Global IT Senior Director – Recruiting Products - The Boston Consulting Group

To realize our digital transformation, we need to transform our products, experiences, processes, technology and how we operate. Delivering our clients unrivalled experience of exceptional service, value and flexibility is part of our DNA. We are looking for people who are passionate about Digital Products Transformation and Agile ways of working and want to spread this approach within our teams and business processes. To execute this transformation, we need people who take the lead in defining standards and guardrails of working and developing expertise further within the teams.   
 
We are seeking a senior leader to bring our Digital Products vision to reality in partnership with BCG’s Recruiting team.  As a senior technology leader, you will act as a pioneer, thought leader, problem solver, and be sought out for your expertise by product teams, enabling them to go faster, safely, and prevent solutions that are hard to change and stifle innovation. You will be responsible for the technology roadmap and implementation of digital recruiting solutions that enable our recruitment teams to create the best candidate experience and drive towards the BCG goal of attracting the best talent in the market enabled via transformation of digital recruiting products. You will bring industry best practices to design and implement secure, performant and scalable solutions.   You will lead a group of engineers and architects embedded in the Digital Products team and be responsible for their growth, upskilling and ongoing development.   You will work closely with several technology teams to align to an enterprise vision for IT services across BCG’s internal business functions.    

• Partnering with the Recruiting Product Team Lead and Recruiting Transformation Program team to define roadmaps and priorities for the technology portfolio 

• Manage the end-to-end technical delivery across all phases/lifecycle of product/program roadmaps 

• Steering the recruiting transformation program, managing and delivering on the program plan in close collaboration with functional stakeholders, architects, development teams and PMO 

• Applying Agile software development methodologies and principles, including work estimation techniques, TDD, BDD etc. 

• Overseeing technical architecture, tooling, platforms & systems in coordination with Enterprise Architecture, and ensuring compliance with standards and guardrails 

• Working closely with key stakeholders to understand business problems and surfacing technology options to address those problems – including experimenting with emerging technologies 

• Coaching the team of engineers, technical specialists, and architects -- and introducing new technologies and practices as needed 

• Leading technical analysis of both packaged software solutions and custom-built applications 

• Advocating for release management and automation best practices  

• Ensuring proper root cause analysis and remediation is executed during any incidents or outages 

• Working with vendors to augment team capacity and knowledge