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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.

What You'll Do

As aBCG 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 adjacentcapabilities 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 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.

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 related field

• Superior technical knowledge, engineering rigor

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to structure unfamiliar problems, work within complete information, and develop evidence-based conclusions

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with theability to explain technical concepts clearly and conciselyto both technical and non-technical audiences

• A growth and learning mindset and desire to keep up to dateon 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 of travel will depend on client needs and nature of 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 11:59PM ET on Thursday, October 1, 2026. The application includes two additional components:

1. Consulting Career Assessment (CCA): CCA helps us 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". Please note that the assessment must be completed within the timeframe specified in your invitation email.
2. 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: New York, NY; Chicago, IL

Please note this program is evaluative, and interns have the opportunity to receive full-time offers. Our 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; the expected offices for a Platinion AI Tech Architect full-time offer include New York City, Dallas, Brooklyn, Chicago, and Washington D.C.

FOR U.S. APPLICANTS: 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.

Thefirst yearbase compensation for this role is between $110,000 - $120,000 USD.
For Full Time Employees, BCG offers a comprehensive benefits program, including medical, dental and vision coverage, telemedicine services, life, accident and disability insurance, parental leave and family planning benefits, caregiving resources, mental health offerings, a generous retirement program, financial guidance, paid time off, and more.

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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