BCG - Boston Consulting Group
GAMMA - Associate Director, Engineering
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Practice Area Profile
What You'll Do
OVERVIEW OF GAMMA ENGINEERING:
The Gamma Engineering team is building the next generation of analytics tools. Clients need to easily interact with our analytics applications to measure the success of their new analytics enabled organization or quickly make decisions based on what and how they see analytic output. Our clients will use our analytics solutions to derive insights around business trends. We “open the doors” to data for our clients giving them fast and trusted options to search, frame, and share data.
POSITION SUMMARY:
BCG Gamma is seeking an Associate Director - Engineering to join our team. The ideal candidate will have industry experience working on a range of different software and product disciplines. The position will involve taking these skills and applying them to some of the most exciting and massive data and analytics problems across multiple industries. We are looking for leaders to join the engineering effort in our teams in our European hubs, building large scale analytics products.
You will be bridging the gap between business and engineering, and functioning with deep expertise in both worlds. As a strong engineering leader and an expert in building complex systems, you will be responsible for transforming how we use technology to increase the performance of our clients.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Bring bleeding edge data science models into production together with a highly multi-disciplinary team of scientist, engineers, partners, product managers and subject domain experts
· Build scalable analytics software platforms and products
· Apply software development practices and standards to develop robust and maintainable software
· 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
· Provide thought leadership to software design and solutions
OVERVIEW OF GAMMA ENGINEERING:
The Gamma Engineering team is building the next generation of analytics tools. Clients need to easily interact with our analytics applications to measure the success of their new analytics enabled organization or quickly make decisions based on what and how they see analytic output. Our clients will use our analytics solutions to derive insights around business trends. We “open the doors” to data for our clients giving them fast and trusted options to search, frame, and share data.
POSITION SUMMARY:
BCG Gamma is seeking an Associate Director - Engineering to join our team. The ideal candidate will have industry experience working on a range of different software and product disciplines. The position will involve taking these skills and applying them to some of the most exciting and massive data and analytics problems across multiple industries. We are looking for leaders to join the engineering effort in our teams in our European hubs, building large scale analytics products.
You will be bridging the gap between business and engineering, and functioning with deep expertise in both worlds. As a strong engineering leader and an expert in building complex systems, you will be responsible for transforming how we use technology to increase the performance of our clients.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Bring bleeding edge data science models into production together with a highly multi-disciplinary team of scientist, engineers, partners, product managers and subject domain experts
· Build scalable analytics software platforms and products
· Apply software development practices and standards to develop robust and maintainable software
· 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
· Provide thought leadership to software design and solutions
What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)
• Computer science or relevant degree
• 9+ years of experience in algorithms, data structures, object-oriented programming, and in software development environment
• Hands on leadership; you get the importance of taking people with you along the journey and are able to influence and coach those around you to orchestrate team success.
• Excellent communication skills
• Exposure to analytics applications or experience building analytics tools
• Proven ability to deploy complex analytics systems and operate them at scale
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code principles
• Analytic reasoning and complex problem solving involving mathematical programming and big data problems
• Management/team lead experience, experience working with global and remote teams
• Experience guiding teams in addressing the technical and delivery challenges
• Experience working directly with the business to translate business requirements into product capabilities
TECHNOLOGIES:
• Programming languages such as: Java, Scala, C++, Python
• Data: Hadoop, Spark, MongoDB, Neo4j, Redis
• Deep learning: Tensorflow, Keras
• Cloud: AWS/Azure/Google
• DevOps: Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Terraform, unix-based command line
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