Job Description

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.

Practice Area Profile

BCG GAMMA combines innovative skills in computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), statistics, and machine learning with deep industry and functional expertise. The BCG GAMMA team is comprised of world-class data scientists, software and data engineers, as well as product experts with a consulting mindset. We specialize in creating competitive advantage for our clients through AI driven transformations. Our teams own the full analytics value-chain end to end: framing new business challenges, designing innovative algorithms, implementing and deploying scalable solutions, and enabling colleagues and clients to fully embrace AI. Our product offerings span from fully custom-build to industry specific leading edge AI software solutions.

What You'll Do

As a forward-deployed Lead Software Engineer you’ll be part of our rapidly growing engineering team and help to build the next generation of AI solutions. You’ll have the chance to partner with clients in a variety of BCG regions and industries, and on key topics like climate change, enabling them to design, build, and deploy new and innovative solutions. Additional responsibilities will include developing and delivering thought leadership in scientific communities and papers as well as leading conferences on behalf of BCG GAMMA. WHO YOU ARE We are looking for talented individuals with a real passion for software development, large-scale data analytics and transforming organizations into AI led innovative companies .

• Apply software development practices and standards to develop robust and maintainable software
• Develop abstract analytic models to solve complex problems for decision analysis
• Maintain an active role in every part of the software development life cycle
• Help mentor and guide junior developers
• Guide non-technical teams and consultants in understanding analytics at scale, infrastructure as code and best practices for robust software development
• Optimize and enhance computational efficiency of algorithms and software design
• Design data structures and visualization of results to provide users actionable intelligence and situational awareness of supporting data
• Interact directly with clients on new features for future product releases
• Provide thought leadership to software design and solutions

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

YOU BRING

• Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 8+ years of experience in a software development environment, previous consulting experience and/or strong leadership positions
• Experience in software development and working with global and remote agile squads
• Proficiency with analytic software programming ideally in python, C++, or SCALA
• Familiarity with the storage, manipulation, and management of relational, non-relational and streaming data structures
• Understanding of parallel computing
• Experience working on AWS, Azure, or Google cloud infrastructure

NICE TO HAVE

• Full stack development: GraphQL, React, JavaScript, TypeScript
• DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform
• Data: SQL, Spark, Hadoop
• Data Science and machine learning (Pandas, Scikit learn)