About the Role
BCG Platinion is seeking AI Tech Architects to lead and collaborate on complex digital transformation projects, driving innovation and delivering business value through technology.
Responsibilities
- Lead AI Tech Architects are collaborative, interdisciplinary team players.
- Act as technical experts with extensive IT expertise to drive novel solutions.
- Work comfortably with ambiguity and guide organizations through the unknown.
- Serve as change agents, aligning teams to implement new processes and toolsets.
- Advocate for agile methodologies to tackle challenges and implement change.
- Apply deep IT architecture expertise to envision novel technology solutions.
- Act as a subject matter expert and hands-on practitioner in IT Architecture.
- Partner with senior client stakeholders to build solutions at the intersection of technology and business.
- Design solution, application, and data architecture.
- Develop feasibility studies, technical concepts, and execute proofs of concept.
- Perform technology assessments and implement IT architectures.
- Analyze complex IT application landscapes for optimization.
- Review technical architecture and code.
- Support IT functions during mergers and acquisitions.
- Restructure IT processes and organization.
- Optimize application development processes.
- Design work packages/modules in IT implementation projects.
- Evaluate products, SW packages, and solutions.
- Assess quality assurance for IT implementation.
- Craft compelling narratives and translate complex ideas for diverse audiences.
- Deliver impactful presentations and build consensus with clients.
- Build collaboration, mentor teams, and share knowledge.
- Facilitate technical and strategic working sessions and workshops.
- Provide direction on key work items and feedback to team members.
- Manage junior team members by defining and organizing their work.
- Mentor and coach junior team members.
- Provide quality assurance oversight for junior team members' output.
- Promote a positive experience for junior staff.
- Serve as a role model demonstrating BCG’s Culture and Values.
- Drive innovation and uncover novel ideas and transformative solutions.
- Foster a growth mindset and continuously learn new skills.
- Build relationships with key clients.
- Assist with business development through writing proposals and scoping projects.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, business administration, computer science, information systems, or system controls & engineering or a related field (Master’s degree is a plus).
- 6+ years of technology consulting or software engineering experience with more than 3+ years in architecture discipline.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to act as a trusted advisor and influence clients and BCG case leadership teams.
- Outstanding ability to work creatively, autonomously, analytically, in a fast-paced problem-solving environment with a focus on customer and results.
- Superior technical knowledge, engineering rigor, and creative problem-solving.
- Ability to explain complex technology topics to senior executives.
- Extensive technical expertise and knowledge along multiple of the following topics: Cloud technologies, architectures, designing cloud workloads and optimizing cloud footprint (i.e., FinOps); Integration methodologies, design patterns and associated tooling (API and Microservices architecture); Structured and unstructured databases and usage patterns; Data platform architecture and associated patterns (e.g. Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Lakehouse, etc.); Data analytics, AI and GenAI architecture; Application modernization, programming paradigms and approaches (e.g. object-oriented); Mainframe architecture; Process automation approaches and tooling (e.g. DevOps, AIOps).
- An agile mindset that moves past blockers and a vision to iteratively migrate to the modern set of architecture capabilities with a lens of business benefits/value.
- Gen AI tool fluency (e.g., proven usage of GenAI such as ChatGPT, Claude) and validation of response.
- Willingness to travel to work with clients and BCG teams.
Skills
- IT Architecture and Solution Design
- IT Optimization and Transformation
- Implementation Management and Support
- Communication and Collaboration
- Team Management
- Innovation and Growth
- Cloud technologies
- Integration methodologies
- API and Microservices architecture
- Databases
- Data platform architecture
- Data analytics
- AI and GenAI architecture
- Application modernization
- Mainframe architecture
- Process automation
- DevOps
- AIOps
- Agile methodologies
- Gen AI tool fluency
Location
- Atlanta
- Austin
- Boston
- Brooklyn
- Chicago
- Dallas
- Denver
- Detroit
- Durham
- Houston
- Miami
- Minneapolis
- Nashville
- New York
- Philadelphia
- Pittsburgh
- Summit
- Washington
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 6+ years of technology consulting or software engineering experience
- 3+ years in architecture discipline
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, business administration, computer science, information systems, or system controls & engineering or a related field
- Master’s degree is a plus
Salary/Compensations
- $190,000
Benefits
- An opportunity to work organically across disciplines and across BCG.
- A unified and unrivaled opportunity that combines strategic thinking with hands-on applications.
- A unique experience to work alongside a team of passionate and driven problem-solvers.
- Best in class benefits to support you personally and professionally.
- Zero-dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children.
- $10(USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs.
- Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 (USD) in orthodontia benefits.
- Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually.
- Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities.
- Fully vested retirement contributions made annually.
- Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, and annual office closure between Christmas and New Years.
- Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement.
About the Company
- Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities.
- BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963.
- Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.
- To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities.
- Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change.
- BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose.
- We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.
- BCG Platinion's presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America.
- We achieve digital excellence for clients with sustained solutions to the most complex and time-sensitive challenge.
- We guide clients into the future to push the status quo, overcome tech limitations, and enable our clients to go further in their digital journeys than what has ever been possible in the past.
- At BCG Platinion, we deliver business value through the innovative use of technology at a rapid pace.
- We roll up our sleeves to transform business, revolutionize approaches, satisfy customers, and change the game through Architecture, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Application and Risk functions.
- We balance vision with a pragmatic path to change transforming strategies into leading-edge tech platforms, at scale.
Equal Opportunity
- Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
- BCG is an E - Verify Employer.
