Principal, Platinion

BCG BCG · Consulting · Casablanca, Morocco · Technology and Engineering

This role is for a Principal at BCG Platinion, focusing on helping clients unlock their digital potential and drive transformation. The Principal will work with client leadership teams to define IT strategies, deploy customized IT strategies, digital platforms, and architectures using modern tools like cloud computing, AI, blockchain, microservices, and containerization. Responsibilities include evaluating and coaching client technology teams, managing quality and risk, developing IT strategies and solutions, managing diverse teams, and contributing to practice area development. The role requires significant experience in IT strategy and consulting, with a strong analytical and problem-solving approach.

What you'd actually do

  1. As a Principal, 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 lead fellow BCG case team members to transform client potential into performance with high-impact assignments.
  2. 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.
  3. You will evaluate and coach our clients' technology teams, manage quality and risk while maintaining client expectations and escalations.
  4. Besides the functional guidance of the project team you will also be operationally responsible for the execution and management of the solution.
  5. Together with our clients you will develop convincing IT strategies, concepts and solutions that have a lasting impact on the organization, operating model, digital, and/or data landscape.

Skills

Required

  • IT Strategy and consulting
  • professional software development
  • IT project management
  • leading the design and management of IT implementation and strategy projects
  • strategic thinker
  • entrepreneurial
  • work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
  • Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills
  • strong customer focus
  • mental agility
  • results orientation
  • management of decision process at C-Level
  • Deep expertise with modern tool-sets in Agile environments
  • legacy modernization
  • modern approaches to technology
  • drive operational and client service excellence
  • presenting project results to C-Level
  • organization of workshops at peer level
  • facilitating in client meetings
  • IT Modernization
  • Solution & Enterprise Architecture
  • Marketing, Sales & Service Platforms (CRM)
  • Physical & Digital Channels (Including Mobile)
  • ERP (SAP) &Manufacturing Platforms
  • Banking & Insurance Platforms
  • People, HR, Collaboration Platforms
  • Applied Intelligence, Machine Learning, RPA, Chatbots, Blockchain, IOT
  • DevOps & Bimodal IT
  • Data Analytics, Big Data, Data Platforms
  • Cyber Security
  • Strong business acumen
  • frame complex problems in appropriate business contexts
  • University degree with above average academic performance in a STEM related field or business management
  • Fluent in English
  • Fluent in French

Nice to have

  • Industrial Goods
  • Insurance
  • Healthcare
  • Financial Institutions
  • Private Insurance
  • Private Equity
  • Energy
  • Consumer Products
  • Public Sector

What the JD emphasized

  • At least 12 years of experience in IT Strategy and consulting, professional software development or IT project management
  • You will have relevant experience from a top consulting firm (focused on technology, digital initiatives) and have led the design and management of IT implementation and strategy projects