Lead AI Tech Architect - São Paulo | BCG Platinion
Boston Consulting Group · São Paulo, SP, BR
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 As a BCG Platinion Lead AI Tech Architect, you will help clients turn the potential of AI into scalable, production\-ready technology solutions. You will work closely with client technology leaders and BCG teams to understand complex business and technology challenges, define AI and technology strategies, and design architectures that enable meaningful change. You will provide technical direction and architecture leadership across complex AI initiatives, with particular focus on agentic processes and agentic product development lifecycles (PDLC). Drawing on deep architecture expertise and a strong understanding of hands\-on implementation, you will guide teams through critical technology decisions and, when needed, provide hands\-on support to validate approaches, solve complex technical challenges, or accelerate delivery. * Lead the architecture of production\-grade AI and agentic solutions, from initial design through implementation. * Design agentic architectures incorporating orchestration, tool use, context and memory, guardrails, observability, and human oversight. * Advise clients on architecture choices, technology trade\-offs, integration patterns, scalability, security, resilience, and operational requirements. * Lead complex technology architecture workstreams, translating business needs into clear architecture decisions, roadmaps, and implementation approaches. * Guide initiatives involving agentic processes and agentic PDLC, drawing on experience leading comparable technology programs. * Evaluate emerging AI technologies, platforms, frameworks, and architectural patterns and determine their suitability for specific client contexts. * Provide technical direction to multidisciplinary teams while contributing with hands\-on expertise when needed to validate designs or resolve complex challenges. * Partner with client technology leaders and BCG colleagues to communicate architecture recommendations, build alignment, and support successful implementation. What You'll Bring * 10\+ years of experience in technology architecture, software engineering, digital delivery, or technology consulting. * Proven experience leading and/or designing complex architecture projects involving agentic processes and/or agentic product development lifecycles (PDLC). * Deep technical expertise across cloud architectu