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

Locations: Atlanta | Austin | Boston | Brooklyn | Chicago | Dallas | Denver | Detroit | Durham | Houston | Miami | Minneapolis | Nashville | New York | Philadelphia | Pittsburgh | Summit | Washington

About the role

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.

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. Ideal candidate requirements given client and contract/portfolio requirements include 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.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on interdisciplinary teams of designers, engineers, researchers, technical experts, and consultants to develop leading IT concepts and architectural solutions.
• Apply technical know-how, understanding of business contexts, and analytical skills to enable organizations to technically transform.
• Design solution, application, and data architecture.
• Develop feasibility studies, technical concepts, execute technical proofs of concept, and scale software solutions.
• Perform technology assessments and implement IT architectures.
• Analyze complex IT application landscapes and status quo for IT architecture optimization.
• Review technical architecture and code.
• Support IT functions during mergers and acquisitions, including the functional and technical transformation of an organization’s IT department.
• Restructure IT processes and organization.
• Optimize the application development processes.
• Design work packages/modules in IT implementation projects.
• Evaluate products, SW packages, and solutions, including comparative studies across organizations’ systems (e.g., ERPs, HR systems, Data Analytics).
• Assess quality assurance for IT implementation.
• Craft compelling narratives, translating complex ideas for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Deliver impactful presentations, lead modules, present findings, and build consensus with clients.
• Build collaboration, mentor teams, and share knowledge to drive collective success.
• Drive innovation, uncover novel ideas, and transformative solutions.
• Foster a growth mindset, continuously learn, and apply new skills to grow your impact.
• Assist with business development through writing proposals and scoping projects.

Requirements

• 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.
• Extensive technical expertise and knowledge of:
  • 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.
• An agile mindset that moves past blockers and a vision to iteratively migrate to the next/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.

Skills

• Technical Expertise: Critical thinkers with extensive IT expertise that drives novel solutions routed in complexity.
• Comfort with Ambiguity: Comfortable and confident working through the unknown.
• Change Agents: Know how to make change happen across an organization, aligning and onboarding teams to implement new processes and toolsets.
• Agile Advocates: Well-versed in agile methodologies and use their expertise to strategically tackle difficult challenges and implement change.
• Collaborative: Interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and establish relationships ranging from cross-functional stakeholder groups to existing teams.
• Innovative: Creative thinkers who apply deep IT architecture expertise to envision novel design patterns for the next generation of technology solutions.
• Knowledgeable: Sophisticated understanding of IT Architecture, acting as a viable resource on teams as both a hands-on practitioner and subject matter expert.

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, combining 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.
• 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 Year's.
• 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.