US/Canada - Platinion - Digital & Technology - Engineering - Maintenance Engineer

Job Description

Location:

Pittsburgh

Geography:

North America

Capabilities:

Technology & digital

Industries:

Technology industries

About Us

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.
To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

Practice Area Profile

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 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 implementations.

Role Profile

• Research and develop technology vision and architecture for web, mobile, data, BPM, and related digital capabilities
• Research new technologies and develop prototypes, MVPs, and POCs
• Participate in ideation and brainstorming sessions to devise creative and disruptive digital solutions
• Build digital apps, APIs, and data solutions to drive digital transformation projects
• Solve technology and usability challenges
• Promote Agile principles and methodologies
• Work on multiple client prototypes at the same time
• P articipate in midsize to large projects
• Establishing a sustainable pace for team's work, ensuring on-time delivery of product and projects, partnering with Product, Design, and Data teams, and providing weekly status reports to client team

Your Qualifications

· Professional software development experience

· A bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent professional experience

· Experience working in teams utilizing Agile development methods and tools

· Entry- to mid-level experience within one or more of the following: ES6/ES5, React, React Native, Node, Angular, JQuery

· Entry- to mid-level experience within one or more of the following: Javascript, Python, Scala, Java

· Solid foundation in one or more of the following:

• data structures, algorithms, and OO Design with rock-solid programming skills
• CSS, motion design and usability experience
• API skills (e.g. Express/Node, GraphQL/Relay, Flask, Jersey, Java Spring REST or WebApi2)
• RDBMS experience (data modeling, analysis, programming, stored procedures)

· Experience with statistical modeling and analysis

· Proven success working in and promoting a rapidly changing, collaborative, and iterative product development environment

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

· Practical experience in one or more of the following:

• Data science and visualization (Hadoop, Spark, Databricks, Drill, Tableau)
• Predictive analytics and machine learning (scikit-learn, Tensorflow, Mahout, recommendation systems)
• NoSQL databases and modeling (Cassandra & MongoDB)
• Scaled apps in the cloud: Amazon AWS EC2, Google Computer Engine
• iOS: Objective-C or Swift
• Industries such as FinTech, insurance, Pharmaceutical, healthcare, retail, telecom, luxury brands

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:

01-Aug-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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