Global IT Enterprise Architect Senior Manager in London

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 is looking for a Senior Manager level Enterprise Architect to pioneer the way forward on the use of GenAI across BCG. The heart of this role is to define the architectures(s) to support leading edge use of GenAI in our consulting, to deliver world class insights and impact to our clients, and new ways of working within our internal support teams. You will be an expert in GenAI and AI with experience of consulting and knowledge management. You will be great at working with consulting and knowledge teams and an amazing collaborator, finding new ways of working using GenAI.

You will know how to design, scale and run solutions at scale for a global company with extensive experience of architecting solutions using modern paradigms including cloud, containers, API and AI development.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

• Finding great answers to complex and ambiguous questions and connecting and collaborating across teams to develop enterprise, platform and solution architectures.
• Seeking diverse views, and with a growth mindset consider both conventional and unconventional answers.
• Being high energy, able to match the fast‑changing tech landscape and business priorities.
• Rolling up your sleeves and “doing”, pioneering the way forward and bringing others along with you.
• Producing high‑quality Enterprise Architecture arguments and supporting materials.
• Aligning these at different levels in the organization.
• Being a brilliant storyteller and amazing at PowerPoint.
• Presenting to stakeholders.
• Influencing and collaborating with others, especially solution architects and technical leaders across the organization.
• Having a passion for technology and being highly knowledgeable and conversant with modern computing paradigms.
• Demonstrating expertise in modern digital thinking including GenAI, AI, data architecture, domain driven design, API, microservices, cloud, cloud security and identity services on cloud.
• Optimizing your own role and delivering results.

You understand that architecture is part of a value stream where we need to play our part in being efficient to help increase velocity and reduce risk across the architecture team and the teams we work with.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of experience leading architecture work.
• Ideally a blend of experience in development, solution and enterprise architecture with multiple years’ experience of AI and real‑world experience of the latest GenAI technologies.
• Deep knowledge of AI and GenAI.
• Multiple successful experiences of leading the development of AI or GenAI driven solutions.
• Preparing materials for, and presenting at senior levels.
• Leading the development of business cases and then landing agreeing at C‑suite investment boards with minimal supervision.
• Highly effective at influencing in a highly matrixed organization.
• Expert knowledge of consulting, likely having been a consultant in your past.

Who You’ll Work With

You will be reporting to the BCG IT Executive Director for Enterprise Architecture and work in the central Enterprise Architecture team. You will be working very closely with our knowledge team. This is an individual contributor role and will be expected to develop strong and influential relationships to all the architects working in AI and GenAI across all of BCG including our leading edge GenAI development teams in BCG X.

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.

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