US/C Gamma X (Forward-Deployed Senior Data Engineer)

Location:

Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Washington, D.C.

Geography:

North America

Capabilities:

Big data & advanced analytics, Innovation & product development, 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

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 Senior Data Engineer, you’ll be part of our rapidly growing engineering team and help 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 passion for data engineering, software development and transforming organizations into AI led innovative companies.

Apply data engineering practices and standards to develop robust and maintainable solutions
Actively involved in every part of the software development life cycle
Experienced at guiding non-technical teams and consultants in best practices for large-scale data engineering
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 with at least 5 years of experience. Advanced degrees may be weighted towards years of experience
Experience in data engineering and working with global and remote agile squads
Proficiency with analytic software programming ideally in python, C++, or SCALA
Fluency with the storage, manipulation, and management of relational, non-relational and streaming data structures, specifically SQL, Spark, and Hadoop
Proficiency with infrastructure as code principles
Experience working on AWS, Azure, or Google cloud infrastructure

NICE TO HAVE

DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform
Understanding of parallel computing
Full stack development: GraphQL, React, JavaScript, TypeScript
Data Science and machine learning (Pandas, Scikit learn)

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.

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%

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 first year base compensation for this role is $190,000 in USD.

In addition to your base salary, you will also be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus and BCG’s Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution. BCG also provides a market leading benefits package described below.

At BCG, we are committed to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes everything our employees and their families need to be well and live life to the fullest. We pay the full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees – and their eligible family members.* That’s zero dollars in premiums taken from employee paychecks. All our plans provide best in class coverage:

- Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children
- Low $5 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs
- Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 (USD) in orthodontia benefits
- Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually
- Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities
- Fully vested retirement contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not
- Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, and annual office closure between Christmas and New Years
- Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement
*Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.

Date Posted:

01-Mar-2022

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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