Architect - McKinsey Digital

In this role, you will drive the strategy, architecture, design, and implementation of technology initiatives across AWS, Azure, and GCP, delivering cutting-edge technology solutions.

You will define enterprise architecture, covering both cloud-native and hybrid solutions across leading cloud platforms. Your work involves designing and leading the implementation of scalable, highly available, and resilient services to ensure optimal performance and reliability. You will act as a bridge between stakeholders and technical teams, gathering requirements, creating architectural designs, and providing expert guidance. Additionally, you will lead application modernization efforts, re-architecting applications to optimize cloud performance and efficiency. You will define enterprise strategies for containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), serverless computing, and API management. Furthermore, you will architect secure and efficient cloud networking and connectivity solutions to support hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

You will direct clients on their technology modernization journey using cutting-edge technologies to assist in large-scale digital transformations, often helping to shape the client’s journey and upfront technical design decisions. You will have visibility at the highest level in an organization, working directly with CIO, CDO, and CEO, allowing you to make a real impact. You will look holistically at what is required to realize impact (e.g., tech, operating model, processes, people, change management, etc.). Serving clients across a wide variety of sectors, geographies, and industries, you will have the opportunity to broaden your knowledge within the technology sector and specialize in areas of particular interest. You will also have the chance to shape your own journey as you grow within a path developed for technologists. We offer opportunities to build your own learning path to grow and develop with the support of McKinsey & Company and its global tech community.

Given the diversity of our client work, we work with a variety of technologies. More than deep expertise in a particular technology, we are looking for colleagues with a broad technical background and proven ability to quickly learn new technologies. You’ll be able to shape your own learning journey/areas of interest. Typically, a client project involves one of the three major public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), use of a scripting language for automation (e.g., Python, NodeJS), Kubernetes-based container platform, a way to manage infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, Terraform, CDK, etc.) and CI/CD tooling and monitoring/logging platforms. In addition to these technologies we have developed a variety of technologies, including open source, to accelerate our client’s success (Iguazio, Kedro, CausalNex, etc.)

You’ll join McKinsey Digital in Japan. We bring together the best minds in business and technology to help our clients use cutting-edge technologies to transform their business.

As part of this team, you’ll typically work on projects across industries and business functions. You will work with other Architects and colleagues of different disciplines, including data scientists and engineers, designers, business strategists, etc. Within our diverse, inclusive and distinctive teams you will deliver our technology-enabled solutions of the future. In this role you will be a key part of driving AI transformations, building new business and modernizing core technology.

Professional & personal development and innovation are two big priorities for McKinsey Digital. You will have the freedom to try new ideas and experiment in your role and will be guaranteed significant dedicated time to continuously learn with the support of your team and global network.

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