Data Engineer - X Delivery

Who We Are

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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

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 data engineering techniques to deliver value to BCG's Consulting & BCG X (case) teams, BCG X Product teams and Practice Areas (domain).
You will collaborate with teams to gather requirements, specify, design, develop, deliver and support industrialized solutions serving client needs. You will provide technical support through deep understanding of relevant tools and processes to build high quality and efficient technology solutions.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

Technical Skills:

Must have strong experience:
• Python
• Cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.)
• Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, etc.)
• NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Neo4j, Redis, etc)
• Spark or other distributed big data systems (Hadoop, Pig, Hive, etc.)
• Stream-processing frameworks (e.g. Kafka)
• Data pipeline orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, etc.)
• Unix-based command line & development tools
• Version control (e.g. Git)

Nice to have:
• Java, Scala
• Flask, FastAPI, Django or NodeJS (BACKEND)
• CI/CD tools (CircleCI, Octopus deploy, Jenkins, etc.)
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.)
• Deployment (Helm charts, Octopus Deploy, etc.)
• Monitoring tools (Datadog, New Relic, App Dynamics, etc.)
• Security tools (sonarqube, Veracode)
• Unit testing frameworks (Pytest, Mocha, Jest, etc.)
• Automated UI testing tools (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, etc.)
• Postman or other API testing tool

Functional Skills:
• Data Modeling for Analytics and decisioning
• Selecting and integrating Big Data tools
• Implementing ETL process(s) across on-premise and cloud architectures
• Monitoring performance and advising any necessary infrastructure changes
Communicating with confidence and ease:
• You will be a clear and confident communicator, able to deliver messages in a concise manner with strong and effective written and verbal communication.

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

Job Requirement:
• Bachelor's / Master's degree in computer science, engineering/technology or equivalent
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English

Work Experience:
• Relevant domain of Data Engineering across industries and work experience providing analytics solutions in a commercial setting
• Consulting experience will be considered a plus

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.

BCG GAMMA as part of BCG X is dedicated to building cutting-edge AI and digital systems that go beyond prototypes to transform our clients' core businesses. Powered by proprietary data assets, our custom products integrate into clients' unique tech stacks to enable better, faster decision making.