Company:
Oliver Wyman
Description:
Locations: Boston, New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Toronto, Montreal
Principal Engineer
WHO WE ARE
Oliver Wyman Performance Transformation is a ground-breaking division within Oliver Wyman delivering world-class solutions to give our clients a competitive edge. We work across the full technology stack from databases and analytics to APIs and web and mobile applications. With a mixture of over 700 consultants, specialists and support professionals in 16 major cities across the world, we are committed to growth that retains our start-up agility while expanding our opportunities for world-class work.
Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting with a staff of over 4000 across 30 countries. Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management and organization transformation.
THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
No two OW Performance Transformation projects are the same. Youll be working with varied and diverse teams to deliver unique strategy and product delivery across industries. The Principal Engineer at Oliver Wyman Performance Transformation is crucial to defining, designing and delivering solutions that achieve breakthrough impact for our clients, enabled by best-in-class DevSecOps model, Agile practices, architecture and tech stack.
As a Principal Engineer you will work alongside Oliver Wyman partners in Performance Transformation and other practice groups, engage directly with clients to understand their business challenges and craft optimal solutions to be delivered by OW Performance Transformation specialists and consultants delivering strategy or products into production. You will own all technology and engineering responsibilities for a cross-functional team covering technology, data science, customer experience and design.
You will be hands-on defining the architecture and tech stack, leading the engineering team, while working with the product owner and designer. You will validate build feasibility, operating costs, handle risk, and key aspects of security, performance, resiliency and scalability. Cost benefit and trade-off analysis will be key as you work with the team to build something amazing.
You will collocate with the team regularly or occasionally work remotely at other times.
We’re also hoping you’ll bring experience with at least one of the following:
- Financial services and/or capital markets
- Health and life sciences domain
- Insurance (individual or group)
- Consumer, retail, energy or transportation domain
YOUR EXPERIENCE
We believe in and practice servant leadership here so your primary goal is to bring the best out of the other talented technologists on the team, not to do it all yourself.
What youll get to do:
- Provide hands-on technical leadership, training and mentoring staff
- Develop DevSecOps CI/CD release engineering strategies applying DORA SPACE and other industry-leading metrics, advocating developer productivity and product stability
- Lead change management initiatives helping our clients navigate and embrace new ways of working
- Help to improve the OW Performance Transformation Architecture and Engineering specialty
- Design and architect innovative modern cloud-native digital experiences that are scalable, resilient and secure
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Write code alongside your development team
- Work with state-of-the-art technologies to solve genuine real-world problems
- Champion good agile practices that provide a foundation for iterative product development
- Build strong relationships with product managers, designers, customer experience and human insights experts
- Enjoy working in a diverse, dynamic, collaborative, transparent environment where everyone’s ideas and opinions are equally valued
- Cross-pollinate good practices and insights between projects and groups within the firm
- Travel 10–25% of the time to collaborate with distributed teams or clients as needed
What youll bring:
For the Principal Engineer role we are looking for senior hands-on technologists with 10 years of extensive software engineering experience. The ideal candidate is an excellent communicator with experience working with both technical and non-technical colleagues in a cross-functional environment. The ideal candidate also has experience pitching and explaining technical architecture and strategy to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Additionally you should bring:
- Experience with scalable architecture whilst leading and inspiring software development teams
- Hands-on development and delivery experience with a broad mix of languages and technologies
- Real passion for solving customer friction through simple and effective software
- Strong people skills that contribute to an open and collaborative environment
- Experience working with Agile and Lean approaches such as Continuous Integration and Delivery, TDD and Rapid Prototyping
- Experience communicating technical vision to a variety of team members
- Ability to embrace and reduce uncertainty through continual validated learning
- Practical experience with refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, system and application design and application security
- Experience with small teams that move fast
We’re hoping you’ll have experience with some of the following. You don’t need deep experience with everything here to apply; some depth in one or more will go a long way:
- How to work with structured and unstructured data
- Multiple programming languages and frameworks with in-depth skills in at least one: JavaScript, NodeJS, React, Python
- Designing and deploying applications on cloud-native infrastructure with providers such as AWS, Azure or Google using patterns like serverless or managed services
- Container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes and microservices
- Infrastructure as Code such as AWS CloudFormation and Terraform
- Familiarity with CX and HTML5/CSS3
- Search technologies such as Elastic/ELK or LucidWorks
- Authentication/Authorization APIs such as OKTA
What we offer you:
- Opportunity to design, develop and commercialize software and hardware products across varied domains
- Help clients think deeply about engineering and technical strategy from organizational transformation to product re-engineering
- Work within a deeply accomplished team with exposure to influential organizations
- Structured career development program with technical and leadership tracks
- Competitive salary and benefits with a flexible learning and development budget
- Autonomy and self-management not typically found elsewhere
OUR VALUES & CULTURE
We are serious about making OW Performance Transformation rewarding, enjoyable and balanced.
- Rewarding work We have a reputation for high quality work and work with major brands on exciting projects
- Progressive employment Flat structures, merit-based progression and healthcare options
- Enjoyable days We nurture mentoring, development and social impact opportunities
- Balanced lives We support a good work-life balance
We work with you to accommodate your personal life with flexible hours and the option to work from home.
HOW TO APPLY
If you like what you’ve read, we’d love to hear from you. You can find this and other roles and submit your CV at our careers page; please include a short note introducing yourself and what you’re looking for.
The application process will include both technical testing and team-fit interviews.
Oliver Wyman is an equal opportunity employer.
Our commitment to diversity is genuine, deep, and growing. We’re not perfect but we are working hard to make our teams balanced, representative and diverse.
About Oliver Wyman
Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting with offices in more than 70 cities across 30 countries. The firm has more than 6000 professionals who help clients optimize business, improve operations and accelerate performance. Oliver Wyman is a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC). For more information visit the Oliver Wyman site.
Marsh McLennan and its affiliates are EOE/MF/Disability/Vet/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity employers.
The applicable base salary range for this role is $240,000–$260,000.
In addition to base salary, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including health benefits, tuition assistance and 401K programs.
Oliver Wyman is a Marsh McLennan company and a leader in risk, strategy and people advising clients in 130 countries. We are committed to a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. If you need accommodation, please let us know.
Required Experience: Staff IC
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