GAMMA - Software Engineer Intern

Location:

Boston

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.

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

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 X‘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 Software Engineer Intern, you will help advance software solutions and analytics to support BCG GAMMA’s analytics platform and clients. Our teams strong analytical skills and ability to develop innovative problem solving solutions will support mission critical decision analytics for our Fortune 500 clients.  Additional responsibilities will include developing feature enhancements to our platform, developing industry-leading analytics software solutions and methodologies and provide talks and papers in industry leading conferences on behalf of BCG GAMMA.  We're looking for talented individuals with a serious interest in software development, data science, large data analytics and transforming organizations into analytics led innovative companies.  As a new division in process of creating an innovative platform, we have many opportunities available throughout our BCG GAMMA team.  

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
Learning how to apply leading software development practices and standards to develop robust and maintainable software
Assist in the development of abstract analytic models to solve complex problems for decision analysis
Maintain a role in the software development life cycle
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
Share software design and solutions ideas
Communicate technical design verbally and written

Location of position: Boston, MA

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

Pursuing BS or MS in Computer Research Science, Statistics, Operations Research, or related field and set to graduate December 2019 of Spring of 2020
Familiarity with analytic software programming ideally in python, c++, or scala
Familiarity with data science methods and scaling data science methods 
Proficiency with infrastructure as code principles
Familiarity with the storage, manipulation and management of relational, non-relational and streaming data structures
Analytic reasoning and complex problem solving involving mathematical programming and big data problems
Understanding of parallel computing

STRONGLY PREFERRED:
The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, start-up like development environment
Experience in GO and/or Python 3
Exposure to analytics applications or experience building analytics tools (for example, familiarity with tensorflow, h20.ai, orange)

WORK ENVIRONMENT:
• Fast-paced, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment
• Position will be based out of Boston with travel expected

Date Posted:

21-Sep-2018

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