Senior AI Tech Architect - Financial Services

<p class="job-description-header">Who We Are</p><p><a href="https://www.bcg.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston Consulting Group (BCG)</a> is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. Our success depends on a spirit of deep collaboration and a global community of diverse individuals determined to make the world and each other better every day.</p><p> </p><p>BCG's Tech and Digital Advantage (TDA) practice focuses on helping clients deliver competitive advantage and business superior performance through data, technology and digital. BCG Platinion sits within the TDA practice and is at the heart of the strategic impact we have with our clients. Our consultants and experts globally work across all industries and provide deep experience and expertise in a wide variety of topics including Digital Transformation, Data & Digital Platforms, AI at Scale, Cybersecurity and Digitizing the Tech Function.</p><p> </p><p>At BCG, we bring together the right people to conquer complexity, drive material change, and initiate positive, long-term impact. Explore our <a href="https://careers.bcg.com/bcg-culture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BCG Culture and Values</a> for more information.</p><br><p><span><strong><span>About BCG Platinion</span></strong></span></p><p> </p><p>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.</p><br><p class="job-description-header">What You'll Do</p><p>Senior AI Tech Architects at BCG Platinion are:</p><ul><li>Collaborative. They are interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and establish relationships ranging from cross-functional stakeholder groups to existing teams.</li><li>Technical experts. They are critical thinkers and have extensive IT expertise that drives novel solutions routed in complexity.</li><li>Comfortable with ambiguity. They know the path forward isn't always well-defined. They are comfortable and confident working through the unknown.</li><li>Change agents. They know how to make change happen across an organization. They can align and onboard teams to implement new processes and toolsets. They embrace complex challenges and guide an organization to optimize IT best practices.</li><li>Agile advocates. They are well-versed in agile methodologies and use their expertise to strategically tackle difficult challenges and implement change.</li><li>Innovative. They are creative thinkers who apply their deep IT architecture expertise to envision novel design patterns for the next generation of technology solutions.</li><li>Knowledgeable. They have a sophisticated understanding of IT Architecture, acting as a viable resource on teams as both a hands-on practitioner and subject matter expert.</li><li>Strategic partners. They work closely with senior client stakeholders, including C-level executives, to build hypothesis-driven solutions at the intersection of technology and business. They bridge the gap between IT and business functions, ensuring technology strategies are aligned with organizational goals to solve critical business challenges.</li></ul><p>You’re Good At:</p><ul><li>Financial Services Technology <em>(Preferred)</em><ul><li>Designing end-to-end architectures for financial services environments, spanning core systems, channels, payments, and integration with external networks and partners</li><li>Architecting scalable, secure, and resilient transactional platforms that meet the availability, integrity, and reconciliation requirements typical of financial services and payments environments</li><li>Integrating heterogeneous financial systems and external networks (e.g., payment processors, partners, regulators) using modern API- and event-driven patterns</li><li>Defining integration and messaging standards aligned with enterprise and cloud architectures, including industry standards relevant to financial services (e.g., REST APIs, ISO 20022, ISO 8583)</li><li>Embedding security, fraud, and regulatory requirements into system design (e.g., PCI DSS, SCA, tokenization, encryption, data residency)</li><li>Assessing and modernizing legacy financial services landscapes — including core systems and payment platforms — through platform migrations, vendor transitions, and cloud adoption</li></ul></li><li>IT Architecture and Solution Design<ul><li>Designing solution, application, and data architecture.</li><li>Developing feasibility studies, technical concepts, executing technical proofs of concept, and scaling software solutions.</li><li>Performing technology assessments and implementing IT architectures.</li><li>Analyzing complex IT application landscapes and status quo for IT architecture optimization.</li><li>Reviewing technical architecture and code.</li></ul></li><li>IT Optimization and Transformation<ul><li>Supporting IT functions during mergers and acquisitions, including the functional and technical transformation of an organization’s IT department.</li><li>Restructuring IT processes and organization.</li><li>Optimizing the application development processes.</li></ul></li><li>Implementation management and support<ul><li>Designing work packages/modules in IT implementation projects.</li><li>Evaluating products, SW packages, and solutions, including comparative studies across organizations’ systems (e.g., ERPs, HR systems, Data Analytics).</li><li>Assessing quality assurance for IT implementation.</li></ul></li><li>Communication and Collaboration<ul><li>Crafting compelling narratives, translating complex ideas for both technical and non-technical audiences.</li><li>Delivering impactful presentations, leading modules, presenting findings, and building consensus with clients.</li><li>Building collaboration, mentoring teams, and sharing knowledge to drive collective success.</li></ul></li><li>Innovation and Growth<ul><li>Driving innovation, uncovering novel ideas and transformative solutions.</li><li>Fostering a growth mindset, continuously learning and applying new skills to grow your impact.</li><li>Assisting with business development through writing proposals and scoping projects.</li></ul></li></ul><br><br><p class="job-description-header">What You'll Bring</p><ul><li>2+ years of technology consulting or software engineering experience with more than 1 year in IT or Business architecture discipline</li><li>BS  in information technology, business administration, computer science, information systems, or system controls & engineering or a related field</li><li>Experience working in or with the financial services industry (e.g., banking, payments, capital markets, insurance), with an understanding of how technology choices affect customer experience, risk, cost, and scalability</li><li>Experience translating business use cases into pragmatic, production-ready technology architectures, ideally in regulated or transaction-intensive environments</li><li>Ability to work across product, engineering, risk, compliance, and operations to deliver end-to-end technology solutions</li><li>Superior technical knowledge, engineering rigor, and creative problem-solving</li><li>Ability to explain complex technology topics to senior executives</li><li>Extensive technical expertise and knowledge along one or more of the following topics:<ul><li>Cloud technologies, architectures, designing cloud workloads and optimizing cloud footprint (i.e., FinOps)</li><li>Integration methodologies, design patterns and associated tooling (API and Microservices architecture)</li><li>Structured and unstructured databases and usage patterns</li><li>Data platform architecture and associated patterns (e.g. Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Lakehouse, etc.)</li><li>Data analytics, AI and GenAI architecture</li><li>Application modernization, programming paradigms and approaches (e.g. object-oriented)</li><li>Mainframe architecture</li><li>Process automation approaches and tooling (e.g. DevOps, AIOps)</li></ul></li><li>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</li><li>Business-fluent written and spoken English language skills.  </li><li>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</li><li>Gen AI tool fluency (e.g., proven usage of GenAI such as ChatGPT, Claude) and validation of response.</li></ul><br><br><p class="job-description-header">Additional info</p><div>What We Offer: </div><p>At BCG, we care about our people, and offer best in class benefits to support you personally and professionally throughout your different life experiences including:</p><ul><li>An opportunity to work organically across disciplines and across BCG, we offer a unified and unrivaled opportunity that combines strategic thinking with hands-on applications.</li><li>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. BCG pioneered strategy consulting more than 50 years ago, and we continue to innovate and redefine the industry. We offer multiple career paths for the world's best talent to have a real impact on business and society. As part of our team, you will benefit from the breadth and diversity of what we are doing today and where we are headed next. We count on your authenticity, exceptional work, and strong integrity. In return we are committed to supporting you in discovering the most fulfilling career journey possible-and unlocking your potential to advance the world.</li></ul><p>Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, contributions to BCG’s retirement program, and a market-leading benefits package.</p><p> </p><p>To learn more about our employee benefit please check our <a href="https://careers.bcg.com/employee-benefits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BCG Benefits page</a>.</p><br><br><p>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. <br>BCG is an E - Verify Employer. <a href="https://careers.bcg.com/global/en/e-verify" target="_blank">Click here </a> for more information on E-Verify.</p>