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's X Delivery team 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 & X (case) teams, 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.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

Web Application Development

End to End high scale web-development experience but not just limited to 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
Work independently on development tasks with minimal supervision
Write effective unit tests and integration tests to ensure high-quality software delivery

Business requirement gathering and collaboration

Owning all or part of a software development engagement and integrating with cross-functional teams
Establish credibility by thought partnering with 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
Executing software development approach and creating defined outcome; contributing to approach selection
Ensure proper sign-off before uploading materials into internal repository for reference; sanitizing confidential client content in marketing documents
Able to build and sustain relationships with consulting MDPs to generate project work by self-leveraging regular connects
Guides juniors on advanced software concepts and platforms, and helps in quality checks
Contributes to team's content & IP development
Imparts technical trainings to team members and consulting cohort

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

Technical Skills:

Must have

Experience in building high-performance web applications using - Python - (Django, Flask, FastAPI), React, Angular, TypeScript, HTML5 and CSS3
Leveraging SQL-Postgres for best performance
On OOPs concepts, design patterns, responsive UI and Unit testing frameworks like Mockito, Junit, Jest.
Knowledge of 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
Integrate UI with REST APIs to make the app production-ready
Working knowledge

Unix command-line tools and code repo Git
CI/CD, DevOps tools
Cloud infra architecture design (Azure, GCP, Oracle) and deployment using Kubernetes
UI component libraries to produce high-quality production apps following a high-fidelity design and a specification
Nice to have and considered as plus

Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes
File Storage and NoSql Databases like MongoDB
Charting libraries like HighCharts, D3.js and Recharts
Basic wireframing skills
Python+ flask, Django, Jupyter notebook knowledge
Hybrid Mobile app development using React Native or Ionic

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

Job Requirement:

Bachelor's / Master's degree in computer science engineering/technology or equivalent
Excellent communication skills

Work Experience:

At least 4-6 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

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