Senior AI Tech Consultant – Telecommunications – London | BCG Platinion

Overview

As a Senior AI Tech Consultant in BCG Platinion’s Telco practice, you guide complex tech and transformation initiatives from problem structuring to executive recommendations. You will work with client leadership and cross-functional teams to prioritise AI value, build roadmaps, and scale GenAI and agentic solutions. Your impact spans modernising telco platforms, improving digital experiences, and enabling cloud-based engineering delivery. This role offers hands-on architecture-to-delivery influence with senior stakeholders in a fast-paced transformation context.

Responsibilities

• Structure problems and develop hypotheses for client engagements
• Translate analyses into executive recommendations
• Lead workstreams across telco platforms, digital experience, cloud transformation, and GenAI initiatives
• Coach junior colleagues and support proposals and client relationships
• Governance, value tracking, risk management and programme assessment for implementations
• Facilitate client workshops and articulate actionable roadmaps and business cases

Key requirements

• 6–10 years of technology consulting or related experience
• Strong telco industry knowledge and CSP exposure
• Experience in multiple areas: telco platforms, digital experience, cloud/engineering transformation, GenAI/agentic transformation, operating models, or tech economics
• Understanding of GenAI applications and responsible AI considerations
• Ability to develop roadmaps and executive recommendations; strong stakeholder management
• University degree in STEM or business; MBA/MSc advantageous
• Excellent English communication skills
• Independent workstream management and team coaching

• strong problem-solving and hypothesis-driven thinking
• leadership and coaching
• collaboration and stakeholder management
• Telco platforms modernization
• cloud strategies and DevSecOps
• AI-enabled software delivery

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