Software Engineering Director - X Delivery

About the job

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 work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact.

Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.

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

BCG X develops AI‐driven solutions for the Fortune 500 in their highest‐value use cases. The BCG X Solutions & Enablers group productizes repeat use‐cases, creating both reusable components as well as single‐tenant and multi‐tenant SaaS offerings that are commercialized through the BCG consulting business. BCG X Solutions & Enablers is currently looking for an Engineering Technical Director to drive impact and change for the firm’s engineering and analytics engine and bring new products to BCG clients globally.

This will include:

• Serving as a leader within BCG X and specifically the KEY and OrgBuilder tribes (transformation and people management related software and data products), overseeing the delivery of high-quality software: Leading 3+ squads; driving technical vision and mentoring 15-30+ engineers
• Influencing and serving as a key decision maker in BCG X Solutions & Enablers technology selection & strategy
• Playing an active “hands-on” role, building intelligent analytical products to solve problems, writing elegant code, and iterating quickly
• Overall responsibility for the engineering and architecture alignment of all solutions delivered within the tribe, including the technology roadmap of existing and new components delivered.
• Implementing, measuring and reporting on the execution strategy defined for the team. Execution includes delivery of planned work, with deliverables that meet company standards with respect to quality, scalability, and reliability. Effectively communicates with key stakeholders when either scope or timeline of projects require modification.
• Appropriately allocating teams to the highest value investments per business backlog and release planning. Formulating and communicating mitigation strategies for long running projects, or projects where risk is high.
• Driving the engineering squads’ overall productivity and effectiveness while maintaining team psychological safety and morale.
• Fluency to manage and deliver backend and frontend solutions using .NET, Angular, and other technologies best-suited for the goals, including open source i.e. Node, Django, Flask, Python
• Defining consistent processes and standard practices within the tribes, relating but not limited to software development, coding, and quality assurance; with an emphasis on continuous improvement, staying contemporary, and leveraging Agile development and other leading-edge best practices
• Interfacing with Product Management, experts, senior stakeholders, and other business teams for project requirements and scope
  
  

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

• Master’s degree and/or MBA preferred
• 14+ years of technology and software engineering in a complex and fast-paced business environment (ideally an agile environment) with exposure to a variety of technologies and solutions, with at least 5 year’ experience in a leadership role.
• Experience with a wide range of Data architectures, platforms and tools including: Service Oriented Architecture, Software as a Service, Web Services, Object-Oriented Languages (like C# or Java), SQL Databases (like Oracle or SQL Server), Relational, Non-relational Databases, Hands on experience with analytics tools and reporting tools, Data Science experience etc.
• Thoroughly up to date in technology:
• Modern cloud architectures including AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes
• Open source stacks including NodeJs, React, Angular, Flask
• CI/CD / DevSecOps / GitOps toolchains and development approaches
• Knowledge in machine learning & AI frameworks
• Big data pipelines and systems: Spark, Snowflake, Kafka, Redshift, Synapse, Airflow
• Team player with excellent work habits and interpersonal skills
• Care deeply about product quality, reliability, and scalability
• Passion about the people and culture side of engineering teams
• Experience leading high-performing global engineering teams
• Outstanding written and oral communications skills
• The ability to travel, depending on project requirements