Senior AI Tech Architect

Who We Are Are you ready to transform the challenges of digitalization and AI into tomorrow's solutions? Join BCG Platinion in tackling the core technology issues of leading global companies as a Senior AI Tech Architect in Helsinki! Shape and lead strategies, organizations, platforms, and digital solutions that help our clients capture the potential of technology and AI. Work at the intersection of business and technology across topics such as generative and agentic AI, cloud, data, DevOps, and digital platforms. Add your individual strengths to our unique team, always there to support you. Together with our colleagues at Boston Consulting Group and our clients, we turn digital visions into reality. What You'll Do For our Helsinki office, we are looking for Senior AI Tech Architects to help our clients on national and international projects! (Senior) AI Tech Architects are part of our consulting teams who focus for instance on tech-oriented analyses, review & specification of IT systems or architectures, technical solution design, process improvement and target architecture definitions. Together with colleagues from BCG Platinion and/or the Boston Consulting Group, you will develop superior IT strategies, concepts, and solutions actively and on site, applying your technical know-how combined with your analytical and conceptual skillset. Based on your IT project experience, you are able to provide content guidance to and coordinate smaller teams. What You'll Bring You can help us make a difference if you Have approx. four years of relevant experience in software development, data/AI engineering, cloud/platform engineering, solution architecture, or IT consulting, including responsibility for technical workstreams or smaller teams Have a degree in computer science, software engineering, data science, informatics, engineering, or another technology-intensive field including business degrees majoring in any of the mentioned topics or with relevant industry experience Bring hands-on software development or engineering experience and are comfortable reviewing code, APIs, data, technical designs, and modern development environments Have a strong understanding of modern software and cloud architecture concepts, such as APIs and microservices, containerization, cloud-native development, data architectures, distributed systems, CI/CD, and DevOps Have hands-on experience with AI, machine learning, or GenAI solutions and understand how to design LLM-based applications; experience with areas such as RAG, AI agents, model integration, MLOps/LLMOps, or AI evaluation is an advantage Have experience developing technical designs, facilitating architecture decisions, and communicating trade-offs across scalability, resilience, security, maintainability, cost, and delivery feasibility Have broad technical expertise and a strong interest in emerging technology trends across AI, cloud, data, software, and digital platforms Have experience guiding engineers or junior architects and maintaining quality across technical deliverables Combine technical depth with strong communication skills and can explain complex architecture decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders Feel particularly comfortable in interdisciplinary teams and global contexts and are willing to travel Are excellent at understanding and communicating complex topics in English Who You'll Work With Shape the world of tomorrowLead architecture and technical solutioning modules, assess existing technology landscapes, and take ownership of scalable target, solution, and platform architectures across applications, data, cloud, integration, and AI Design and guide the implementation of modern AI and GenAI solutions, including LLM- and agent-based applications, retrieval and knowledge architectures, model and tool integration, and the data and platform components required to operate them at scale Translate business and functional requirements into technical designs, facilitate architecture decisions, and evaluate trade-offs across performance, scalability, resilience, security, maintainability, cost, and vendor choices Lead prototypes, proofs of concept, and technical assessments to test feasibility, evaluate technologies, and de-risk critical architecture and implementation decisions Define the engineering practices and platform capabilities required to move AI solutions from experimentation to production, including APIs, CI/CD, DevOps, MLOps/LLMOps, observability, testing, and lifecycle management Embed security and responsible AI into solution design, coordinate smaller technical teams, and provide content guidance and coaching to engineers and junior architects Additional info Who You'll Work With You will work as part of interdisciplinary BCG and BCG Platinion teams combining business, industry, technology, data, and AI expertise. As a Senior AI Tech Architect, you will take ownership of architecture modules, coordinate smaller technical teams, and act as a trusted technical counterpart for client architects, engineering leads, and technology leaders. Depending on the project, you may design an enterprise AI platform, lead the architecture of an agentic solution, guide the development of a GenAI application, modernize a legacy technology landscape, define a cloud and data architecture, or provide the technical backbone for a large-scale digital transformation. Our projects span industries and technologies, giving you the opportunity to deepen your technical and architecture expertise while developing broader consulting, leadership, and client-facing capabilities. How to grow with us We guarantee constant development incentives in an open and rewarding work environment! Together with a dedicated team of talented colleagues, you get to work on new challenges every day. We provide individual training offers, and a culture of open feedback as the underlying framework for you to explore and perfect personal strengths. Our modern structures allow you to focus on the essence of our work - with easy travel booking, excellent back-office support, and a comprehensive Knowledge Center. With our regular office Fridays and legendary events, we nurture a strong and close team network beyond our case work. #BCGPlatinion 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. BCG is an E - Verify Employer. 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