of operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Japan and Australia. More information about Insight Investment can be found at:
Location: Guernsey, Haywards Heath, Home Office (Remote) or Manchester Salary: £40,000 to £50,000 - depending on experience Department: Technology and Data We're First Central Insurance & Technology Group (First Central for short), an innovative, market-leading insurance company. We protect the things customers love so they can get on with what matters to them in life. Data drives us. It fuels our outstanding distribution, finance, technology and legal services. Our underwriting skills are built on data expertise; it creates the insights we need to give the right cover to the right customers at the right price. But, it's the people inside and outside our business that power us. They make us stand out, help us succeed. We're ambitious. We're growing. We've won awards. Ready to take your career to the next level? Join our innovative technology and data teams as a Business Intelligence Analyst and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Be part of our innovation journey. We're looking for a Business Intelligence Analyst to design, create and maintain reports, visualisations and dashboards that enable better use and wider consumption of First Central's data. You'll work to help develop business requirements and specify and develop reporting solutions with a focus on cloud data technologies and will be responsible for understanding the Business' requirement so that appropriate solutions can be designed and delivered. Could you fit the bill? We're big on working flexibly - you'll spend most of your time working from home, with occasional visits to the office. But of course, it's your choice - if you prefer to be in the office more - that's good with us too. We have offices located in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, Salford Quays, Manchester, and Guernsey. It's your choice - if you live further afield, we'll accept applications for remote workers! Core skills we're looking for to succeed in the role: Agile: You'll have experience working in an Agile environment. Data Reporting and Visualisation: You'll be able to demonstrate expert data reporting and visualisation using Power BI with strong Power Query and DAX skills. Large Data Sets: You'll possess experience of working with large data sets in an enterprise environment. Microsoft Data Components: You'll have strong experience in Microsoft data components including: Azure Analysis Services Databricks Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Synapse Analytics) Data Quality and Security: You'll have experience of using tools and techniques for ensuring data quality, security, validation and recovery. Analytical Skills: You possess strong analytical skills, with the ability to adopt a logical approach to solving problems. What's Involved: You'll work with other members of the Data & Analytics team to assist in the definition and development of processes and business intelligence solutions that provide secure and efficient data reporting, visualisation and analytics. You'll develop solutions that connect to a variety of on- and off-premise data sources, ensuring data is optimised to meet requirements for business and technical use cases. You'll present information for business and technical users through engaging and interactive reports and visualisations. You'll apply business and logic rules to derive new measures, new dimensions and aggregated values. You'll support relationships with the other areas of FCG to ensure that requirements can be developed. You'll ensure solutions support the architectural direction of FCG technology and use approved technical components. You'll provide analytical skills into understanding and communicating design specifications to facilitate technical development including the creation of both high-level and detailed design documentation and impact estimation. You'll fulfil the role of a subject matter expert in data reporting best practice and implement those practices. You'll work to the agreed prioritisation of requirements for development and to the agreed delivery dates against these requirements. You'll assist in the identification of root causes and fixes for major incidents where required. Core Competencies: Experience working in an Agile environment. Expert data reporting and visualisation using Power BI & strong Power Query and DAX skills. Experience of working with large data sets in an enterprise environment. Dimensional model design and implementation. Experience in Microsoft data components including: Azure Analysis Services Databricks Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Synapse Analytics) Tools and techniques for ensuring data quality, security, validation and recovery. Strong analytical skills, with the ability to adopt a logical approach to solving problems. Data exploration, cleansing and preparation. A Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related degree. Azure Certification is desirable. Experience of testing tools and performance monitoring. Understanding of the retail Insurance business. Knowledge of Data Warehousing principles. Behaviours: An organised and pro-active approach. A flexible approach and positive attitude. Emphasis on attention to detail and accuracy. Strives to drive business improvements to contribute to the success of the business. Embrace, embed and incorporate the company values. Ready to make a positive impact? Apply now and be part of something big! What can we do for you? People first. Always. We're passionate about our colleagues and know the best people deserve an extraordinary working environment. We owe it to them so that's what we offer. Our workplaces are energetic, inspirational, supportive. To get a taste of the advantages you'll enjoy, take a look at all our perks in full here. Intrigued? Our Talent team can tell you everything you need to know about what we want and what we're offering, so feel free to get in touch. 86% of people would recommend a friend to work at First Central Simply Health Cash plan. Reclaim the cost of your eye tests, dental appts, physiotherapy and more. Flexible Bank Holidays Eight flexible bank holidays; you can choose which festivals you observe. We're passionate about it. Everyone gets a paid day off annually to volunteer. Electric Car Scheme Plug into our Electric Car Scheme for a deal with insurance, road tax and servicing. Flexible Working We're flexible; most roles let you mix office and home working. We work fluidly around core hours. Your Time in Need Your Time in Need: five days' leave so you can deal with life stuff. We'll support you.
Dec 05, 2025
Full time
Location: Guernsey, Haywards Heath, Home Office (Remote) or Manchester Salary: £40,000 to £50,000 - depending on experience Department: Technology and Data We're First Central Insurance & Technology Group (First Central for short), an innovative, market-leading insurance company. We protect the things customers love so they can get on with what matters to them in life. Data drives us. It fuels our outstanding distribution, finance, technology and legal services. Our underwriting skills are built on data expertise; it creates the insights we need to give the right cover to the right customers at the right price. But, it's the people inside and outside our business that power us. They make us stand out, help us succeed. We're ambitious. We're growing. We've won awards. Ready to take your career to the next level? Join our innovative technology and data teams as a Business Intelligence Analyst and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Be part of our innovation journey. We're looking for a Business Intelligence Analyst to design, create and maintain reports, visualisations and dashboards that enable better use and wider consumption of First Central's data. You'll work to help develop business requirements and specify and develop reporting solutions with a focus on cloud data technologies and will be responsible for understanding the Business' requirement so that appropriate solutions can be designed and delivered. Could you fit the bill? We're big on working flexibly - you'll spend most of your time working from home, with occasional visits to the office. But of course, it's your choice - if you prefer to be in the office more - that's good with us too. We have offices located in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, Salford Quays, Manchester, and Guernsey. It's your choice - if you live further afield, we'll accept applications for remote workers! Core skills we're looking for to succeed in the role: Agile: You'll have experience working in an Agile environment. Data Reporting and Visualisation: You'll be able to demonstrate expert data reporting and visualisation using Power BI with strong Power Query and DAX skills. Large Data Sets: You'll possess experience of working with large data sets in an enterprise environment. Microsoft Data Components: You'll have strong experience in Microsoft data components including: Azure Analysis Services Databricks Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Synapse Analytics) Data Quality and Security: You'll have experience of using tools and techniques for ensuring data quality, security, validation and recovery. Analytical Skills: You possess strong analytical skills, with the ability to adopt a logical approach to solving problems. What's Involved: You'll work with other members of the Data & Analytics team to assist in the definition and development of processes and business intelligence solutions that provide secure and efficient data reporting, visualisation and analytics. You'll develop solutions that connect to a variety of on- and off-premise data sources, ensuring data is optimised to meet requirements for business and technical use cases. You'll present information for business and technical users through engaging and interactive reports and visualisations. You'll apply business and logic rules to derive new measures, new dimensions and aggregated values. You'll support relationships with the other areas of FCG to ensure that requirements can be developed. You'll ensure solutions support the architectural direction of FCG technology and use approved technical components. You'll provide analytical skills into understanding and communicating design specifications to facilitate technical development including the creation of both high-level and detailed design documentation and impact estimation. You'll fulfil the role of a subject matter expert in data reporting best practice and implement those practices. You'll work to the agreed prioritisation of requirements for development and to the agreed delivery dates against these requirements. You'll assist in the identification of root causes and fixes for major incidents where required. Core Competencies: Experience working in an Agile environment. Expert data reporting and visualisation using Power BI & strong Power Query and DAX skills. Experience of working with large data sets in an enterprise environment. Dimensional model design and implementation. Experience in Microsoft data components including: Azure Analysis Services Databricks Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Synapse Analytics) Tools and techniques for ensuring data quality, security, validation and recovery. Strong analytical skills, with the ability to adopt a logical approach to solving problems. Data exploration, cleansing and preparation. A Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related degree. Azure Certification is desirable. Experience of testing tools and performance monitoring. Understanding of the retail Insurance business. Knowledge of Data Warehousing principles. Behaviours: An organised and pro-active approach. A flexible approach and positive attitude. Emphasis on attention to detail and accuracy. Strives to drive business improvements to contribute to the success of the business. Embrace, embed and incorporate the company values. Ready to make a positive impact? Apply now and be part of something big! What can we do for you? People first. Always. We're passionate about our colleagues and know the best people deserve an extraordinary working environment. We owe it to them so that's what we offer. Our workplaces are energetic, inspirational, supportive. To get a taste of the advantages you'll enjoy, take a look at all our perks in full here. Intrigued? Our Talent team can tell you everything you need to know about what we want and what we're offering, so feel free to get in touch. 86% of people would recommend a friend to work at First Central Simply Health Cash plan. Reclaim the cost of your eye tests, dental appts, physiotherapy and more. Flexible Bank Holidays Eight flexible bank holidays; you can choose which festivals you observe. We're passionate about it. Everyone gets a paid day off annually to volunteer. Electric Car Scheme Plug into our Electric Car Scheme for a deal with insurance, road tax and servicing. Flexible Working We're flexible; most roles let you mix office and home working. We work fluidly around core hours. Your Time in Need Your Time in Need: five days' leave so you can deal with life stuff. We'll support you.
Active Directory SME +6 months + +Fully remote working +SC cleared role + 575 - 625 a day Inside IR35 Skills: +AD design +GPO +AZure AD As the Active Directory SME, you will take ownership of the design, architecture, and operational excellence of Microsoft Active Directory services. You will act as the technical authority for AD-related activities, ensuring the environment remains secure, scalable, compliant, and aligned to organisational strategy. This role includes both hands-on engineering and strategic project leadership. Key Responsibilities Core Technical Activities Design & Architecture Develop and maintain AD architecture for scalability, security, and high performance. Plan and implement domain and forest designs, trust relationships, and OU structures. Administration & Operations Manage domain controllers, replication, DNS, and DHCP integration. Create, maintain, and troubleshoot Group Policy Objects (GPOs). Monitor AD health, diagnose replication issues, and resolve authentication failures. Security & Compliance Implement enterprise AD security best practices (e.g., tiered admin model, secure LDAP). Perform audits of accounts, groups, and permissions. Support SOX, GDPR, and other compliance requirements through logging and access control. Identity & Access Management Manage full user lifecycle: provisioning, deprovisioning, and RBAC. Integrate AD with IAM and cloud platforms (Azure AD, Okta, etc.). Support SSO and federation (ADFS, SAML, OAuth). Migrations & Upgrades Lead AD migrations, domain/forest consolidations, and Windows Server upgrades. Plan schema extensions and ensure application compatibility. Disaster Recovery & Continuity Develop, document, and test AD backup and recovery processes. Maintain high availability and failover strategies for critical AD components. Automation & Scripting Use PowerShell to automate tasks, generate reports, and streamline operations. Build scripts for bulk user management, GPO deployment, and auditing. Collaboration & Support Partner with infrastructure, security, and application teams to deliver integrated services. Provide SME-level support for escalated incidents and complex service requests. Experience & Skills Required The ideal contractor will bring 5+ years of hands-on experience in a similar AD-focused role, with expertise in: Active Directory Architecture & Replication GPO Design, Deployment & Troubleshooting DNS/DHCP integration with AD PowerShell scripting for automation and reporting ADFS configuration and federation support Azure AD - hybrid identity & sync (AAD Connect) Kerberos and NTLM authentication LDAP / LDAPS Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) It is essential for this role that you hold active SC clear ance. If you'd like to discuss this Active Directory SME role in more detail, please send your updated CV to (url removed) and I will get in touch.
Dec 05, 2025
Contractor
Active Directory SME +6 months + +Fully remote working +SC cleared role + 575 - 625 a day Inside IR35 Skills: +AD design +GPO +AZure AD As the Active Directory SME, you will take ownership of the design, architecture, and operational excellence of Microsoft Active Directory services. You will act as the technical authority for AD-related activities, ensuring the environment remains secure, scalable, compliant, and aligned to organisational strategy. This role includes both hands-on engineering and strategic project leadership. Key Responsibilities Core Technical Activities Design & Architecture Develop and maintain AD architecture for scalability, security, and high performance. Plan and implement domain and forest designs, trust relationships, and OU structures. Administration & Operations Manage domain controllers, replication, DNS, and DHCP integration. Create, maintain, and troubleshoot Group Policy Objects (GPOs). Monitor AD health, diagnose replication issues, and resolve authentication failures. Security & Compliance Implement enterprise AD security best practices (e.g., tiered admin model, secure LDAP). Perform audits of accounts, groups, and permissions. Support SOX, GDPR, and other compliance requirements through logging and access control. Identity & Access Management Manage full user lifecycle: provisioning, deprovisioning, and RBAC. Integrate AD with IAM and cloud platforms (Azure AD, Okta, etc.). Support SSO and federation (ADFS, SAML, OAuth). Migrations & Upgrades Lead AD migrations, domain/forest consolidations, and Windows Server upgrades. Plan schema extensions and ensure application compatibility. Disaster Recovery & Continuity Develop, document, and test AD backup and recovery processes. Maintain high availability and failover strategies for critical AD components. Automation & Scripting Use PowerShell to automate tasks, generate reports, and streamline operations. Build scripts for bulk user management, GPO deployment, and auditing. Collaboration & Support Partner with infrastructure, security, and application teams to deliver integrated services. Provide SME-level support for escalated incidents and complex service requests. Experience & Skills Required The ideal contractor will bring 5+ years of hands-on experience in a similar AD-focused role, with expertise in: Active Directory Architecture & Replication GPO Design, Deployment & Troubleshooting DNS/DHCP integration with AD PowerShell scripting for automation and reporting ADFS configuration and federation support Azure AD - hybrid identity & sync (AAD Connect) Kerberos and NTLM authentication LDAP / LDAPS Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) It is essential for this role that you hold active SC clear ance. If you'd like to discuss this Active Directory SME role in more detail, please send your updated CV to (url removed) and I will get in touch.
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. 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 At BCG Platinion we're keen to engage with experienced, passionate and creative IT Architects who will help us unlock our client's digital potential and ignite change. Meaningful work is at the core of everything we do. We build unique solutions to the complexities our clients face, while providing our people with opportunities to explore and grow. A community of leading experts, BCG Platinion team members have a natural springboard for professional growth and deeper opportunities to excel. As a Senior IT Architect focused on CRM and Enterprise Solutions, you will advise clients on technology strategies, ensuring flexibility and scalability in CRM architectures. You will work alongside a bold, energetic and collaborative team. You will evaluate and coach our clients' technology teams, define technology strategies, architect their solutions and help us design the future. You will develop and grow by being exposed to new and complex challenges daily. Together with our clients, you will develop superior digital and technology concepts and architecture solutions as well as support technical implementations actively and on site, applying your sound technical know-how, your understanding of business contexts, and your analytical and conceptual skills. Your responsibilities will include : Develop comprehensive CRM strategies that align with enterprise goals and deliver value across marketing, sales, service, and customer experience functions. Evaluate, compare, and integrate CRM and Commerce solutions from leading platforms (Salesforce, Microsoft, Oracle, etc.) based on client needs. Design robust architectures that integrate CRM and commerce solutions with ERP systems, data platforms, analytics tools (Tableau, Power BI), and external systems. Lead large-scale digital transformation projects, ensuring alignment of CRM solutions with ERP, data lakes, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD frameworks. Work with C-level stakeholders to define CRM technology roadmaps, manage build-vs-buy decisions, and ensure seamless integration across systems You will work alongside a bold, energetic and collaborative team. You will evaluate and coach our clients' technology teams, define technology strategies, architect their solutions and help us design the future. You will develop and grow by being exposed to new and complex challenges daily. What You'll Bring 5 to 10 years of experience in IT architecture with a strong focus on CRM solutions, in consulting, working with clients in the consumer goods, industrial goods or retail sectors. Demonstrated experience with CRM platforms such as Salesforce, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, or Oracle working across sales, service and marketing. Proven expertise in delivering complex CRM integrations with external systems (Data Lakes, ERP, analytical platforms, and messaging systems) Experience with commerce platforms (such as Salesforce commerce cloud, Adobe commerce, etc ) and integration platforms (such as Mulesoft, Dell Boomi, etc) Have experience with, and understand how to lead, legacy integration and remediation (facades, strangler approaches, et. al.) Overview of in modern architecture patterns: CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native development, and API-led integrations. Deep understanding of: Different integration patterns and best practices such as events, synchronous vs. asynchronous E2E business processes: Lead-to-Quote, Quote-to-Cash, Service Management, Marketing, etc. Analytical mindset and excellent problem-solving skills. Strong communication skills for stakeholder engagement at all levels Ability to work under pressure and willingness to travel to clients world-wide Strong communication and presentation skills. University degree with above-average academic performance in a mathematical-scientific field, information technology, or business administration. Additional info 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.
Dec 05, 2025
Full time
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. 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 At BCG Platinion we're keen to engage with experienced, passionate and creative IT Architects who will help us unlock our client's digital potential and ignite change. Meaningful work is at the core of everything we do. We build unique solutions to the complexities our clients face, while providing our people with opportunities to explore and grow. A community of leading experts, BCG Platinion team members have a natural springboard for professional growth and deeper opportunities to excel. As a Senior IT Architect focused on CRM and Enterprise Solutions, you will advise clients on technology strategies, ensuring flexibility and scalability in CRM architectures. You will work alongside a bold, energetic and collaborative team. You will evaluate and coach our clients' technology teams, define technology strategies, architect their solutions and help us design the future. You will develop and grow by being exposed to new and complex challenges daily. Together with our clients, you will develop superior digital and technology concepts and architecture solutions as well as support technical implementations actively and on site, applying your sound technical know-how, your understanding of business contexts, and your analytical and conceptual skills. Your responsibilities will include : Develop comprehensive CRM strategies that align with enterprise goals and deliver value across marketing, sales, service, and customer experience functions. Evaluate, compare, and integrate CRM and Commerce solutions from leading platforms (Salesforce, Microsoft, Oracle, etc.) based on client needs. Design robust architectures that integrate CRM and commerce solutions with ERP systems, data platforms, analytics tools (Tableau, Power BI), and external systems. Lead large-scale digital transformation projects, ensuring alignment of CRM solutions with ERP, data lakes, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD frameworks. Work with C-level stakeholders to define CRM technology roadmaps, manage build-vs-buy decisions, and ensure seamless integration across systems You will work alongside a bold, energetic and collaborative team. You will evaluate and coach our clients' technology teams, define technology strategies, architect their solutions and help us design the future. You will develop and grow by being exposed to new and complex challenges daily. What You'll Bring 5 to 10 years of experience in IT architecture with a strong focus on CRM solutions, in consulting, working with clients in the consumer goods, industrial goods or retail sectors. Demonstrated experience with CRM platforms such as Salesforce, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, or Oracle working across sales, service and marketing. Proven expertise in delivering complex CRM integrations with external systems (Data Lakes, ERP, analytical platforms, and messaging systems) Experience with commerce platforms (such as Salesforce commerce cloud, Adobe commerce, etc ) and integration platforms (such as Mulesoft, Dell Boomi, etc) Have experience with, and understand how to lead, legacy integration and remediation (facades, strangler approaches, et. al.) Overview of in modern architecture patterns: CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native development, and API-led integrations. Deep understanding of: Different integration patterns and best practices such as events, synchronous vs. asynchronous E2E business processes: Lead-to-Quote, Quote-to-Cash, Service Management, Marketing, etc. Analytical mindset and excellent problem-solving skills. Strong communication skills for stakeholder engagement at all levels Ability to work under pressure and willingness to travel to clients world-wide Strong communication and presentation skills. University degree with above-average academic performance in a mathematical-scientific field, information technology, or business administration. Additional info 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.
Lead Solution Architect Location: Lincoln / Hybrid Salary: £60,000 £65,000 A large, digitally ambitious organisation is transforming its technology landscape and is seeking an experienced, forward-thinking Lead Solution Architect to help drive that change. If youre motivated by strategic influence, modern architecture practice and delivering meaningful value for communities, this role offers the chance to lead at scale. About the Role: This senior technical leadership role reports to the Head of Strategy, Architecture & Product. Youll lead a small team of Solution Architects, guide engineering activity across Agile delivery teams, and chair the organisations Digital Design Authority. Youll define and maintain enterprise-level architecture across a diverse portfolio, ensuring alignment with strategic goals while supporting the adoption of cloud, data and automation technologies. The role also includes assuring supplier-led designs and deputising at senior governance boards. What Youll Be Doing: Leading a team of Solution Architects and assuring technical delivery Owning and evolving the strategic architecture framework and roadmap Chairing the Digital Design Authority (DDA) Working closely with Product Owners, Business Partners, delivery teams and suppliers Driving scalable, secure and high-performing solutions Providing assurance on third-party designs and supplier activity Supporting governance, cyber resilience, data architecture and cloud optimisation Championing a modern, product-based IT and digital model Promoting continuous improvement and architectural maturity Youll bring: Extensive solution architecture experience with strong technical assurance skills Knowledge of cloud technologies (e.g. Azure), Microsoft Fabric, Power Platform and integration standards Experience in architectural governance and technical design forums Excellent communication and senior stakeholder engagement Understanding of TOGAF, ITIL and security-by-design principles A collaborative mindset and enthusiasm for mentoring and capability building Why Join? Shape digital outcomes that impact a large and diverse community Influence architecture, ways of working and technology investment Hybrid working with flexibility as standard Professional development including leadership programmes and memberships Collaborate with skilled technologists and delivery partners across the sector If this sounds of interest, then please apply now! James Andrews is acting as an employment agency and business in relation to this role. At James Andrews Recruitment Solutions we try to respond to all applications personally, however, due to the high volume of applications this is not always possible. If you have not heard back from us within 72 hours, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Don't forget our recommendation scheme: Recommend a friend or colleague to us and receive up to £100 each once they have completed 20 days in a role via James Andrews! Terms and conditions apply, contact us for details. JBRP1_UKTJ
Dec 05, 2025
Full time
Lead Solution Architect Location: Lincoln / Hybrid Salary: £60,000 £65,000 A large, digitally ambitious organisation is transforming its technology landscape and is seeking an experienced, forward-thinking Lead Solution Architect to help drive that change. If youre motivated by strategic influence, modern architecture practice and delivering meaningful value for communities, this role offers the chance to lead at scale. About the Role: This senior technical leadership role reports to the Head of Strategy, Architecture & Product. Youll lead a small team of Solution Architects, guide engineering activity across Agile delivery teams, and chair the organisations Digital Design Authority. Youll define and maintain enterprise-level architecture across a diverse portfolio, ensuring alignment with strategic goals while supporting the adoption of cloud, data and automation technologies. The role also includes assuring supplier-led designs and deputising at senior governance boards. What Youll Be Doing: Leading a team of Solution Architects and assuring technical delivery Owning and evolving the strategic architecture framework and roadmap Chairing the Digital Design Authority (DDA) Working closely with Product Owners, Business Partners, delivery teams and suppliers Driving scalable, secure and high-performing solutions Providing assurance on third-party designs and supplier activity Supporting governance, cyber resilience, data architecture and cloud optimisation Championing a modern, product-based IT and digital model Promoting continuous improvement and architectural maturity Youll bring: Extensive solution architecture experience with strong technical assurance skills Knowledge of cloud technologies (e.g. Azure), Microsoft Fabric, Power Platform and integration standards Experience in architectural governance and technical design forums Excellent communication and senior stakeholder engagement Understanding of TOGAF, ITIL and security-by-design principles A collaborative mindset and enthusiasm for mentoring and capability building Why Join? Shape digital outcomes that impact a large and diverse community Influence architecture, ways of working and technology investment Hybrid working with flexibility as standard Professional development including leadership programmes and memberships Collaborate with skilled technologists and delivery partners across the sector If this sounds of interest, then please apply now! James Andrews is acting as an employment agency and business in relation to this role. At James Andrews Recruitment Solutions we try to respond to all applications personally, however, due to the high volume of applications this is not always possible. If you have not heard back from us within 72 hours, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Don't forget our recommendation scheme: Recommend a friend or colleague to us and receive up to £100 each once they have completed 20 days in a role via James Andrews! Terms and conditions apply, contact us for details. JBRP1_UKTJ
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. 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 At BCG Platinion we're keen to engage with experienced, passionate and creative IT Architects who will help us unlock our client's digital potential and ignite change. Meaningful work is at the core of everything we do. We build unique solutions to the complexities our clients face, while providing our people with opportunities to explore and grow. A community of leading experts, BCG Platinion team members have a natural springboard for professional growth and deeper opportunities to excel. As a Lead IT Architect focused on CRM and Enterprise Solutions, you will advise clients on technology strategies, ensuring flexibility and scalability in CRM architectures. Your responsibilities will include: Define business-aligned CRM strategies across sales, service, and marketing functions to optimize customer journeys. Evaluate and recommend CRM solutions from platforms such as Salesforce, SAP CX, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle, and Zoho based on business requirements and industry best practices. Analyze and reimagine end-to-end processes (Lead-to-Quote, Quote-to-Cash, Service Management, Customer Support) to maximize CRM value. Build compelling business cases for CRM transformation initiatives, demonstrating ROI and tangible outcomes for clients. Collaborate with client teams to drive organizational change, ensuring user adoption and process alignment for CRM implementations. You will work closely with clients to understand their issues, define IT strategies, architecture solutions, win buy-in for your recommendations, and collaborate with fellow BCGers to transform client potential into performance. You will be given end-to-end responsibility for larger, highly technical and more complex 'modules' within a project, and begin to develop specialized knowledge to help you solve clients' problems. You will start to take on team lead responsibilities and demonstrate intellectual leadership Together with our clients, you will develop superior digital and technology concepts and architecture solutions as well as support technical implementations actively and on site, applying your sound technical know-how, your understanding of business contexts, and your analytical and conceptual 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. Finally as a Lead IT Architect you will contribute to the Practice Area development and help to build the BCG brand as a key member of the case team. What You'll Bring 10 to 15 years of experience in IT architecture with a strong focus on CRM solutions, in consulting, working with clients in the consumer goods, industrial goods or retail sectors. Demonstrated experience with CRM platforms such as Salesforce, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, or Oracle working across sales, service and marketing. Proven expertise in delivering complex CRM integrations with external systems (Data Lakes, ERP, analytical platforms, and messaging systems) Experience with commerce platforms (such as Salesforce commerce cloud, Adobe commerce, etc ) and integration platforms (such as Mulesoft, Dell Boomi, etc) Have experience with, and understand how to lead, legacy integration and remediation (facades, strangler approaches, et. al.) Overview of in modern architecture patterns: CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native development, and API-led integrations. Deep understanding of: Different integration patterns and best practices such as events, synchronous vs. asynchronous E2E business processes: Lead-to-Quote, Quote-to-Cash, Service Management, Marketing, etc. Analytical mindset and excellent problem-solving skills. Experience of managing teams. Strong communication skills for stakeholder engagement at all levels Ability to work under pressure and willingness to travel to clients world-wide Strong communication and presentation skills. University degree with above-average academic performance in a mathematical-scientific field, information technology, or business administration. Additional info 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.
Dec 05, 2025
Full time
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. 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 At BCG Platinion we're keen to engage with experienced, passionate and creative IT Architects who will help us unlock our client's digital potential and ignite change. Meaningful work is at the core of everything we do. We build unique solutions to the complexities our clients face, while providing our people with opportunities to explore and grow. A community of leading experts, BCG Platinion team members have a natural springboard for professional growth and deeper opportunities to excel. As a Lead IT Architect focused on CRM and Enterprise Solutions, you will advise clients on technology strategies, ensuring flexibility and scalability in CRM architectures. Your responsibilities will include: Define business-aligned CRM strategies across sales, service, and marketing functions to optimize customer journeys. Evaluate and recommend CRM solutions from platforms such as Salesforce, SAP CX, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle, and Zoho based on business requirements and industry best practices. Analyze and reimagine end-to-end processes (Lead-to-Quote, Quote-to-Cash, Service Management, Customer Support) to maximize CRM value. Build compelling business cases for CRM transformation initiatives, demonstrating ROI and tangible outcomes for clients. Collaborate with client teams to drive organizational change, ensuring user adoption and process alignment for CRM implementations. You will work closely with clients to understand their issues, define IT strategies, architecture solutions, win buy-in for your recommendations, and collaborate with fellow BCGers to transform client potential into performance. You will be given end-to-end responsibility for larger, highly technical and more complex 'modules' within a project, and begin to develop specialized knowledge to help you solve clients' problems. You will start to take on team lead responsibilities and demonstrate intellectual leadership Together with our clients, you will develop superior digital and technology concepts and architecture solutions as well as support technical implementations actively and on site, applying your sound technical know-how, your understanding of business contexts, and your analytical and conceptual 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. Finally as a Lead IT Architect you will contribute to the Practice Area development and help to build the BCG brand as a key member of the case team. What You'll Bring 10 to 15 years of experience in IT architecture with a strong focus on CRM solutions, in consulting, working with clients in the consumer goods, industrial goods or retail sectors. Demonstrated experience with CRM platforms such as Salesforce, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, or Oracle working across sales, service and marketing. Proven expertise in delivering complex CRM integrations with external systems (Data Lakes, ERP, analytical platforms, and messaging systems) Experience with commerce platforms (such as Salesforce commerce cloud, Adobe commerce, etc ) and integration platforms (such as Mulesoft, Dell Boomi, etc) Have experience with, and understand how to lead, legacy integration and remediation (facades, strangler approaches, et. al.) Overview of in modern architecture patterns: CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native development, and API-led integrations. Deep understanding of: Different integration patterns and best practices such as events, synchronous vs. asynchronous E2E business processes: Lead-to-Quote, Quote-to-Cash, Service Management, Marketing, etc. Analytical mindset and excellent problem-solving skills. Experience of managing teams. Strong communication skills for stakeholder engagement at all levels Ability to work under pressure and willingness to travel to clients world-wide Strong communication and presentation skills. University degree with above-average academic performance in a mathematical-scientific field, information technology, or business administration. Additional info 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.
