Capital Markets AI Tech Architect — Lead & Innovate

Boston Consulting Group; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

BCG Platinion in Amsterdam is seeking a Senior AI Tech Architect (Capital Markets) to bridge strategy and technology. You will define technology strategies, architecture solutions, and lead on-site delivery with clients in financial services.

You will own a project module over time, grow through training, and contribute to capital markets practice while leveraging microservices, cloud platforms, and event-driven systems to deliver scalable, secure architectures.

Qualifications

• 4–10 years of IT Architecture experience in consulting, finance, or banking.
• Hands-on with trading platforms and systems (Nasdaw, Calypso, Murex, Bloomberg).
• Knowledge of trade and settlement tech (FIX, SWIFT, FpML) across asset classes.
• Designing and implementing enterprise-grade architectures.
• Familiarity with microservices, containers, and event-driven messaging.
• Cloud platforms experience for high-frequency trading and data processing.
• University degree in CS/IT/Engineering; English fluent; Dutch desirable.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and coach clients' technology teams; define technology strategies.
• Design architecture solutions and help with on-site client implementations.
• Develop and grow by tackling new, complex challenges daily.
• Own delivery for a project module; develop technical concepts for that module.
• Contribute to Capital Markets practice area development and BCg brand.

Skills

IT Architecture

Trading platforms knowledge

Microservices & Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Event-driven messaging

Financial services domain

English fluency

Dutch language desirable

Education

University degree in computer science / IT / engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Nasdaw / Nasdaq (trading platforms)

Job description

BCG Platinion in Amsterdam is seeking a Senior AI Tech Architect (Capital Markets) to bridge strategy and technology. You will define technology strategies, architecture solutions, and lead on-site delivery with clients in financial services.

You will own a project module over time, grow through training, and contribute to capital markets practice while leveraging microservices, cloud platforms, and event-driven systems to deliver scalable, secure architectures.