Data Engineering Intern

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 help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

We Are BCG X
We're a diverse team of more than 3,000 tech experts united by a drive to make a difference. Working across industries and disciplines, we combine our experience and expertise to tackle the biggest challenges faced by society today. We go beyond what was once thought possible, creating new and innovative solutions to the world's most complex problems. Leveraging BCG's global network and partnerships with leading organizations, BCG X provides a stable ecosystem for talent to build game-changing businesses, products, and services from the ground up, all while growing their career. Together, we strive to create solutions that will positively impact the lives of millions.

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

• Python, PySpark, SQL
• Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Neo4j, Redis, etc)
• Spark or other distributed big data systems (Hadoop, Pig, Hive, etc.)
• Data pipeline orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, etc.)
• Unix-based command line & development tools
• Cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.)
• Version control (e.g. Git)

Functional Skills

• Data Modeling for Analytics and decisioning
• Selecting and integrating Big Data tools
• Implementing ETL process(s) across on-premises and cloud architectures
• Monitoring performance and advising any necessary infrastructure changes

Nice To Have

• Stream-processing frameworks (e.g. Kafka)
• Flask, FastAPI, Django or NodeJS (BACKEND)
• CI/CD tools (CircleCI, Octopus deploy, Jenkins, etc.)
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, 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

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

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

Additional info

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.

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 national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.

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