(Senior) AI Tech Architect - Greater China | BCG Platinion

Boston Consulting Group · Shanghai

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Locations: Shanghai | Hong Kong | Shenzhen

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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.

What You'll Do

Developing & Designing

• Analysing complex IT application landscapes
• Analysing the status quo and optimization of IT architectures
• Identifying non-trivial technology decisions facing a client
• Storytelling about architectural building blocks and their importance
• Road mapping and business case development

Controlling & Managing

• Reviewing vendor proposals and/or in-flight technical work
• IT project management and quality assurance
• Optimizing application development processes

Building community

• Advising internal colleagues on core technical concepts and frameworks
• Advising fellow architects on areas relevant to an area you have depth in
• Developing a network in the BCG technical community and leveraging it for our clients

What You'll Bring

• • • • Experience in software development, technical project management, digital delivery, or technology consulting
• University degree with above-average academic performance in a mathematical-scientific field, Data Science, information technology, or business administration
• Previous industry or consulting experience considered with a background in data science preferred and a good understanding of concepts relevant to AL /ML
• Experience in architecting scalable, performance and cost optimized AL/ML Solutions.
• You can speak the language of Enterprise technology and can run a complex design process with multiple stakeholders in order to implement enterprise Gen AI platforms.
• You will have designed and built something in complex legacy organisation
• Able to differentiate concepts & applicability of Large Language Models (LLMs) vs. other AI/ML techniques
• Knowledge of the main GenAI technology players and LLM products whilst being able to articulate their merits and implications for clients’ sourcing strategies (e.g. guardrails, security, performance and cost)
• You will have experience with GenAI, python and typescript (Previous experience in coding is highly desirable although you will not be coding)
• Hands on experience in deploying and hosting Large Foundational Models (LFM)
• Able to articulate the key application components in a typical GenAI solution, their purposes & interactions
• Experience in people design and implementation of generative AI platforms for clients alongside a dev team from strategy to IT operations.
• Design LLM-enabled target process flows identifying implications / requirements for each solution component
• Experience on integration methodologies for accessing necessary GenAI data sources
• Knowledge in developing and integrating APIs especially related to serve ML models
• Experience in providing guidance in technical implementation of production-grade applications by engineering teams
• Applied knowledge of popular models, vendors (incl. cloud providers), orchestration frameworks and advanced prompt engineering, fine-tuning etc.
• Able to understand & apply advanced prompt engineering methods and related concepts (RAG, context windows, memory)
• Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done to ensure both your team and our clients succeed.
• Knowledge in developing and integrating APIs especially related to serve ML models.
• Overview of common development methods and tools DevOps practices and Continuous Improvement
• Experience with Micro services topologies, including operational concerns such as resiliency, observability, discovery and routing, security etc.
• Experience with, and understand how to lead, legacy integration and remediation (facades, strangler approaches, et. al.)

Who You'll Work With

• BCG Managing Directors and Partners (MDP’s)
• PLA Managing Directors (MD’s)
• BCG Consultants at all levels
• PLA Consultants at all levels
• Clients, vendors, partners

Additional info

The 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 federal, state or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.

In addition, as a federal government contractor, BCG maintains an affirmative action program which furthers its commitment and complies with recordkeeping and reporting requirements under certain federal civil rights laws and regulations. BCG is an E-Verify Employer. Click here for more information on E-Verify.

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• 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.
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