Description & Requirements
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 #1 ranked consulting firm on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list and have maintained a spot in the top four on Glassdoor’s list since its founding in 2009. Extraordinary teams are at the heart of our business strategy, but these don’t happen by chance. They require intentional focus on bringing together a broad set of backgrounds, cultures, experiences, perspectives, and skills in a supportive and inclusive work environment.
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. In this multidisciplinary environment, you'll leverage deep technical expertise with business acumen to help clients tackle their most transformative challenges. You’ll work on integrated teams alongside our general consultants and clients to develop data-driven strategies and innovative solutions.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
As an Expert Senior Manager, Software Engineering, you will lead the development and application of technical solutions to address complex problems in various industries. You will mentor and guide a diverse engineering team through the entire engineering life cycle. Your responsibilities will include designing, developing, optimizing, and deploying cutting-edge data engineering solutions and infrastructure at the production scale required by the world’s largest companies.
• Collaborate closely with and influence general consulting teams to identify software solutions to client business problems, and to appropriately scope, prioritize and execute those solutions
• Overall technical leader responsible for end-to-end technical solution delivery on client cases (from solution architecture to hands-on development work)
• Lead the entire software development life cycle, including architecture design, writing clean code, conducting code reviews, writing documentation, unit/integration tests, identifying issues and resolutions
• Drive industry-leading innovations that translate into great impact for our clients in case work
• Act as PD Advisor as needed. Lead recruiting and onboarding for other team members
Travel is required (30%)
Location: Tokyo (Hybrid)
ABOUT YOU
Required
• Minimum 12 years of relevant professional hands-on experience in web development, programming languages, version control, software design pattern, infrastructure and deployment, integration and unit testing implementation
• 3 years minimum experience managing software engineers
• Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• Commercial acumen and understanding of business models
• Experience leading multiple projects independently and growing and developing more junior engineers
Technical Skills and Knowledge:
• Track record of shipping production, enterprise scale AI applications and data analytics products.
• Expert knowledge (5+ years) of Python
• Experience with Cloud platforms and services (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
• Experience working in accordance with DevSecOps principles, and familiarity with industry deployment best practices using CI/CD tools, MLOps, LLMOps and infrastructure as code (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform)
• Experience with data architecture, database schema design, database scalability and SQL
• Experience with client-side technologies such as React, Angular, Vue.js, HTML and CSS
• Experience working according to agile principles
• 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