Senior AI Tech Architect for GenAI & Cloud Enterprise

Boston Consulting Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Consulting Group is seeking an AI Tech Architect/Senior AI Tech Architect to lead architecture design for AI, GenAI, data platforms, and cloud in Southeast Asia. You will bridge business strategy with technology, guiding transformation programs and shaping scalable enterprise solutions.

Bring 5–10 years of experience in technology or strategy consulting, mastery of AI architectures, and hands-on cloud skills. This role involves client-facing work and travel across the region.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of relevant professional experience, preferably in strategy, management, or technology consulting.
• Experience in technology/enterprise architecture, with depth in solution, data, cloud, or AI architecture.
• Strong understanding of AI and GenAI architectures and enterprise integration.
• GenAI tool fluency, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, or equivalents.
• Ability to travel across Southeast Asia.

Responsibilities

• Work cohesively with hybrid BCG/BCG Platinion teams on AI, data, digital, and broader technology transformation engagements.
• Advise clients on AI/GenAI architecture, data platforms, cloud architecture, application modernization, and enterprise technology transformation.
• Align business and technology strategies to create tangible business value.
• Assess current-state landscapes and define target-state architectures and roadmaps.
• Design solution, data, AI/GenAI, integration, and cloud architectures for complex environments.
• Develop architecture blueprints, feasibility studies, proofs of concept, and implementation approaches.
• Support production-grade, scalable AI solutions and mentor junior colleagues.

Skills

AI Architecture

GenAI Architectures

Cloud Architecture

Data Platform

Solution Architecture

APIs & Microservices

Enterprise Architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

Locations: Singapore | Malaysia | Thailand | Indonesia

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.

What You'll Do

What You'll Do

As a AI Tech Architect/ Senior AI Tech Architect, you will work with BCG and BCG Platinion case teams across Southeast Asia to help clients define, design, and deliver technology architectures that enable AI, GenAI, data, and broader digital transformation.

You will bring together business strategy, enterprise architecture, and deep technology expertise, working closely with senior client stakeholders to translate complex business challenges into pragmatic technology solutions and transformation roadmaps.

In this role, you will:

• Work cohesively with hybrid BCG/BCG Platinion teams on AI, data, digital, and broader technology transformation engagements.
• Advise clients across a range of industries on AI/GenAI architecture, data platforms, cloud architecture, application modernization, and enterprise technology transformation.
• Align business and technology strategies, helping clients understand where AI and emerging technologies can create tangible business value.
• Assess current-state application, data, cloud, integration, and AI landscapes and define target-state architectures and transformation roadmaps.
• Design solution, application, data, AI/GenAI, integration, and cloud architectures for complex enterprise environments.
• Develop technical concepts, architecture blueprints, feasibility assessments, proofs of concept, and implementation approaches.
• Design and assess enterprise GenAI solutions, including topics such as LLM integration, RAG, AI agents, orchestration, model/platform selection, AI infrastructure, security, and responsible AI considerations.
• Evaluate technology platforms, software solutions, cloud services, AI products, and vendors based on business and technical requirements.
• Review technical architectures, engineering approaches, and where appropriate code or implementation designs to ensure scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Support clients in moving from experimentation and proofs of concept to production-grade, scalable AI solutions.
• Analyse complex and high-risk technology environments and identify opportunities to optimize architecture, software delivery, and operating models.
• Facilitate workshops with business and technology leaders to identify requirements, evaluate architectural options, and build alignment around target solutions.
• Structure and lead modules/workstreams within technology transformation and implementation programs.
• Develop compelling recommendations and communicate complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Build relationships with senior client stakeholders, including CIOs, CTOs, CDOs and other executives.
• Contribute to BCG Platinion's thought leadership on AI, GenAI, enterprise architecture, and emerging technology trends.
• Support business development activities including proposal development, solution shaping, and project scoping.
• Mentor junior team members and contribute to the continued development of BCG Platinion's architecture capabilities in Southeast Asia.

What You'll Bring

What You'll Bring

• 5-10 years of relevant professional experience, preferably within a strategy, management, or technology consulting environment and/or a leading technology organization.
• Experience working in technology/enterprise architecture, with depth in one or more areas such as solution architecture, application architecture, data architecture, cloud architecture, or AI architecture.
• Strong understanding of modern AI and GenAI architectures, including how AI solutions integrate into broader enterprise technology landscapes.
• Experience designing or advising on AI/GenAI solutions such as:
  • Generative AI applications and platforms
  • Large Language Models and model integration
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation/RAG
  • Agentic AI and orchestration patterns
  • Vector databases and semantic search
  • AI/ML platforms and MLOps/LLMOps
  • AI APIs, microservices, and integration architectures
  • AI security, governance, monitoring, and responsible AI
• Good understanding of modern data platform architecture, including patterns such as Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, Lakehouses, structured/unstructured data, data pipelines, and analytics platforms.
• Experience with major cloud ecosystems such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and/or Google Cloud, including cloud-native architecture and deployment approaches.
• Understanding of integration methodologies and architecture patterns including APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
• Exposure to application modernization, software engineering principles, DevOps, CI/CD, containers, and modern application delivery practices.
• Ability to evaluate technology options and translate technical trade-offs into clear implications for business leaders.
• Experience performing technology assessments, architecture reviews, target-state design, and transformation roadmap development.
• Ability to move comfortably between strategic discussions and technical architecture detail.
• Strong analytical skills, structured problem solving, and ability to work in a hypothesis-driven consulting environment.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, client-facing, and consulting skills.
• Ability to communicate complex AI and technology concepts effectively to senior executives.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and confidence working across business, technology, engineering, data, and risk teams.
• Comfortable working through ambiguity and shaping solutions where requirements or technology choices are not yet fully defined.
• Broad interest in emerging digital/technology trends and their implications across industries.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline. An advanced degree is advantageous.
• GenAI tool fluency, including hands-on familiarity with tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent platforms.
• Flexibility to travel across Southeast Asia.

Additional info

You Will Be Successful in This Role If You Are

A strategic technologist. You can connect technology choices to business outcomes and challenge both business and technology stakeholders constructively.

An architecture expert. You understand how applications, data, cloud, integration, AI, security, and infrastructure come together within an enterprise architecture.

AI fluent. You understand both the potential and practical limitations of AI/GenAI and can distinguish a compelling prototype from an architecture capable of operating at enterprise scale.

Hands-on enough to challenge the detail. You do not need to be a full-time software engineer, but you are comfortable getting into architecture diagrams, APIs, data flows, technical designs, engineering decisions, and proofs of concept.

A strong consultant. You can structure ambiguous problems, develop hypotheses, synthesize complex information, facilitate senior discussions, and turn technical analysis into clear recommendations.

A trusted client advisor. You are credible with architects and engineers while also being able to engage CIO/CTO/CDO-level stakeholders on technology strategy and transformation.

Collaborative. You enjoy working across multidisciplinary teams spanning BCG strategy consultants, BCG Platinion architects, engineers, data/AI specialists, and client teams.

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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