Principal Engineer
- The Boston Consulting
- 8 - 11 years
- Mumbai
- 3 years ago
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Job Description
What Youll Do
- Iterating: You are excited to prototype at all levels of fidelity and have the humility to walk away from ideas when they fail.
- Collaborating: You have the ability and enthusiasm to work with researchers, engineers, business consultants, and other designers who will all challenge and support each other.
- Working with ambiguity: You know projects and businesses move fast. That means the path forward isn t always well-defined. You are comfortable and collaborative through our process.
- [10+] years experience in software development, ideally in digital delivery or technology consulting
- Expertise in key aspects of software engineering such as architecture, security, scalability, performance, and usability
- A combination of consulting experience and/or client facing experience with, solutions architecture, and core engineering experience
- Experience with software engineering standards, unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, and continuous integration
- Full stack proficiency, experience in creating and consuming solutions for mobile and desktop
- Development skills in front-end and back-end programming languages (e.g. Java, PHP, Python, Golang, JavaScript, CSS, HTML)
- Experience working in an Agile development environment and analytical skills and problem-solving ability, including the ability to research and trouble-shoot application issues
- Demonstrable experience in instrumenting applications acting on the outputs
- Consistent record of evaluating and designing scalable web, API and Windows Services
- Expert understanding of how web applications work
- Excellent knowledge of database systems and programming patterns standards - especially related to web development
- Strong collaboration skills across small and large project teams (QA, outside vendors, project managers, business sponsors, design teams) as well as strong verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated personal ownership of tasks and tenacious approach to finding and fixing the root cause of issues
- Experience in shaping an engineering community focused on sharing and growing knowledge
- Experienced working closely with DevOps engineers.
- An understanding of data science and visualization applications such as Hadoop, Databricks, Spark, d3.js
- Strong understanding of technical project leadership, with specific focus on systems thinking and Agile methods and principles
- Experience working with both technical and non-technical colleagues in a cross-functional, interdisciplinary environment, including strong written and verbal communication skills
- Passion and interest in researching new technologies and developing prototypes, POCs, and MVPs
- Knowledge around AI/machine learning, cognitive computing, NLP/speech recognition
- Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and OO design with strong programming skills
- Experience leading groups of engineers, evaluating performance, and providing feedback
- Ability to lead ideation and brainstorming sessions to devise creative and disruptive digital solutions, demonstrate work to executive stakeholders, transfer knowledge and product support to client development teams
- Ability to bring unique tech perspectives from outside the consulting industry into BCGs typical engagements, requiring:
- Consulting experience [Desirable]
- Strategic mindset (hypothesis driven, 80:20 mindset, iterative approach, activist stance)
- Self-management
- Leadership potential to transform the consulting industry in particular around interaction with designers, architects and product owners
- Progressing thought leadership in deep tech
- New (but proven) methodologies or ways of working
- Experience working with both technical and non-technical colleagues in a cross-functional, interdisciplinary environment, including strong written and verbal communication skills
- University degree with above-average academic performance in a mathematical-scientific field, information technology, or business administration
- Passion and interest in researching new technologies and developing prototypes, POCs, and MVPs.
Job Classification
Industry: Management ConsultingFunctional Area: Engineering - Software,
Role Category: Software Development
Role: Software Development
Employement Type: Full time
Education
Under Graduation: Any GraduatePost Graduation: Any Postgraduate
Doctorate: Any Doctorate
Contact Details:
Company: The Boston ConsultingLocation(s): Mumbai
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Keyskills: Data Science Java Software Development Algorithms Software Engineering Data Structures Javascript Full Stack Machine Learning Python
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