Global IT Senior Director - Enterprise Architect, GenAI

WHAT YOU'LL DO
BCG is looking for a Senior Director level Enterprise Architect to pioneer the way forward on the use of GenAI across BCG to deliver world class insights and benefits to our clients, and, drive efficiencies and new ways of working within our internal support teams.

The heart of this role is to lead and evolve the architectures(s) that enable our leading edge uses of GenAI with our consulting and internal teams, for today and for our future.

You will be an expert in GenAI and AI with multiple year experience of the consulting industry, ideally you would also have extensive background in knowledge management. You will be great at working with consulting and knowledge teams and an amazing collaborator, finding new ways of working using GenAI.

You will know how to design, scale and run solutions at scale for a global company with extensive experience of architecting solutions using modern paradigms including cloud, containers, APIS and AI development.
YOU'RE GOOD AT

* Energising our people to set a vision and see the possibilities for efficiency, effectiveness of using GenAI
* Finding great answers to complex and ambiguous questions, connecting and across teams to collaboratively develop enterprise, platform and solution architectures. You will seek diverse views, and with a growth mindset considering both conventional and unconventional answers.
* You will be high energy, able to match the fast-changing tech landscape and business priorities. You will exhibit high levels of autonomy, experiences and capable in driving change in a global, matrix organisation.
* Rolling up your sleeves and “doing”, pioneering the way forward and bring others along with you. You produce high-quality Enterprise Architecture arguments and supporting materials. You are adept at agreeing these at different levels in the organisation. You must be a brilliant storyteller and amazing at PowerPoint. You will be at ease and brilliant at presenting to anyone on our C-suite.
* Influencing and collaborating with others, especially solution architects and technical leaders across the organisation. You will be passionate at developing others through mentoring, coaching, and sharing knowledge.
* Applying modern methodologies such as Kanban, Scrum, Lean, Design/Product thinking and UI/UX to your work and encouraging others to adopt and use these methods.
* Your passion is technology. You will be highly knowledgeable and conversant with modern computing paradigms and relentless in your curiosity to learn and apply this to your work. You will demonstrate expertise in modern digital thinking including GenAI, AI, data architecture, domain driven design, APIs, microservices, cloud, cloud security and identity services on cloud.
* Optimising your own role and delivering results. You understand that architecture is part of a value stream where we need to play our part in being efficient to help increase velocity and reduce risk across the architecture team and the teams we work with.

YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)

* 10+ years’ experience leading architecture work. Ideally a blend of experience in development, solution and enterprise architecture with multiple years' experience of AI and real-world experience of the latest GenAI technologies.
* Your experience will include:
* Deep knowledge of AI and GenAI
* Multiple successful experiences of leading the development of AI or GenAI driven solutions.
* Preparing materials for, and presenting at, senior levels including C-Suite. You are an expert storyteller and produce amazing PowerPoint.
* Leading the development of business cases and then landing agreeing at C-suite investment boards with minimal supervision
* Highly effective at influencing in a highly matrixed organisation
* Expert knowledge of consulting, you are likely to have been a consultant in your past.

YOU'LL WORK WITH
You will be reporting to the BCG IT Executive Director for Enterprise Architecture and work in the central Enterprise Architecture team. You will be working very closely with our knowledge team. This is an individual contributor role and will be expected to develop strong and influential relationships to all the architects working in AI and GenAI across all of BCG including our leading edge GenAI development teams in BCG X