BCG Platinion | AI Tech Architect; Internship

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 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 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.

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 Arch. chapter, your project experience may span adjacent capabilities across BCG Platinion, including engineering, data, AI, cybersecurity, product and technology transformation, depending on client needs.

• 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

• 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 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 explore to the full architecture journey — from framing the business problem and assessing the current landscape to defining target architecture and enabling implementation.

• 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 related field

• Superior technical knowledge, engineering rigor

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to structure…