IT Enterprise Architect Senior Manager - Data

<p><strong>Locations</strong>: Gurgaon | Heredia</p><p class="job-description-header">Who We Are</p><p>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.<br><br>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.</p><br><br><p class="job-description-header">What You'll Do</p><p>BCG is looking for a hands-on Solution Architect Senior Manager to join the Enterprise Architecture team responsible for the architecture, design, and delivery of technical solutions, primarily focusing on implementation of data platform, products, and data integration/ingestion. This role will oversee multiple workstreams, such that they can drive consistency and synergy across solutions for the enterprise. This role provides the opportunity to innovate, collaborate, and influence data engineering best practices across BCG, while providing leadership and collaboration across teams on high-visibility enterprise initiatives. They will also maintain awareness of emerging technologies relevant to their areas of expertise and work with other architects, technical teams and vendors to evaluate, design and deliver scalable, secure, and reliable solutions.</p><p>  <br>The successful candidate will be a highly motivated strategic thinker, engaging collaborator, and effective influencer. Key objectives of the role are to drive digital transformation, strategic and tactical use of technology to deliver data and AI capabilities in a high paced environment.</p><p> </p><p>Critical to the Solution Architect’s success is their ability to collaborate with project teams to deliver results balanced with adherence to standards and best practices. This role will coordinate and provide oversight to domain architects and engineering leads across other portfolios and workstreams.  <br>  <br>This role will also facilitate cross-enterprise coordination, ensuring to accommodate requirements across the enterprise and address data architecture/integration needs for solutions. Collaborate with multi-disciplinary architects and engineers across the business and technology teams to progress on Tech@BCG strategy, develop technology roadmaps, and technical standards. Work as an interface point with technical partners, determining to offer value and facilitate coordination on joint initiatives. </p><p> </p><br><br><p class="job-description-header">What You'll Bring</p><ul><li>12+ years’ experience architecture/engineering work. Ideally a blend of experience in engineering and solution architecture with multiple years' experience of developing and operating highly performant data solutions.</li><li>Deep knowledge of working with structured and unstructured data</li><li>Translating complex business problems into clear, pragmatic, outcome-driven solution architectures with well-documented trade-offs.</li><li>Applying systems thinking across multiple platforms and domains; identifying and resolving integration challenges before they become blockers.</li><li>Data engineering (Python preferred), API/microservice design (REST, GraphQL), event-driven architecture (event bus, event orchestration, like AWS Eventbridge, Kafka or similar)</li><li>Solution engineering across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), cloud services, networking and security.</li><li>Designing and building scalable ingestion pipelines (Fivetran, AWS Glue, Airbyte, DBT, Airflow, or similar).</li><li>Conducting proof of concept, evaluation of vendor tools, scoring, build vs buy comparative analysis, recommending innovative tech for adoption.</li><li>Evaluating GenAI and agentic solutions, building MCP servers, skills/tools and agent orchestration frameworks.</li><li>Expertise in agent patterns and LLMs, RAG, vector/graph DBs, memory, security guardrails, HITL workflows.</li></ul><p> </p><br><br><p class="job-description-header">Who You'll Work With</p><ul><li>You will be reporting to the BCG IT Senior Director for Enterprise Architecture and work in the central Enterprise Architecture team. You will be working very closely with our data teams. This is an individual contributor role and will be expected to develop strong and influential relationships to all the solution architects working in all domains including our GenAI development teams.<br><br></li><li>You will be working closely with Functional teams, Data Product Portfolio, BI&A Product Portfolio, Master Data Management, Data Engineers and Data Governance teams.</li></ul><p> </p><br><br><p class="job-description-header">Additional info</p><p><strong>YOU'RE GOOD AT</strong></p><ul><li>Collaborate with other Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects and Data Engineers to architect technical solutions that are aligned with enterprise technology standards and architecture patterns, while also working to help develop and grow those standards and best practices. </li><li>Work across multiple systems/solutions to ensure their consistency and alignment, as well as to determine how multiple systems/solutions can work together to ensure that solution architecture is adaptable across various lines of business. </li><li>Hands-on to deliver technical solutions from prototype to production, including evaluating the viability and security of emerging GenAI/agent technologies.</li><li>Build innovative data capabilities, rapid prototyping to accelerate time-to-market, collaborate with other architects to align with enterprise standards; contribute to evolve standards.</li><li>Solution design and scale data systems; define standards for agentic development, orchestration, deployment, and monitoring. Build and evolve MCP services to enable tooling for data engineering, lifecycle management and governance.</li><li>Define and apply standard patterns covering access controls, guardrails, observability, performance, and reliability. Use AI-assisted engineering tools (Claude Code, Cursor, equivalents) to accelerate delivery with strong quality and security controls.</li><li>Leverage experience and expertise across a wide variety of technology domains, including infrastructure, data management, systems integration, and application development, using modern platform technologies e.g. cloud infrastructure, event-based exchange, APIs, LLMs, vector/graph databases.</li><li>Able to match the fast-changing tech landscape and business priorities, exhibit high levels of autonomy, energize the teams to see the possibilities for efficiency and effectiveness of applying innovative approaches, design patterns, and cutting-edge technologies.</li><li>Create artefact templates, technical documentation, enforce architecture governance, and adherence to compliance policies. Find answers to complex and ambiguous questions, connect and collaborate across teams to solve their solution challenges. Seek diverse inputs, and with a growth mindset consider both conventional and unconventional answers.</li><li>Provide technical oversight to multiple project teams. Ensure that solutions developed are in support of the business outcomes aligned with BCG Enterprise Architecture technical standards, and technology roadmaps. </li><li>Organize architecture technical reviews, ensure wider architecture peer input is sought for robust design. Participate in technical design authority to review solution proposals. Drive alignment through influence and negotiation.</li><li>Exercise standards and best practices, apply well-architected framework to achieve high system performance, scalability and reliability. Ensure architecture decision records are created to clearly communicate the design options and decision to all key stakeholders.</li><li>Review and consider prospective changes to the baseline solution that have been raised by process owners, data owners, product owners, and technical teams for architectural impact.</li><li>Discuss emerging technologies with vendors to assess options and propose solutions.</li><li>Evaluate solution options to meet functional & nonfunctional requirements, improve functionality, achieve cost optimization and platform efficiencies through automation.</li><li>Effective at influencing in a highly matrixed organization.</li></ul><p> </p><p>At BCG, our people and relationships are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that in-person collaboration plays an important role in our culture, mentorship, and professional development.</p><p><br>For this role, you will generally be expected to work from a BCG office or in person with clients on a regular basis (typically around 50% of working time), depending on business needs and in line with local policies and practices.</p><p> </p><p>We aim to provide a dynamic and collaborative environment that fosters connection and teamwork.</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>