BCG X

BCG X is the tech build & design unit of BCG. Turbocharging BCG's deep industry and functional expertise, BCG X brings together advanced tech knowledge and ambitious entrepreneurship to help organizations enable innovation at scale. With nearly 3,000 technologists, scientists, programmers, engineers, and human-centered designers located across 80+ cities, BCG X builds and designs platforms and software to address the world's most important challenges and opportunities. Teaming across our practices, and in close collaboration with our clients, our end-to-end global team unlocks new possibilities. Together we're creating the bold and disruptive products, services, and businesses of tomorrow.

Practice Area Profile

What You'll Do

As a part of BCG X you will work closely with consulting teams on a diverse range of advanced topics. You will have the opportunity to leverage software development methodologies to deliver value to BCG's Consulting & BCG X (case) teams, BCG X Product teams and Practice Areas (domain) through providing software developer subject matter expertise, and accelerated execution support.
You will collaborate with teams to gather requirements, specify, design, develop, deliver and support software solutions serving client needs. You will provide technical support through deeper understanding of relevant software solutions and processes to build high quality and efficient technology solutions. Assignments will range from short term Proof of concepts/Minimum viable product to long term cases with enterprise grade software development as a critical enabler through the project level description of the role responsibilities and impact within the organization.

Web Application Development:

Leading End to End high scale web-development from front including architecting, design, planning, development and deployment
Maintains a strong knowledge base of new opensource tech stacks, applications, techniques, and skills
Strong problem-solving and follow-up skills; must be proactive and take initiative
Create robust proprietary code and translate business logic into project requirements
Develop code using development best practices, and an emphasis on security best practices
Leverage technologies to support business needs to attain high reusability and maintainability of current and newly developed systems
Provide system design recommendations based on technical requirements
Write effective unit tests and integration tests to ensure high-quality software delivery

Business requirement gathering and collaboration

Collaborating with project team members in drafting prioritized business requirements documentation, including scope definition and statement of work
Working with project stakeholders to identify business needs and gather requirements for web application development
Managing team on projects while working with case teams, ensuring execution and being responsible for overall quality
Leading communication and managing workflow to ensure the consulting team's satisfaction
Establishing oneself as a go-to expert for consulting/topic teams; Guiding consulting teams in selecting a development approach; Being the Brand ambassador for web development in BCG (Proposals, Demos, PoCs, Networking with case teams, etc.)
Delivering original analysis and insights to case teams, typically owning all or part of an engagement and integrating with consulting teams
Establish credibility by thought partnering with highly demanding stakeholders / consulting teams on web development and delivery topics; drawing conclusions on a range of external and internal issues and dependencies
Communicate insights through sophisticated synthesis and packaging of results (including PPT slides and charts) with stakeholders / consulting teams; collecting, synthesizing, learnings & inputs into new best practices and methodologies
Contributes to team's content & IP development
Assisting on designing the onboarding schedule, & providing day to day apprenticeship & coaching for software engineers with guidance from Experts

Problem solving:

You should be strong in solutioning with hands-on experience in software delivery, through the entire life cycle of software development. Strong problem solving skills with the ability to develop and codify knowledge and provide appropriate technical advice where required

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

Technical Skills:

Must have strong experience in building high-performance web applications using - NodeJS, Python + Flask, Django, React, Angular, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
Leveraging SQL-Postgres for best performance
With Unix command-line tools and code repo Git
CI/CD, DevOps tools
Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform
Cloud infra architecture design (AWS, Azure, GCP) and deployment
OOPs concepts, design patterns, responsive UI and Unit testing frameworks like Mocha, Jest, Jasmine
Knowledge of Bootstrap or Material UI or And Design
Knowledge of UI component libraries to produce high-quality production apps following a high-fidelity design and a specification
Track record of designing, developing and supporting highly scalable, responsive web applications and services
Understanding of UI integration with REST APIs

And workable knowledge of:

Typescript
NoSql Databases like MongoDB
Hybrid Mobile app development using React Native or Ionic
Asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
Charting libraries like HighCharts, D3.js and Recharts
UI component libraries to produce high-quality production apps following a high-fidelity design and a specification
Basic wireframing skills

And familiar with:

C# + .NET Core / .NET Framework
Job Requirement:
Bachelor's / Master's degree in computer science engineering/technology or equivalent
Excellent communication skills and storytelling

Work Experience:

At least 5 - 9 years of end-to-end web - application/tool development experience in a commercial setup specifically services or consulting organization
* Additional weightage for contributions made to open source projects, blogs, forums etc. in relevant technologies