Principal Software Engineer - Platinion Paris

Location:

Paris

Geography:

Europe & The Middle East

Capabilities:

Big data & advanced analytics, Technology & digital

Industries:

Engineered products & infrastructure, 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 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 venturesand 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.

BCG Platinion

As a seamlessly integrated part of the BCG network, we provide consulting services focused on the development and implementation of business-critical IT architecture and digital solutions. We create technology platforms and deliver exceptionally customized solutions of the future for our clients, from data strategies to next-generation customer journey solutions and transformational business models. We solve the most daunting challenges that companies face today and envision for tomorrow. Our style is entrepreneurial nimble and innovative, with multifaceted, cross-functional teams and completely vendor-independent. Our unique selling proposition is technology expertise and delivery excellence.

Platinion was founded in 2000. Since then, we have grown continuously and successfully. Today we have offices in Europe, North and South America, Asia Pacific and Africa.

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.

What You'll Do

At BCG Platinion we're keen to engage with experienced, passionate and creative Senior Software Engineers who will help us unlock our client's digital potential and ignite change. Meaningful work is at the core of everything we do. We build unique solutions to the complexities our clients face, while providing our people with opportunities to explore and grow. A community of leading experts, BCG Platinion team members have a natural springboard for professional growth and deeper opportunities to excel.

We need you - a talented Principal Engineer across several disciplines to join us in building transformative digital solutions for our clients using the latest emerging technology. You'll lead the design, development, and implementation of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs), data pipelines, and full-stack customer journeys.

As a Principal Engineer, you will work closely with clients to understand their issues, define digital strategies, architecture & engineering solutions, win buy-in for your recommendations, and collaborate with BCG colleagues to transform client potential into performance. You will solve technology and usability challenges daily and be responsible for building an engineering center of excellence within BCG Platinion and within our clients. You will lead cross discipline engineering teams in large, complex enterprise environments and drive operational and client service excellence. You will drive the engineering function end-to-end: establish culture, develop talent, ensure employee satisfaction, provide direction, establish sustainable pace for team's work, and ensure on-time delivery of product and projects. You will help your teams flourish through thought leadership, team mentoring, business development and clients will seek your

advice on business issues that extend beyond the immediate scope of your project work.

As part of our BCG Platinion consulting team, you would work on a variety of technology topics, applying your engineering consulting skills to strategic technology challenges. You'll be supported by an extensive training curriculum (the same programme as all BCG consultants), plus technology-specific training and mentoring to build your skills.

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

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, 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) 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.

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 BCG's typical engagements, requiring:

v Required consulting experience

v Strategic mindset (hypothesis driven, 80:20 mindset, iterative approach, activist stance)

v Self-management

Leadership potential to transform the consulting industry around interaction with designers, architects and product owners

v Progressing thought leadership in deep tech

v 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

Date Posted:

09-Sep-2020

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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