AI Tech Consultant - São Paulo | BCG Platinion

Boston Consulting Group (BCG); São Paulo; On-site; BRL 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is seeking an AI Tech Consultant based in São Paulo, Brazil. You’ll work with client leadership to define IT strategies, architecture and digital platforms, applying AI, cloud, and modern tech to transform business outcomes.

You’ll lead parts of projects, coach client tech teams, manage risk, and contribute to proposals and new business opportunities while advancing BCG’s digital transformation agenda.

Qualifications

• University degree with above average academic performance in information technology or computer science.
• 3+ years of consulting, implementation, assessment or migration of ERP and Core Systems.
• Experience with ERP systems configuration, integration, and migration, including SAP S/4HANA.

Responsibilities

• Define IT strategies and architecture for clients to enable digital transformation.
• Deploy IT platforms and architectures using state-of-the-art tools (cloud, AI, blockchain, microservices, containerization).
• Lead parts of projects, coach client technology teams, manage quality and risk, and manage client expectations.

Skills

ERP & Core Systems

SAP S/4HANA

Cloud computing

AI/ ML

Digital transformation

Leadership

English fluency

Spanish language

Education

University degree in IT or Computer Science

Job description

Who We Are

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.

About BCG Platinion

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.

Practice Area

BCG Platinion launched in Germany in 2000 to add deep technical expertise to the Boston Consulting Group’s existing capabilities. Today, our presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. Our New York-based North American team began in 2014 and in 2017 acquired MAYA Design, a Pittsburgh-based digital design and innovation lab, to grow our capabilities around technology and design.

We support our clients’ total digital transformation through technology, design, cybersecurity, and risk management & financial engineering capabilities. And together with BCG, BCG Platinion’s interdisciplinary team of technical experts enable customized technical solutions and accelerate delivery value through new business platforms, application consolidations, and major system implementations.

What You’ll Do

As an AI Tech Consultant, you will work closely with our client’s leadership teams to understand their key challenges, define IT strategies, win buy-in for your recommendations and collaborate with BCG case team members to transform client potential into performance.

You will deploy customized IT strategies, digital platforms and architecture in order to leverage the digital potential of our customers with state of the art tools such as cloud computing, AI, blockchain, microservices and containerization. You will be responsible for specific parts of the project and will evaluate and coach our clients’ technology teams, manage quality and risk while maintaining client expectations and escalations. You’ll develop ground-breaking projects by enabling our clients to effectively use agile methods and modern approaches in the context of strategic IT implementation.

You will work on a variety of technology topics, applying your technical consulting skills to strategic technology questions. You will also be supported by an extensive training curriculum, plus technology-specific training and mentoring to help build upon your technical skills. You will also help with project proposals, client care, building relationships with peers and identifying new business opportunities.

Finally, as an AI Tech Consultant you will contribute to the Practice Area development and help to build the BCG brand as a key member of the case team.

What You’ll Bring

We’re looking for exceptional talent with experience of working in the consulting industry to join us.

You Will Typically Have

• University degree with above average academic performance in information technology, or computer science.
• 3+ years’ experience in consulting, implementation, assessment or migration of ERP & Core Systems, technical project management, digital delivery or technology consulting related with ERPs and Core Systems.
• Deep understanding and experience within ERP systems
• Experience in ERP & core systems configuration projects: implementation, migration, and integration, especially SAP S/4HANA.
• Ability to bring unique tech perspectives from outside the consulting industry into BCG's typical engagements, requiring:
• Consulting experience (required)
• Strategic mindset (hypothesis driven, 80:20 mindset, iterative approach, activist stance) Self-managed.
• Leadership potential to transform the consulting industry around interaction with designers, engineers, and POs: Progressing thought leadership in deep tech
• New (but proven) methodologies or ways of working
• Ability to balance dogmatism and pragmatism to guide decision-making. Articulate trade-offs and drive high-impact technology decisions on topics including (but not limited to) architecture, integration, lean core, edge solutions, best of breed and tailor‑made solutions.
• Right balance between functional and technical trade‑off and experiences in data migration, cutover and PMO.
• Deep understanding of different integration patterns and best practices such as events, synchronous vs. asynchronous, Data integration, etc.
• Fluent English (required)
• Fluent Spanish is a plus.

Who You’ll Work With

• BCG Managing Directors and Partners (MDP’s)
• PLA Managing Directors (MD’s)
• BCG Consultants at all levels
• PLA Consultants at all levels
• Clients, vendors, partners

YOU’LL BE BASED IN

São Paulo, Brazil.

YOU’LL BE TRAVELING

At BCG Platinion you will have the opportunity to travel around the globe 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.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

The Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law.

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.

BCG is an E - Verify Employer.