GAMMA - Lead Analytics Platform Architect

Location:

Boston, Calgary, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Washington, D.C.

Geography:

North America

Capabilities:

Big data & advanced analytics, Technology & digital

Industries:

Technology industries

Who We Are

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.

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Practice Area Profile

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 help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

Given the technical specialization needed for this role, it will be housed within BCG X, BCG’s cutting-edge group of computer science, statistics, AI and machine learning experts with deep industry expertise. These teams own the full analytics and product development value-chain end to end: framing new business challenges, building fact-bases, designing innovative algorithms, creating scale through designing tools and apps, and training colleagues and clients in new solutions. While housed within BCG X, This role will partner closely with our BCG Tech Capital commercial due diligence consulting teams to drive insights across integrated commercial and product diligences with close alignment with our Principal Investors and Private Equity Practice.

What You'll Do

OVERVIEW OF BCG GAMMA ENGINEERING:

The BCG GAMMA Engineering team is building the next generation of analytics tools. With your help, BCG GAMMA will develop a platform that fuels BCG GAMMA‘s global data and analytics offerings. Data scientists depend on easy to use interfaces to easily code, increase productivity, answer questions, and envision their results. 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.  BCG GAMMA‘s goal is to help our clients understand what their data means and provide them the tools to share its narrative with various audiences.   


POSITION SUMMARY:

As a valuable asset to our own case teams and to our clients, you’ll be helping BCG and its clients move forward while helping them solve difficult technology problems. You will support our Principal Analytics Platform Architect to help clients define what platform means to them, and design their ideal solution.  Again assisting our Principal Architect on the implementation while mentoring and guiding engineers (BCG and client engineers) to make the platform a reality. 


Responsibilities:

Support organizational changes in regards to capability development, restructuring toward product-centric team models, and transitioning to modern agile SDLC practices

Communicate technical decisions to non-technical audiences and build consensus around them

Build strong stakeholder relationships and foster interaction at different levels

Manage priorities and be first line of support to our Principal Analytics Platform Architect in high stakes scenarios


 



What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

Bachelor‘s degree in related field with advanced degree preferred and preference on CS degree Cloud native architecture principles
8+ years of professional experience 
Containerization and PaaS approaches and tools (e.g., Docker EE, OpenShift, Kubernetes)
Domain-driven factoring of service interfaces using domain modeling, event storming, and other techniques
Delivery infrastructure buildout (e.g. CI, deployment orchestration, observability, and A/B test infrastructure)
Modern security practices
Modern API platform design
Modern data architectures (e.g. event driven architectures, stream processing, and integrating real time analytics into customer applications)
Travel  requirements : Expected 40% - 75%

STRONGLY PREFERRED:
Experience guiding teams in addressing the technical and delivery challenges in migrating away from monolithic systems to a modern services architecture
Ability to provide hands-on guidance to teams with an emphasis on strong layering and isolation practices and effective test strategies
Proven success supporting the implementation of delivery pipelines with modern delivery technologies
Experience working with global and remote teams
Certified AWS Architect.
Experience with Open Source tools such as github, circleci, and terraform 
4+ years of experience with Linux, server automation and scripting.
2+ years of experience with Container technology using Docker.
2+ years of experience with OOP concepts and 3+ years of experience with modern scripting languages and frameworks.
2+ years of experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk or SumoLogic.
Team lead or mentorship experience, Experience working with global and remote teams


Date Posted:

21-Sep-2018

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