Overview
As Lead AI Tech Architect in BCG Platinion, you shape complex technology landscapes and connect architectural decisions to business outcomes. You’ll guide cross-functional teams to modernise products, scale SaaS and AI-enabled capabilities, and steer transformation roadmaps. Your work strengthens engineering effectiveness and aligns architecture with strategic goals. This role offers impact across global client projects and a chance to influence digital transformation at scale.
Responsibilities
- Diagnose product and technology landscapes to identify critical architectural decisions
- Define target architectures and transformation roadmaps aligned to business outcomes
- Lead end-to-end architecture modules and guide multidisciplinary teams
- Influence senior stakeholders across business, product, and engineering
- Contribute intellectual leadership in areas of distinctive technology expertise
- Advise on architecture governance, due diligence, and assurance of complex programmes
- Improve engineering effectiveness via platform engineering, DevSecOps, SRE, and automation
- Translate architecture recommendations into pragmatic roadmaps and investment cases
- Build networks across architecture, product, engineering, data and AI communities
Key requirements
- 10–15 years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technology consulting
- Significant TMT experience with deep expertise in at least one Product & Tech domain
- Strategic, hypothesis-driven problem-solving with technical depth
- Proven design and evolution of modern product, platform, and software architectures
- Understanding of AI-enabled and agentic architectures and data foundations
- Ability to communicate high-impact decisions across multiple domains
- Strong executive communication and storytelling skills
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and engaging senior stakeholders
- Commercial awareness and specialized expertise in a technology area
- University degree in a STEM-related field or business management; advanced degrees advantageous
- Executive communication
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Strategic thinking
- SaaS, cloud-native, API-led, modular, distributed and event-driven architectures
- Legacy modernization and replatforming
- AI-enabled and agentic architectures
Lead AI Tech Architect - TMT, Product & Tech - London | BCG Platinion employer: The Boston Consulting Group
At Boston Consulting Group, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters collaboration and innovation. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through continuous learning opportunities and a supportive environment where diverse perspectives are valued. Located in a vibrant city, BCG provides unique advantages such as access to industry leaders and the chance to work on transformative projects that make a real impact in the business world.
Contact Details:
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