Global IT Executive Director - Functional Product Engineering

Global IT Executive Director - Functional Product Engineering London, England

Boston Consulting Group
Full Time London, England 10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description

WHAT YOU'LL DO


We are seeking to hire an experienced IT Functional Product Engineering leader who thrives in a complex, growing global organization, is motivated to drive business impact through innovative digital products and is known for attracting and developing strong engineering teams.
You will partner closely with the leaders of our respective business functions (Consulting People team, MDP People Team, BST People Team, Recruiting, Marketing, Client Team, Legal, and IT) and their respective agile product group leads to align digital strategies and deliver our quarterly digital outcomes. Some of your top priorities will include co-leading defining our functional GenAI efforts, co-leading our digital recruiting initiative, optimizing our lead-to-cash solution (ClientView), rethinking our approach to our Consulting performance management solution, and implementing your share of our Cloud transformation initiative.

You will lead the ~275 IT resources associated with 6 agile product portfolio teams. The 6 teams include HR (Consulting and BST related), Partner Services, Marketing, Client Team, Legal, and IT/Business Platforms. In addition, you will own co-leading our Recruiting digital transformation initiative as well as M&A integrations when necessary. You are seen as a strong people leader responsible for your team’s growth, upskilling our technical teams, and ongoing technical advancement.

You will be a key member of our IT Leadership team and work closely with your peers to deliver on our new 3-year digital strategy that will accelerate our ability to deliver meaningful and innovative outcomes to BCG.


YOU'RE GOOD AT


  • You are experienced at driving technical change across a diverse group of senior business stakeholders to understand business problems and surface digital solutions to address those problems. You can think strategically and are experienced in delivering business impact in a large complex global decentralized organization.
  • You have superior interpersonal skills that drive impact and influence in a heavily matrixed environment.
  • You have demonstrated technical leadership experience; you continuously pursue smaller-scale changes — and then weave them together to drive technical advancement and outcomes for competitive advantage.
  • You have a proven teaming mindset and track record.
  • You have exceptional experience in using cloud-based technology and modern digital architecture practices to create digital end-to-end (e2e) processes to drive scale.
  • You excel at working in an Agile model, promoting outcomes over output.
  • You have experience with driving digital transformation and can partner effectively with functional teams to deliver complex digital transformation programs.
  • You can lead/manage (both direct & indirect staff), guide and develop a matrixed engineer cohort and solutions architecture staff under the right engineering operating model (people, process and tools); you have expertise in a multicultural, distributed team model located in different time zones.
  • You understand the landscape of technology (both existing and emerging) to provide the optimal customer experience to interact with digital products and platforms which increases engineering efficiency driving digital product optimization.
  • You have a strong sense of urgency to ensure commitment and accountability is clear and a strong desire to ensure commitments are met weekly and outcomes delivered.


YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)


Minimum of 15+ years of experience in supporting functional areas in HR, Marketing, Sales, Legal and IT driving leading edge technical products and delivery excellence leveraging agile ways of working and modern secure engineering practices. Key areas include:

  • Strong understanding of business processes and systems, coupled with deep technical knowledge in functionally-aligned SaaS solutions: Workday, Saba, Microsoft Dynamics, ServiceNow, Marketo, PowerBI, iCIMS, EightFold along with several custom-built solutions.
  • Experience driving large-scale digital transformation initiatives in a complex global environment.
  • Expertise with modern engineering cloud-based practices including CI/CD tools, APIs and native cloud development tools.
  • Strong relationship management skills with the ability to influence technology vision/decisions at senior stakeholder level and across a global organization.
  • Demonstrated ability to work/manage both Engineering and broader IT teams (direct/indirect) across a global IT organization.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills
  • Ability to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.


YOU'LL WORK WITH


You will work and collaborate with the Global CIO, Functional Managing Directors and Partners (MDPs), Functionally aligned Tribe Leaders, Global IT Leadership Team, Digital Product Owners and Engineers, and Enterprise Architecture as well the broader IT organization to drive, design and influence our digital transformation journey.

Global IT Executive Director - Functional Product Engineering
Boston Consulting Group

https://on.bcg.com/glassdoor?
Boston, United States
Christoph Schweizer
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Private
Business Consulting
1963
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