Lead AI Tech Architect - São Paulo | BCG Platinion

Boston Consulting Group; Rio de Janeiro; On-site; BRL 420,000 - 620,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Consulting Group seeks a Lead AI Tech Architect in Brazil to turn AI potential into scalable, production-ready solutions. You will collaborate with client tech leaders and BC teams to define AI strategies and design architectures that enable meaningful change.

Based in São Paulo, you will guide architecture decisions, ensure security and resilience, and drive complex technology programs across multi-disciplinary teams worldwide.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in technology architecture, software engineering, digital delivery, or technology consulting.
• Experience leading architecture projects involving agentic processes or PDLC.
• Deep technical expertise across cloud architecture, distributed systems and microservices.
• Hands-on with agent orchestration frameworks and multi-agent design patterns.
• Knowledge of guardrails, observability, and human-in-the-loop oversight.
• Proficiency with AWS Bedrock/SageMaker, Azure AI Foundry/OpenAI Service, Google Vertex AI, Docker, Kubernetes, and IaC.
• Programming skills in Python, Java, or TypeScript/Node.js.
• Fluent English; Spanish is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture of production-grade AI and agentic solutions, from initial design through implementation.
• Design agentic architectures incorporating orchestration, tool use, context and memory, guardrails, observability, and human oversight.
• Advise clients on architecture choices, technology trade-offs, integration patterns, scalability, security, resilience, and operational requirements.
• Lead complex technology architecture workstreams, translating business needs into clear architecture decisions, roadmaps, and implementation approaches.
• Guide initiatives involving agentic processes and agentic PDLC, drawing on experience leading comparable technology programs.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, platforms, and architectural patterns for client contexts.
• Provide technical direction to multidisciplinary teams while contributing hands-on to validate designs.
• Partner with client tech leaders and BC colleagues to communicate recommendations and secure successful implementation.

Skills

Technology architecture

Software engineering

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems

Microservices

APIs & integration

Agent orchestration

LangGraph

LangChain

Kubernetes

Docker

IaC (infrastructure as code)

Python/Java/TypeScript

English

Spanish (plus)

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

AutoGen

CrewAI

Semantic Kernel

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS Bedrock/SageMaker

Azure OpenAI Service

Google Vertex AI

LangSmith

Arize

Langfuse

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 acquiredMAYA 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 a BCG Platinion Lead AI Tech Architect, you will help clients turn the potential of AI into scalable, production-ready technology solutions. You will work closely with client technology leaders and BCG teams to understand complex business and technology challenges, define AI and technology strategies, and design architectures that enable meaningful change.

You will provide technical direction and architecture leadership across complex AI initiatives, with particular focus on agentic processes and agentic product development lifecycles (PDLC). Drawing on deep architecture expertise and a strong understanding of hands‑on implementation, you will guide teams through critical technology decisions and, when needed, provide hands‑on support to validate approaches, solve complex technical challenges, or accelerate delivery.

• Lead the architecture of production-grade AI and agentic solutions, from initial design through implementation.
• Design agentic architectures incorporating orchestration, tool use, context and memory, guardrails, observability, and human oversight.
• Advise clients on architecture choices, technology trade-offs, integration patterns, scalability, security, resilience, and operational requirements.
• Lead complex technology architecture workstreams, translating business needs into clear architecture decisions, roadmaps, and implementation approaches.
• Guide initiatives involving agentic processes and agentic PDLC, drawing on experience leading comparable technology programs.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, platforms, and architectural patterns and determine their suitability for specific client contexts.
• Provide technical direction to multidisciplinary teams while contributing with hands‑on expertise when needed to validate designs or resolve complex challenges.
• Partner with client technology leaders and BCG colleagues to communicate architecture recommendations, build alignment, and support successful implementation.

What You'll Bring

• 10+ years of experience in technology architecture, software engineering, digital delivery, or technology consulting.
• Proven experience leading and/or designing complex architecture projects involving agentic processes and/or agentic product development lifecycles (PDLC).
• Deep technical expertise across cloud architecture, distributed systems and microservices, APIs and integration, and modern software engineering – including platform engineering concepts.
• Hands-on experience with agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel) and multi-agent design patterns, including tool use, RAG, and context/memory management.
• Experience designing guardrails, evaluation frameworks, and human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic systems, along with familiarity with LLM observability and tracing tools (e.g., LangSmith, Arize, Langfuse).
• Strong knowledge of production architecture considerations, including security, resilience, observability, scalability, and architecture governance.
• Expertise with major cloud AI/ML platforms (AWS Bedrock/SageMaker, Azure AI Foundry/OpenAI Service, Google Vertex AI), containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code.
• Hands-on technical foundations – including proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Python, Java, TypeScript/Node.js etc.) – that enable you to challenge designs, guide engineering teams, and contribute directly when needed.
• Ability to navigate complex technology trade-offs and communicate architecture recommendations effectively to senior technical and business audiences.
• Fluent English; Spanish is a plus.

Who You'll Work With

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

Additional info

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.

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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