IT Data Engineering Trainee

About Boston Consulting Group

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. Today, they help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

Your role

Responsibilities would include:

• Designing and implementing data pipelines, data warehousing, and data governance solutions
• Collaborating with data analysts and other stakeholders to understand and support the analytical needs of the business
• Building scalable, high-performance data infrastructure to support analytical and machine learning workloads
• Ensuring data quality and integrity through proper data governance practices
• Participating in Agile development processes and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver data-driven insights that support decision-making

Data as a concept and data engineering

• Identifying and defining data engineering problems: Understand business objectives and identify areas where data engineering can help in enabling data for analytics.
• Proposing data engineering solutions with the right tools/tech
• Developing and implementing data engineering pipelined: Use analytical insights to design and implement solutions that address data problems, using various coding and data engineering
• methods.

Communication, interpersonal, and teaming skills

• You work positively and collaboratively with others and within a team, and you build strong and lasting relationships
• You adapt your style to changing situations and audiences with tact, poise, and patience.
• You should be comfortable connecting & engaging with people across cultures, backgrounds, and geographies within BCG
• You ask the right questions and share ideas within &across projects with an analytical mindset

Work Management, organization, and planning

• Must be able to perform successfully in a fast-paced, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment
• You will be working in an Agile environment
• Strong Organizational skills
• Ability to prioritize efforts accordingly.

Training & development

The teams at BCG feature recent graduates with academic backgrounds across numerous disciplines, from business to humanities to science and more. You’ll be able to make an impact from day one in a supportive environment that respects the views of every individual. You’ll have opportunities for international assignments while being supported in a deeply collaborative environment. Hands-on learning, support from your team, and innovative training programs will allow for a smooth transition from the classroom to the real world of business.

Benefits

BCG offers a comprehensive benefits program, including:

• Medical,
• Dental, and vision coverage,
• Telemedicine services,
• Life, accident, and disability insurance,
• Parental leave and family planning benefits,
• Caregiving resources,

To learn more about the benefits provided by BCG, click here.

Career Progression 

BCG's knowledge and research specialists collaborate with global colleagues across BCG to bring expertise and capabilities to the service of their clients. The team is made up of a diverse pool of knowledge and research positions that allow them to pursue exciting, innovative research careers.

Work-life balance

Being a global firm, you may work with people from different cultures and time zones, or you may need more latitude to be your curious and creative best. The reason why BCG offers three different flexible work options, along with ongoing support to set you up for success;

• Flex Time
• Flex Leave
• Flex Paths

Culture & vibe

Diversity and inclusion are crucial for the progress and success of a global business—and the two go hand in hand as a major part of BCG’s culture. A workforce with diverse backgrounds and perspectives opens the door to innovative solutions, but employees also need to feel welcome and supported to share their unique experiences, voice disagreement, and offer new ideas.

About you

You Bring (Experience & Qualifications):

Strong understanding of end-to-end data, engineering tasks & responsibilities.

• Very good understanding of data as a concept & capabilities of data & analytics platforms.
• Should have a clear understanding of data warehousing, ETL, and data pipeline concepts.
• SQL is heavily used across the team, so having a solid understanding of it is crucial to success in this role.
• Good understanding & exposure to cloud platforms i.e., AWS.
• Snowflake experience is preferred as the MPP technology is widely used across the organization.
• As a college graduate, it is important to have a strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structure, and algorithms.
• Strong programming skills in Python, PySpark, or Scala.
• Understanding of data modeling and data governance best practices.
• Ability to write new code i.e., well-documented and stored in a version control system (we use GitHub)
• Familiarity with JIRA & Confluence. Process management knowledge is a must.
• Good to have exposure to data-platform technologies such as DBT, Talend, FiveTran, Compose, Apache airflow, and Snowflake.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work with large datasets & complex systems.
• In this role, you’ll collaborate with analysts, senior engineers, product owners, and other stakeholders to understand their data needs and implement solutions.
• As a data engineer in our agile organization, you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects, use advanced technologies and be a part of a team that values adaptability, flexibility, and continuous improvement.
• Strong communication skills.

How to apply

This role is currently closed. If you are interested in this role, simply click "Pre-Register" and Prosple will inform you once this position opens again.

The basic recruitment process at BCG includes:

• Online test
• Group Discussion Round.
• Skills-based interview.
• Problem-solving 
• HR Round