# BCG Platinion | AI Tech Architect (Internship) [BCG](https://www.jorb.ai/firms/bcg.md) · New York · United States · [Technology & Digital](https://www.jorb.ai/jobs/technology-digital.md) BCG is hiring a BCG Platinion | AI Tech Architect (Internship) in New York. Posted 2026-09-02; applications close 2026-11-01. **Apply**: https://careers.bcg.com/global/en/job/BCG1US58854EXTERNALENGLOBAL/bcg-platinion-|-ai-tech-architect-(internship) Posted 3d ago. ## Role details ## Locations New York | Chicago ## Who We Are BCG Platinion’s presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. We deliver digital excellence for clients through sustained solutions to complex and time-sensitive challenges. We guide clients into the future by pushing beyond the status quo, overcoming technology limitations, and enabling faster progress in their digital journeys. At BCG Platinion, we deliver business value through the innovative use of technology at a rapid pace. We transform businesses, 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 technology platforms at scale. ## What You’ll Do As a **BCG Platinion IT Architecture intern**, you will work directly with clients and multidisciplinary teams to solve complex technology challenges, shape recommendations, and help design and implement technology transformations. While you will join the Architecture chapter, your project experience may span adjacent capabilities across BCG Platinion—including engineering, data, AI, cybersecurity, product, and technology transformation—depending on client needs. ### What you may work on - **Enterprise Architecture & Modernization** - Assess complex application and technology landscapes - Identify modernization opportunities across applications, cloud, data and platforms - Help define target-state architectures and pragmatic transformation roadmaps - **Cloud, platform & engineering** - Support cloud and platform architecture decisions across AWS, Azure, and GCP - Evaluate scalability, resilience, performance, cost, and developer experience trade-offs - Contribute to application modernization and integration design - **Data, AI & emerging technology** - Explore modern data architectures and AI-enabled solutions - Design and test proofs of concept, including GenAI and agentic use cases - Evaluate technology choices for feasibility, governance, security, and business value ### How you will create impact - **Turn strategy into architecture** - Translate business requirements into technology capabilities and architecture decisions - Develop architecture options, decision frameworks, and recommendations - Connect technical choices to business value, cost, risk, and speed to market - **Work with clients and multidisciplinary teams** - Collaborate with client architects, engineers, product leaders, and executives - Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences - Support workshops, architecture reviews, and technology decision-making - Work across the Architecture chapter and adjacent Platinion capabilities based on project needs - **Move from recommendation to execution** - Create architecture artifacts, roadmaps, and implementation plans - Support proofs of concept and early implementation activities - Help clients navigate major technology transformations, including modernization, platform, data, and M&A programs This internship provides exposure to the full architecture journey—from framing the business problem and assessing the current landscape to defining target architecture and enabling implementation. ## What You’ll Bring ### Qualifications - Master’s degree in information technology, computer science, information systems, business management, engineering management, or system controls & engineering, or a related field - Graduating between December 2027 and July 2028 - Ideally 2+ years of professional experience in technology consulting, software engineering, or a related field - Superior technical knowledge and engineering rigor - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to structure unfamiliar problems, work with complete information, and develop evidence-based conclusions - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences - A growth and learning mindset and a desire to stay up to date on the latest technology and tools - Willingness to travel to work with clients and BCG teams; at times, this role involves significant travel to client sites (the amount depends on client needs and the nature of the project) **Exposure to any of the following is a plus:** - **Technical fluency across modern enterprise architecture**, including: - **AI-native and agentic architectures** - GenAI application patterns, RAG, agent orchestration, model selection, evaluation - Designing AI systems for reliability, security, observability, governance, and cost - **Modern cloud & platform engineering** - Cloud-native architecture across AWS, Azure or GCP (containers, Kubernetes, etc.) - Platform engineering, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and developer experience - Architectural trade-offs across cost, scalability, resilience, and performance - **Data architecture for AI and analytics** - Modern data platforms, lakehouse/data mesh/data products patterns - Structured and unstructured data, semantic/vector retrieval, metadata, and data governance - **Distributed systems & integration** - APIs, event-driven architectures, microservices and modern integration patterns - Understanding system boundaries, interoperability, resiliency, and scalability - **Architecture operations & modernization** - Observability, SRE/reliability engineering, automation and AIOps - Assessing legacy technology estates and defining pragmatic modernization pathways - Ability to translate technology choices into business outcomes—balancing value, feasibility, risk, cost, and speed to market ## Additional Info ### Our timeline Applications are due at **11:59 PM ET on Thursday, October 1, 2026**. The application includes two additional components: - **Consulting Career Assessment (CCA):** The CCA helps learn more about you beyond what’s reflected in your resume and application. It provides unbiased, multi-dimensional insight into your potential for success at BCG. You will receive an email from Talent Central (email: talentcentral@shl.com) with the subject line: “Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Invites You to Complete an Assessment”. The assessment must be completed within the timeframe specified in your invitation email. - **Video Cover Letter:** Details will be sent via email on a rolling basis (usually within a week of submitting your application). If you apply to more than one Platinion Internship role, you only need to complete one video cover letter. ### Locations and program notes **Locations:** New York, NY; Chicago, IL Please note this program is evaluative, and interns have the opportunity to receive full-time offers. The internship program operates in an “office hub” model. If you receive a full-time offer, you can request a different office location outside of these summer hubs; expected offices for a Platinion AI Tech Architect full-time offer include New York City, Dallas, Brooklyn, Chicago, and Washington D.C. ### Equal Opportunity 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 ## Applying to this role This BCG Platinion | AI Tech Architect (Internship) role at BCG runs through the firm's own careers portal and expects a CV and cover letter written specifically for the posting, not a portable submission carried across firms. Jorb AI's application agent tailors a CV and cover letter from your background to this posting and tracks the role alongside the rest of your applications. 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