Senior It Architect - Salesforce/crm - London | Bcg Platinion

BCG BCG · Consulting · London, United Kingdom · Technology and Engineering

This role is for a Senior IT Architect focused on CRM and Enterprise Solutions at BCG Platinion. The architect will advise clients on technology strategies, focusing on CRM architectures, and lead large-scale digital transformation projects. Responsibilities include developing CRM strategies, evaluating and integrating CRM/Commerce solutions with other enterprise systems (ERP, data platforms, analytics tools), and defining technology roadmaps. The role requires extensive experience in IT architecture with a strong focus on CRM, consulting experience, and expertise in integrating CRM with external systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop comprehensive CRM strategies that align with enterprise goals and deliver value across marketing, sales, service, and customer experience functions.
  2. Evaluate, compare, and integrate CRM and Commerce solutions from leading platforms (Salesforce, Microsoft, Oracle, etc.) based on client needs.
  3. Design robust architectures that integrate CRM and commerce solutions with ERP systems, data platforms, analytics tools (Tableau, Power BI), and external systems.
  4. Lead large-scale digital transformation projects, ensuring alignment of CRM solutions with ERP, data lakes, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD frameworks.
  5. Work with C-level stakeholders to define CRM technology roadmaps, manage build-vs-buy decisions, and ensure seamless integration across systems

Skills

Required

  • 5 to 10 years of experience in IT architecture with a strong focus on CRM solutions
  • consulting experience
  • 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)
  • 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