Forward-Deployed Software Engineer

Location:

Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, 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.

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

As a forward-deployed 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
  • Actively involved in every part of the software development life cycle
  • Experienced at guiding non-technical teams and consultants in and standard methodologies  for robust software development
  • Optimize and improve  computational efficiency of algorithms and software design
  • Motivated by a fast-paced, service-oriented environment and interacting directly with clients on new features for future product releases
  • Enjoy collaborating in teams to share software design and solution ideas
  • A natural problem-solver and intellectually curious across a breadth of industries and topics

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

YOU BRING

  • Degree in Computer Science or relevant field 
  • Relevant internships or up to 5 years of industry work experience
  • 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)  

WORK ENVIRONMENT

  • Fluency in English is required as well as fluency in the local language for some locations
  • Ability to travel based on client and business needs. Expect 30-50%

The BCG GAMMA team is a community of world-class data scientists and business consultants who specialize in the use of advanced analytics to get breakthrough business results. Your colleagues will combine innovative skillsets in computer science, artificial intelligence, statistics and machine learning with deep industry expertise. You will work with teams to own the full analytics 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.

WHAT WE OFFER YOU 

At BCG, we care about our people, and offer best in class benefits to support you personally and professionally throughout your different life experiences including:
  • Attractive insurance package covering 100% of the premiums for medical, dental and vision coverage.
  • Access to affordable medical and behavioral health care via phone, online video and mobile visits as a partner of Teladoc, the largest provider of telehealth consultations in the US
  • Generous parental leave and family planning and support benefits throughout your journey to grow your family including coverage of elective egg freezing and in-vitro-fertilization, as well as surrogacy and adoption reimbursement programs.  We also partner with Bright Horizons to offer emergency back-care programs. 
  • Growing presence in the tech community and ability to expand your network by participating in large industry conferences including Grace Hopper, SXSW, Women Who Code and more! 
  • Health perks like free access to Headspace, fitness reimbursements, and more 
  • A best in class workplace ranked multiple years in the top 10 of “Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to work for,” recognized as the #1 company where women are happiest by Fairygodboss and ranked by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) as one the “Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality.”
*Benefits listed may vary depending on the country where you work.


FOR U.S. APPLICANTS: Boston Consulting Group ("BCG") is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

The state of Colorado requires BCG to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to individuals applying to work in our Denver office and takes into account a number of factors. A reasonable estimate of the range for this role is $90,000 - $175,000 dependent on role and experience..

BCG offers a comprehensive benefits program, including medical, dental and vision coverage, telemedicine services, life, accident and disability insurance, parental leave and family planning benefits, caregiving resources, mental health offerings, a generous retirement program, financial guidance, paid time off, and more.

Date Posted:

16-Dec-2021

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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