BCG Platinion | Senior AI Tech Architect, Public Sector Industry Leader (Defense & Security, Civil Sector)

About the role

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.

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 challenges. 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.

Responsibilities

At BCG Platinion, we’re bringing design to the front line of business challenges, creating work that solves problems in novel, feasible, and desirable ways. Our team applies a discovery-driven approach in order to create innovative and exciting end-to-end experiences at the intersection of people and technology. As a Senior AI Tech Architect, you will collaborate on interdisciplinary teams of designers, engineers, researchers, technical experts, and consultants to develop leading IT concepts and architectural solutions.

In this role, you will apply your sound technical know-how, understanding of business contexts, and analytical skills to enable organizations to technically transform. NOTE: This role is specifically seeking a leader to serve primarily in the US Public Sector as part of BCG Platinion’s Architecture practice, but also open to commercial and private sector engagements where required.

Requirements

• US Citizenship, active security clearance or ability to obtain a security clearance (e.g. DoD Secret / Top Secret)
• Prior expertise with portfolio and project management of US federal government agencies in a technology consulting context is preferred

Qualifications

Sr AI Tech Architects at BCG Platinion are technical experts, critical thinkers, and have extensive IT expertise that drives novel solutions routed in complexity. They are comfortable with ambiguity, and know how to make change happen across an organization. They are agile advocates, collaborative, innovative, and knowledgeable.

• Bachelor's Degree in information technology, business administration, computer science, business management, or system controls & engineering or a related field
• Master's Degree in related fields not required but preferred
• 4+ years of professional experience in software engineering with more than 1 year in architecture discipline
• Superior technical knowledge, engineering rigor, and creative problem-solving
• Ability to explain complex technology topics to senior executives

Skills

• Various technology stacks
• Mainframe architecture (nice to have, but not must)
• Cloud native applications and cloud services architecture
• Omnichannel architecture
• Integration methodologies and tools
• API and Microservices architecture
• Structured and unstructured databases and usage patterns
• High-speed, high-volume, high-frequency transaction processing systems
• Real-time logging, monitoring and resiliency approaches
• Disaster recovery and business continuity planning
• Next gen capabilities (e.g. AI/ML, IoT, Blockchain) and component technologies
• Data analytics architecture (e.g. Data Lake)
• Programming paradigms and approaches (e.g. object-oriented)
• Process automation approaches and tooling (e.g. DevOps, AIOps)
• Experience in agile engineering and tooling support
• Gen AI tool fluency (e.g., proven usage of GenAI such as ChatGPT, Claude) and validation of response

Benefits

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.

• 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, whether you contribute or not
• 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

Pay

The first year base compensation for this role is $150,000 in USD. In addition to your base salary, you will also be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus and BCG’s Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution.

Schedule

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.