US/Canada - Platinion - Digital & Technology - Engineering - Software Engineer Intern

Location:

Dallas, New York, Pittsburgh

Geography:

North America

Capabilities:

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

BCG Platinion’s presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. We achieve digital excellence for clients with sustained solutions to the most complex and time-sensitive challenge. We guide clients into the future to push the status quo, overcome tech limitations, and enable our clients to go further in their digital journeys than what has ever been possible in the past. At BCG Platinion, we deliver business value through the innovative use of technology at a rapid pace. We roll up our sleeves to transform business, revolutionize approaches, satisfy customers, and change the game through Architecture, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Application and Risk functions. We balance vision with a pragmatic path to change transforming strategies into leading-edge tech platforms, at scale.

What You'll Do

At BCG Platinion, we are looking for full stack Software Engineer Interns to support the design, development, and implementation of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) for clients looking to transform in the digital space. Our ideal candidates will have exposure to solutions architecture and core engineering experience within web applications, mobile optimized solutions, some data analytics experience, and/or cloud to support creation of beautiful, state of the art products for our clients.

Software Engineer Interns at BCG Platinion are:

Iterative. They are excited to prototype at all levels of fidelity—and have the humility to walk away from ideas when they fail.
Collaborative. They have the ability and enthusiasm to work with researchers, engineers, business consultants, and other designers who will all challenge and support each other.
Comfortable with ambiguity. They know projects and businesses move fast. That means the path forward isn’t always well-defined. They are comfortable and collaborative through our process.

Responsibilities:

At BCG Platinion, you will:

· Support the build of technology products and systems at varying levels of fidelity and scale from lightweight mock-ups to MVPs.

· Demonstrate technical skill and/or content knowledge in a discipline or field. Use state-of-the-art methodologies, tools, and best practices.

· Provide a high level of quality on all work performed.

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

Successful Software Engineers at BCG Platinion Possess:

· Pursuing a bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or related field

· Knowledge of when to proactively seek help and learn from critique/failures.

· Strong interpersonal skills, analytical skills, combined with intellectual curiosity, and a desire and ability to "get things done"

Additional Desired Competencies:

Experience in one or more of the following:

Web technology and JavaScript frameworks such as AngularJS and ReactJS
Scripting and object-oriented languages, e.g. Java, Python, and C#
Web services and message formats such as JSON, XML
Cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure as well as managed services on those platforms such as Beanstalk, Lambda, etc.
Mobile languages and frameworks such as Objective-C, ReactNative, and Java
Relational and noSQL databases
Emerging technology like AR/VR, IIoT, AI, Blockchain.
Data science and visualization applications such as Hadoop, Databricks, Spark, d3.js

What to include on your resume:

· A link to your portfolio/Git repository that demonstrates your affinity for software engineering and shows how you approach digital challenges

BCG Platinion launched in Germany in 2000 to add deep technical expertise to the Boston Consulting Group’s existing capabilities. Today, our presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. Our New York-based North American team began in 2014 and in 2017 acquired MAYA Design, a Pittsburgh-based digital design and innovation lab, to grow our capabilities around technology and design.

We support our clients’ total digital transformation through digital and technology, design, cybersecurity, and risk management & financial engineering capabilities. And together with BCG, BCG Platinion’s interdisciplinary team of technical experts enable customized technical solutions and accelerate delivery value through new business platforms, application consolidations, and major system.

Date Posted:

14-May-2019

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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