Global IT Senior Director and Platform Team Lead - Gen AI Platforms and Agentic Development Kit - London

Global IT Senior Director and Platform Team Lead - Gen AI Platforms and Agentic Development Kit - London, United Kingdom

Who We Are

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What You'll Do

BCG is building the next generation of AInative platforms, enabling advanced reasoning systems, autonomous agents, and enterprisescale GenAI capabilities. As a Platform Team Lead (PTL) Gen AI Platforms and Agent Development Kit , you will play a defining role in shaping the core intelligence layer that powers BCG AI solutions globally .

This is a rare opportunity to lead at the forefront of AI platform engineering architecting the systems, tools, and frameworks that hundreds of teams will rely on to innovate, scale, and deliver impact. You will set the strategy, lead highperforming engineering and platform squads, and bring to life a worldclass AI platform that champions safety, performance, scale and responsible innovation/ RAI.

As a PTL, you will drive innovation, collaborate across global teams, and shape the roadmaps that keep BCG at the absolute forefront of AI platforms, capabilities and best practices of building AI/ Agentic solutions at scale.

If you are energised by complex technical challenges, enterprisescale transformation, and building platforms that change how organisations operate, this role offers unmatched scope and influence.

Among your responsibilities, you will:

Lead the Strategy and Execution for the BCGs Core AI/ Intelligence Layer

• Own and evolve the Gen (AI) platform vision and agentic systems, including LLM orchestration, contextual memory, and semantic knowledge layers.
• Shape the roadmap for the Platform AI/ Agent Development Kit (ADK) the core toolset powering developer and team adoption across BCG.
• Lead Gen (AI) platform engineering teams and operating model.
• Scale GenAI capabilities firm wide, across Core IT and business use cases.

Architecting Scalable, AINative Systems

• Design scalable, secure, AI first, cloudnative platform components that support advanced reasoning, longterm memory, and multimodal insights. Doing so by leveraging BCGs cloud/ hyper-scaler & vendor partnerships (AWS, GCP and Azure)
• Define AI solution archetypes for use cases teams to effectively use the platform capabilities with well defined, reusable accelerators, SDK and tool kits.
• Govern platformwide design decisions to ensure safety, scalability, interoperability and implementation of responsible AI standards.
• Own crossfunctional alignment with Data, Security, Capabilities Build, Infrastructure, and business stakeholders

Build and Lead HighPerforming Teams

• Lead engineering, architecture, and platform teams with a culture of excellence, innovation, and accountability.
• Coach and mentor senior talent; champion strong engineering practices and highquality delivery.

Delivery & Operational Excellence

• Own end to end delivery of capabilities & components and services owned by the platform teams.
• Establish and run enterprisegrade AI observability frameworks to monitor performance, safety, and interpretability.
• Continuously enhance LLM Ops, Evaluation and Quality pipelines.
• Ensure robust AIOps/DevSecOps, CI/CD, InfrastructureasCode, and automated delivery pipelines.

What You'll Bring

Leadership & Delivery

• Over 15 years of experience in engineering leadership, platform or product ownership, or technical programme delivery in large enterprise. At least 5 years in AI and Gen AI related experience.
• 3+ years as Senior Director or Equivalent in software/AI engineering or equivalent.
• Demonstrated success leading multi-disciplinary teams (engineering, product, architecture, data).
• Evidence ofinnovationin building/operationalising AI / GenAI or emerging technology platforms.

Technical Expertise

• Masters or Bachelors in AI/ Computer Science & Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Proven success in architecting enterprise-scale AI platforms using modern AI native/ cloud native stacks.
• Deep experience architecting, applying and deployingLLM-based systems, generative models, agent frameworks, and scalable AI/ML platforms.
• Mastery of enterprise cloud stacks (AWS/GCP/Azure), vector DBs, Knowledge Graphs, contextual memory, distributed systems, MLOps/ LLMOps, and infrastructure automation.

Additional info

YOUR TRAVEL

Mostly from the BCG office, occasionally work at other BCG offices.

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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