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Responsibilities
- Analyze complex product, application, and platform landscapes and identify critical architectural constraints.
- Translate business and product strategy into technology capabilities, target architectures, product boundaries, and integration patterns.
- Design and evolve modern SaaS, cloud-native, API-led, modular, distributed, and event-driven product and platform architectures.
- Shape AI-enabled and agentic products and platforms, including data foundations, observability, security, and governance.
- Lead architecture assessments, technical due diligence, independent assurance, vendor proposal reviews, and technical transformation programs.
- Establish architecture governance, manage technical debt, guide legacy remediation, and develop pragmatic transformation roadmaps.
- Improve engineering effectiveness through platform engineering, DevSecOps, SRE, automation, and developer experience.
- Advise clients and colleagues, coach architects and consultants, and lead multidisciplinary teams while influencing senior stakeholders.
Requirements
- Typically 10–15 years of experience across software engineering, architecture, technical leadership, digital delivery, or technology consulting.
- Significant TMT experience with deep expertise in at least one relevant Product & Tech domain.
- Consulting experience combined with meaningful exposure to product, engineering, or technology organizations.
- Strong experience designing and evolving modern product, platform, and software architectures, including SaaS, cloud, and legacy modernization.
- Understanding of AI-enabled and agentic architecture, modern data foundations, and implications for product and engineering organizations.
- Ability to make and communicate high-impact decisions across application, cloud, platform, integration, data, and AI architectures.
- Experience with modern engineering practices and the relationship between architecture, team structures, and ways of working.
- Strong executive communication, storytelling, judgment, commercial awareness, and stakeholder leadership skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and build credibility with senior business, product, and technology stakeholders.
- University degree in a STEM-related field or business management; MBA or MSc qualifications are advantageous.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About BCG
Boston Consulting Group provides management consulting, technology, and design services to large enterprises, governments, and nonprofits, helping with strategy, digital transformation, and operations. The firm works on a project-based, fee-for-service model and also incubates products and ventures through BCG X. Founded in 1963 and headquartered in Boston, it is a global partnership with offices worldwide.