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Practice Area Profile
OVERVIEW OF GAMMA ENGINEERING:
The GAMMA Engineering team is building the next generation of analytics tools. With your help, GAMMA Engineering will develop a platform that fuels BCG GAMMA‘s global data and analytics offerings. Data scientists depend on easy to use interfaces to easily code, increase productivity, answer questions, and envision their results. Clients need to easily interact with our analytics applications to measure the success of their new analytics enabled organization or quickly make decisions based on what and how they see analytic output. Our clients will use our analytics solutions to derive insights around business trends. We “open the doors” to data for our clients giving them fast and trusted options to search, frame, and share data. GAMMA‘s goal is to help our clients understand what their data means and provide them the tools to share its narrative with various audiences.
What You’ll Do
APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 6, 2021
POSITION SUMMARY:
As an AI Software Engineer, you will be responsible for advancing software solutions and analytics to support BCG GAMMA’s analytics platform and clients. Your strong analytical skills and ability to develop innovative problem solving solutions will support mission critical decision analytics for our Fortune 500 clients. Additional responsibilities will include developing feature enhancements to our platform, developing industry-leading analytics software solutions and methodologies and provide talks and papers in industry leading conferences on behalf of BCG GAMMA. We’re looking for talented individuals with a serious commitment to software development, data science, large data analytics and transforming organizations into analytics led innovative companies. As a new division in process of creating an innovative platform, we have many opportunities available throughout our GAMMA team.
BASIC JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Apply leading software development practices and standards to develop robust and maintainable software
- Develop abstract analytic models to solve complex problems for decision analysis
- Maintain an active role in every part of the software development life cycle
- Contribute in guiding non-technical teams and consultants in understanding analytics at scale, infrastructure as code and best practices for robust software development
- Optimize and enhance computational efficiency of algorithms and software design
- Design data structures and visualization of results to provide users actionable intelligence and situational awareness of supporting data
- Interact directly with clients on new features for future product releases
- Share software design and solutions ideas
- Communicate technical design verbally and written
What You’ll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)
BASIC JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- Pursuing a MS in Computer Research Science, Statistics, Operations Research, or related field
- Proficiency with analytic software programming ideally in python, c++, or scala
- Familiarity with data science methods and scaling data science methods
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code principles
- Familiarity with the storage, manipulation and management of relational, non-relational and streaming data structures
- Analytic reasoning and complex problem solving involving mathematical programming and big data problems
- Understanding of parallel computing
STRONGLY PREFERRED:
- Thriving in a fast-paced, start-up like development environment
- Experience in GO and/or Python 3
- Experience with Hashicorp Vault, Terraform & Consul
- Exposure to analytics applications or experience building analytics tools (for example, familiarity with tensorflow, h20.ai, orange)
- Technical and functional expertise, problem solving, analytical skills and decision making
- Interpersonal/communication skills are required, such as:
- Self-motivated, takes initiative, possesses creative problem-solving skills and willingness to offer suggestions for improvement; builds relationships to leverage resources
- Demonstrated diligence, attention to detail and technical intuition.
- Service-oriented, flexible, positive team player
- Possesses organization skills and composure: ability to handle competing priorities and to work effectively in a challenging fast paced environment
- Exercises judgment in managing confidential/sensitive information; trustworthy
- Leadership, impact and change
- Work management, organization and planning
- Customer and business focus, people management, values and ethics
- Must be able to perform successfully in a fast-paced, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment and to interpret rules and guidelines flexibly to enhance the business and in keeping with BCG’s values and culture
- Experience working successfully within a complex matrix structured organization is essential.
- It is necessary to have the ability to understand and manage complex reporting relationships and incorporate multiple labor laws and cultures.
Who You’ll Work With
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- Fast-paced, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment
- Summer internship based in either Boston, Los Angeles or Toronto
- Expect up to 40% – 75% of time spent traveling
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 federal, state or local law, where applicable.