(Senior) AI Tech Architect - Johannesburg | BCG Platinion

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.

Practice Area

BCG Platinion launched in Germany in 2000 to add deep technical expertise to the Boston Consulting Group’s existing capabilities. Today, our presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. Our New York-based North American team began in 2014 and in 2017 acquired MAYA Design, a Pittsburgh-based digital design and innovation lab, to grow our capabilities around technology and design.

We support our clients’ total digital transformation through technology, design, cybersecurity, and risk management & financial engineering capabilities. And together with BCG, BCG Platinion’s interdisciplinary team of technical experts enable customized technical solutions and accelerate delivery value through new business platforms, application consolidations, and major system implementations.

What You'll Do

At BCG Platinion we help our clients anticipate tomorrow's digital world to maintain competitive advantage and bring the tech capabilities they need to achieve digital excellence. We are keen to engage with experienced, visionary, and strategic IT Architects who will help us unlock our client’s digital potential and ignite change.

You will play a key role in defining IT master plans and shaping enterprise-wide architecture strategies that bridge technology and business objectives. Working hand-in-hand with senior executives and C-level stakeholders, you will influence strategic decisions at the highest level, translate business ambition into actionable architecture blueprints, and ensure long-term resilience, scalability, and innovation.

Meaningful work is at the core of everything we do. We build unique solutions to the complexities our clients face, while providing our people with opportunities to explore and grow. A community of leading technology professionals, BCG Platinion team members have a natural springboard for professional growth and deeper opportunities to excel.

As a Senior IT Architect, you will provide guidance on complex challenges such as large-scale digital transformation, tech modernization, cloud strategies, or due diligence. You will also contribute to enterprise-wide architecture master planning, helping organizations structure their technology foundations.

You will regularly act as a strategic advisor to CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level leaders, supporting them in high-impact decisions on technology investments, transformation roadmaps, and digital resilience. Your expertise will enable you to challenge the status quo, inspire innovation, and drive sustainable competitive advantage.

You will be working on complex and exciting problems at enterprise and global scale across multiple industries (public sector, industrial goods, banking, telecommunication, media, and more). This is also a unique opportunity to deepen your expertise, sharpen your strategic thinking, and accelerate your career in technology consulting.

Our Expert Consulting Track

The Expert Consulting Track (ECT) is vital to BCG’s ability to successfully meet our clients’ demand for deep expertise and advanced technical capabilities. Experts deliver next-level impact for BCG's most complex and cutting-edge client challenges. Experts focus on developing BCG's thought leadership, commercial capabilities, and intellectual property assets; and their work is essential to our delivery model. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team to bring the ‘best of BCG’ to our clients, Experts come from diverse backgrounds, with expertise often gained outside of BCG in industry, academia, or specialized consulting.

What You'll Bring

• 4 to 8 years of experience in technology consulting, enterprise architecture, or large-scale transformation programs, ideally within client-facing and strategic advisory environments.
• Proven experience engaging with C-level stakeholders, contributing to strategic decision-making, and supporting the definition of long-term technology roadmaps.
• Strong expertise in one or more of the following areas: data architecture, solution architecture, cloud-native architecture, or enterprise integration.
• Hands-on experience with modern cloud platforms and ecosystems; relevant certifications such as Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Salesforce are considered a strong advantage.
• Strategic and business-oriented mindset, with the ability to connect business ambitions to scalable and impactful technology solutions.
• Passion for technology and innovation, with a strong ambition to build a long-term career in technology consulting while continuously expanding technical and strategic expertise.
• Professional fluency in English, with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Engineering degree or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field.

Who You'll Work With

• BCG Managing Directors and Partners (MDPs)
• BCG Platinion Managing Directors and senior leadership
• BCG Consultants and Platinion Architects at all levels
• Clients’ senior leadership, including CIOs, CTOs, and CxOs

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