BCG Platinion | Lead AI Tech Architect

Lead AI Tech Architects At BCG PlatinionLocations: Atlanta | Austin | Boston | Brooklyn | Chicago | Dallas | Denver | Detroit | Durham | Houston | Miami | Minneapolis | Nashville | New York | Philadelphia | Pittsburgh | Summit | WashingtonWho We AreBoston 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.About BCG PlatinionBCG 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.What You'll DoLead AI Tech Architects at BCG Platinion are:Collaborative. They are interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and establish relationships ranging from cross-functional stakeholder groups to existing teams.Technical experts. They are critical thinkers and have extensive IT expertise that drives novel solutions routed in complexity.Comfortable with ambiguity. They know the path forward isn't always well-defined. They are comfortable and confident working through the unknown.Change agents. They know how to make change happen across an organization. They can align and onboard teams to implement new processes and toolsets. They embrace complex challenges and guide an organization to optimize IT best practices.Agile advocates. They are well-versed in agile methodologies and use their expertise to strategically tackle difficult challenges and implement change.Innovative. They are creative thinkers who apply their deep IT architecture expertise to envision novel design patterns for the next generation of technology solutions.Knowledgeable. They have a sophisticated understanding of IT Architecture, acting as a viable resource on teams as both a hands-on practitioner and subject matter expert.Strategic partners. They work closely with senior client stakeholders, including C-level executives, to build hypothesis-driven solutions at the intersection of technology and business. They bridge the gap between IT and business functions, ensuring technology strategies are aligned with organizational goals to solve critical business challenges.What You Are Good AtIT Architecture and Solution DesignDesigning solution, application, and data architecture.Developing feasibility studies, technical concepts, executing technical proofs of concept, and scaling software solutions.Performing technology assessments and implementing IT architectures.Analyzing complex IT application landscapes and status quo for IT architecture optimization.Reviewing technical architecture and code.IT Optimization and TransformationSupporting IT functions during mergers and acquisitions, including the functional and technical transformation of an organization's IT department.Restructuring IT processes and organization.Optimizing the application development processes.Implementation Management and SupportDesigning work packages/modules in IT implementation projects.Evaluating products, SW packages, and solutions, including comparative studies across organizations' systems (e.g., ERPs, HR systems, Data Analytics).Assessing quality assurance for IT implementation.Communication and CollaborationCrafting compelling narratives, translating complex ideas for both technical and non-technical audiences.Delivering impactful presentations, leading modules, presenting findings, and building consensus with clients.Building collaboration, mentoring teams, and sharing knowledge to drive collective success.Facilitating technical and strategic working sessions and workshops with both client and internal teams.Providing direction on key work items and feedback to other team members.Team ManagementManage junior team members by defining and organizing their "module", helping them structure their work and associated analyses.Mentor and coach junior team members by building mutual development agreements and manufacturing opportunities for them to grow and develop along explicitly defined objectives.Provide quality assurance oversight - Review junior team members' output for overall correctness, level of insight, clarity, etc.Promote an overall positive experience for junior staff.Serve as a role model by actively demonstrating and living BCG's Culture and Values.Innovation and GrowthDriving innovation, uncovering novel ideas and transformative solutions.Fostering a growth mindset, continuously learning and applying new skills to grow your impact.Building relationships with key clients.Assisting with business development through writing proposals and scoping projects.What You'll BringBachelor'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. At times, this role involves significant travel to client sites. The amount of travel will depend on client needs and nature of projects.Additional infoWhat We Offer:At BCG, we care about our people, and offer best in class benefits to support you personally and professionally including:An opportunity to work organically across disciplines and across BCG, we offer 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 with a mission to deliver innovative and valuable digital solutions in a supportive environment.For U.S. Applicants:The first year base compensation for this role is $190,000 in USD. In addition to your base salary,