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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
- Proven expertise in developing pixel perfect UI, with proficiency in React, Angular, TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
- Strong JavaScript (ES6) expertise
- Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming principles and design patterns to create scalable and maintainable code.
- Experience in writing robust unit tests with JavaScript testing frameworks.
- Familiarity with UI frameworks such as Material UI, Ant Design, or similar libraries, enabling the creation of high-quality, production-ready applications that closely follow high-fidelity designs and specifications.
- Demonstrated ability to design, develop, and maintain highly scalable and responsive web applications.
- Proficiency in integrating REST APIs with front-end applications, ensuring seamless data exchange and functionality.
- Familiarity with Progressive Web Applications (PWA) development is highly desirable, showcasing an ability to deliver app-like experiences within the browser with offline capabilities, push notifications, and improved performance.
Working knowledge
- Unix command-line tools and code repo Git
- CI/CD, DevOps tools
- UI component libraries to produce high-quality production apps following a high-fidelity design and a specification.
Nice to have and considered as plus
- Competency in basic wireframing techniques for initial UI design stages.
- Proficiency in utilizing charting libraries such as D3.js, HighCharts, Maps libraries and Recharts for advanced data visualization tasks.
- Knowledge in developing cross-platform mobile applications using frameworks like React Native, Flutter, or Ionic.
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes for application containerization and orchestration, enhancing deployment processes and scalability
What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)
Job requirement:
- Bachelor's / Master's degree in computer science engineering/technology or equivalent
- Excellent communication skills
- 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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Our technology consultants and specialists partner with our clients and colleagues to build and implement digital solutions through a broad spectrum of activities. Technology jobs and engineering jobs include design of IT architectures, large-scale transformation, agile development, Software Engineering, cybersecurity consulting, and risk management.
