Global IT Senior Director and Platform Team Lead - Gen AI Platforms and Agentic Development Kit in London

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BCG is building the next generation of AI-native platforms, enabling advanced reasoning systems, autonomous agents, and enterprise-scale GenAI capabilities. As a Platform Team Lead (PTL) Gen AI Platforms and Agent Development Kit, you will play a defining role in shaping the core intelligence layer that powers BCG AI solutions globally. This is a rare opportunity to lead at the forefront of AI platform engineering – architecting the systems, tools, and frameworks that hundreds of teams will rely on to innovate, scale, and deliver impact. You will set the strategy, lead high-performing engineering and platform squads, and bring to life a world-class AI platform that champions safety, performance, scale and responsible innovation/RAI.

As a PTL, you will drive innovation, collaborate across global teams, and shape the roadmaps that keep BCG at the absolute forefront of AI platforms, capabilities and best practices of building AI/Agentic solutions at scale. If you are energised by complex technical challenges, enterprise-scale transformation, and building platforms that change how organisations operate, this role offers unmatched scope and influence.

Among your responsibilities, you will:

• Lead the Strategy and Execution for BCG’s Core AI/Intelligence Layer
• Own and evolve the Gen (AI) platform vision and agentic systems, including LLM orchestration, contextual memory, and semantic knowledge layers.
• Shape the roadmap for the Platform AI/Agent Development Kit (ADK) – the core toolset powering developer and team adoption across BCG.
• Lead Gen (AI) platform engineering teams and operating model.
• Scale GenAI capabilities firm wide, across Core IT and business use cases.

Architecting Scalable, AI-Native Systems

• Design scalable, secure, AI first, cloud-native platform components that support advanced reasoning, long-term memory, and multimodal insights.
• Define AI solution archetypes for use cases teams to effectively use the platform capabilities with well defined, reusable accelerators, SDK and tool kits.
• Govern platform-wide design decisions to ensure safety, scalability, interoperability and implementation of responsible AI standards.
• Own cross-functional alignment with Data, Security, Capabilities Build, Infrastructure, and business stakeholders.

Build and Lead High-Performing Teams

• Lead engineering, architecture, and platform teams with a culture of excellence, innovation, and accountability.
• Coach and mentor senior talent; champion strong engineering practices and high-quality delivery.

Delivery & Operational Excellence

• Own end to end delivery of capabilities & components and services owned by the platform teams.
• Establish and run enterprise-grade AI observability frameworks to monitor performance, safety, and interpretability.
• Continuously enhance LLM Ops, Evaluation and Quality pipelines.
• Ensure robust AIOps/DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, and automated delivery pipelines.

What You’ll Bring

• Over 15 years of experience in engineering leadership, platform or product ownership, or technical programme delivery in large enterprise. At least 5 years in AI and Gen AI related experience.
• 3+ years as Senior Director or Equivalent in software/AI engineering or equivalent.
• Demonstrated success leading multi-disciplinary teams (engineering, product, architecture, data).
• Evidence of innovation in building/operationalising AI/GenAI or emerging technology platforms.

Technical Expertise

• Masters or Bachelor’s in AI/Computer Science & Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Proven success in architecting enterprise-scale AI platforms using modern AI native/cloud native stacks.
• Deep experience architecting, applying and deploying LLM-based systems, generative models, agent frameworks, and scalable AI/ML platforms.
• Mastery of enterprise cloud stacks (AWS/GCP/Azure), vector DBs, Knowledge Graphs, contextual memory, distributed systems, MLOps/LLMOps, and infrastructure automation.

YOUR TRAVEL

Mostly from the BCG office, occasionally work at other BCG offices.

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