BCG Platinion | Senior AI Tech Architect

Boston Consulting Group (BCG); Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 145,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Zero-dollar health premiums

Dental coverage

Vision insurance

Retirement contributions

Paid time off

Job summary

Boston Consulting Group in Nashville seeks a senior IT Architect to design and implement complex IT architectures, data platforms, and cloud solutions for global clients.

You will collaborate with senior stakeholders, lead agile transformation, and contribute to proposals and project delivery, traveling as needed.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in technology consulting or software engineering with IT or architecture focus.
• Strong technical knowledge across cloud, data, and integration domains.
• Ability to explain complex tech topics to senior executives.
• Experience with GenAI tools and modern architecture patterns.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver IT architecture and transformation solutions.
• Lead design of cloud architectures, data platforms, and integration patterns.
• Guide clients through Agile, DevOps, and modern IT practices.
• Support business development with proposal writing and scoping.

Skills

Technology consulting experience

Executive communication

Gen AI fluency

Cloud & data architecture

API & microservices design

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, or related field

Job description

Locations

Atlanta | Austin | Boston | Brooklyn | Chicago | Dallas | Denver | Detroit | Durham | Houston | Miami | Minneapolis | Nashville | New York | Philadelphia | Pittsburgh | Summit | Washington

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

• Collaborative. Interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and establish relationships ranging from cross‑functional stakeholder groups to existing teams.
• Technical experts. Critical thinkers with extensive IT expertise that drives novel solutions routed in complexity.
• Comfortable with ambiguity. Know the path forward isn’t always well‑defined and are confident working through the unknown.
• Change agents. Make change happen across an organization, aligning and onboarding teams to implement new processes and toolsets, guiding optimization of IT best practices.
• Agile advocates. Well‑versed in agile methodologies and use expertise to strategically tackle difficult challenges and implement change.
• Innovative. Creative thinkers who apply deep IT architecture expertise to envision novel design patterns for the next generation of technology solutions.
• Knowledgeable. Sophisticated understanding of IT Architecture, acting as a viable resource on teams as both a hands‑on practitioner and subject matter expert.
• Strategic partners. Work closely with senior client stakeholders, including C‑level executives, to build hypothesis‑driven solutions at the intersection of technology and business, bridging the gap between IT and business functions to align technology strategies with organizational goals.

What You Are Good At

IT Architecture and Solution Design

• Designing solution, application, and data architecture.
• Developing feasibility studies, technical concepts, executing technical proofs of concept, and scaling software solutions.
• Performing technology assessments and implementing IT architectures.
• Analyzing complex IT application landscapes and status quo for IT architecture optimization.
• Reviewing technical architecture and code.

IT Optimization and Transformation

• Supporting IT functions during mergers and acquisitions, including the functional and technical transformation of an organization’s IT department.
• Restructuring IT processes and organization.
• Optimizing the application development processes.

Implementation Management and Support

• Designing work packages/modules in IT implementation projects.
• Evaluating products, SW packages, and solutions, including comparative studies across organizations’ systems (e.g., ERPs, HR systems, Data Analytics).
• Assessing quality assurance for IT implementation.

Communication and Collaboration

• Crafting compelling narratives, translating complex ideas for both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Delivering impactful presentations, leading modules, presenting findings, and building consensus with clients.
• Building collaboration, mentoring teams, and sharing knowledge to drive collective success.

Innovation and Growth

• Driving innovation, uncovering novel ideas and transformative solutions.
• Fostering a growth mindset, continuously learning and applying new skills to grow impact.
• Assisting with business development through writing proposals and scoping projects.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business administration, computer science, information systems, or system controls & engineering or a related field (Master’s degree is a plus).
• 4+ years of technology consulting or software engineering experience with more than 1 year in IT or Business architecture discipline.
• Superior technical knowledge, engineering rigor, and creative problem‑solving.
• Ability to explain complex technology topics to senior executives.
• Extensive technical expertise and knowledge along one or more of the following topics:
  • Cloud technologies, architectures, designing cloud workloads and optimizing cloud footprint (i.e., FinOps).
  • Integration methodologies, design patterns and associated tooling (API and Microservices architecture).
  • Structured and unstructured databases and usage patterns.
  • Data platform architecture and associated patterns (e.g., Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Lakehouse).
  • Data analytics, AI and GenAI architecture.
  • Application modernization, programming paradigms and approaches (e.g., object‑oriented).
  • Mainframe architecture.
  • Process automation approaches and tooling (e.g., DevOps, AIOps).
• An agile mindset that moves past blockers and a vision to iteratively migrate to the modern set of architecture capabilities with a lens of business benefits/value.
• Willingness to travel 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.
• Gen AI tool fluency (e.g., proven usage of GenAI such as ChatGPT, Claude) and validation of response.

Additional Info

What We Offer

• An opportunity to work organically across disciplines and across BCG, offering a unified and unrivaled opportunity that combines strategic thinking with hands‑on applications.
• A unique experience to work alongside a team of passionate and driven problem‑solvers with a mission to deliver innovative and valuable digital solutions in a supportive environment.

For U.S. Applicants

The first year base compensation for this role is $150,000 in USD. In addition to your base salary, you will also be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus and BCG’s Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution. BCG also provides a market‑leading benefits package described below. At BCG, We Are Committed To Offering a Comprehensive Benefit Program That Includes Everything Our Employees And Their Families Need To Be Well And Live Life To The Fullest. We Pay The Full Cost Of Medical, Dental, And Vision Coverage For Employees – And Their Eligible Family Members. That’s Zero Dollars In Premiums Taken From Employee Paychecks. All Our Plans Provide Best In Class Coverage.

• Zero‑dollar health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children.
• $10 copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs.
• Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 in orthodontia benefits.
• Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually.
• Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities.
• Fully vested retirement contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not.
• Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, and annual office closure between Christmas and New Years.
• Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement.
• Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.

To learn more about our employee benefits please check our Benefits page.

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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