Lead, Software Engineering
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About the Role
Bain & Company seeks a Lead, Software Engineering to join their AI, Insights & Solutions team. This individual contributor role involves designing, developing, and deploying sophisticated software solutions at scale, collaborating with consulting teams, and mentoring junior members.
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Responsibilities
- Collaborate with consulting teams to identify software solutions to client business problems
- Serve as technical lead in delivering end to end solutions for client cases
- Participate in software development life cycle including designing distributed systems, reviewing documentation, and conducting code reviews
- Participate in expert client advisory services requiring expertise in software engineering with distributed systems, AI and application architecture
- Collaborate on development of reusable common frameworks, models, and components
- Champion best demonstrated practices in software engineering and share learnings
- Lead industry leading innovations that translate into great impact for clients
- Influence, educate and directly support the software engineering capabilities of clients
- Stay current with emerging trends and technologies
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- 5 years minimum experience
- 3+ years at Senior or Staff level, or equivalent
- Professional fluency in English and Arabic
- Working knowledge (4+ years) of Python
- Experience with server side frameworks such as FastAPI, Node.js, Flask
- Experience with Cloud platforms and services (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
- Experience with data architecture, database schema design, database scalability and SQL
- Experience with large scale databases, orchestration and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform)
- Strong computer science fundamentals
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WHAT MAKES US A GREAT PLACE TO WORK
- We are proud to be consistently recognized as one of the world’s best places to work. We are currently the top ranked consulting firm on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list and have earned the #1 overall spot a record seven times.
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
- You’ll join our Engineering Experts within the AI, Insights & Solutions team. This team is part of Bain’s digital capabilities practice, which includes experts in analytics, engineering, product management, and design.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Collaborate closely with and influence general consulting teams to identify software solutions to client business problems, to prioritize and execute those solutions
- Serve as a technical lead in delivering end to end solutions for client cases (from solution architecture to hands on development work)
- Participate in the software development life cycle including designing distributed systems, reviewing documentation, and conducting code reviews
- Participate in expert client advisory services that require expertise in software engineering with distributed systems, AI and application architecture
- Collaborate on the development of reusable common frameworks, models, and components to efficiently address common software engineering challenges across various industries and business functions
- Champion best demonstrated practices in software engineering, and share learnings with team members in AIS about theoretical and technical developments in software engineering
- Lead industry leading innovations that translate into great impact for our clients in case work
- Influence, educate and directly support the software engineering capabilities of our clients
- Stay current with emerging trends and technologies in cloud computing, data analysis, and software engineering, and proactively identify opportunities to enhance the capabilities of the software platform
- This role requires a minimum of three days per week working together in person, either at a client location or at your Bain home office.
- Travel is required. This position requires regional travel away from your home office/primary working location. Travel frequency and destinations will vary based on project needs.
ABOUT YOU Education & Experience
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- 5 years minimum experience
- 3+ years at Senior or Staff level, or equivalent
- Professional fluency in English and Arabic
Technical Skills and Knowledge
- Working knowledge (4+ years) of Python
- Experience with server side frameworks and technologies such as FastAPI, Node.js, Flask.
- Experience with Cloud platforms and services (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
- Experience with data architecture, database schema design, database scalability and SQL
- Experience with implementation of large scale structured or unstructured databases, orchestration and container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins or Terraform
- Strong computer science fundaments in data structures, algorithms, automated testing, object oriented programming, performance complexity, and implications of computer architecture on software performance.
- Ideally, experience with client side technologies such as React, Angular, Vue.js, HTML and CSS
- Knowledge of agile development methodologies and principles
Interpersonal Skills
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to explain and discuss technicalities of solutions, algorithms and techniques with colleagues and clients from other disciplines
- Curiosity, proactivity and critical thinking
- Ability to collaborate with people at all levels and with multi office/region teams
Other Experience
- Relevant professional hands on experience in web development, programming languages, version control, software design pattern, infrastructure and deployment, integration and unit testing implementation
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