About the Role
BCG X is a collective of technology and digital experts from Boston Consulting Group, responsible for building businesses and products using technology and data. We combine strategic consulting knowledge with advanced expertise in AI, software engineering, product development, and UX design to support client transformation from conception to implementation and scaling.
Responsibilities
- Act as an engineering expert to address critical management challenges for client companies across various industries.
- Develop and implement concrete products and solutions by leveraging deep understanding and design/construction capabilities in cutting-edge technologies, particularly AI.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and internal/external stakeholders to understand client business challenges and contribute to value creation through proposing and building solutions using technology (especially Generative AI and Cloud).
- Engage in practical development across a wide range of technical topics, considering the unique infrastructure and operational environments of each client, to build robust and highly efficient systems.
- Propose technology selections and best practices based on knowledge of the latest technological trends and future prospects, and elevate the technical level both internally and externally.
- Contribute to value creation by proposing and building solutions that utilize digital technologies (especially Generative AI and Cloud) while understanding client business challenges.
- Select technology stacks and lead the development process consistently, including web/mobile apps, data platforms, and cloud infrastructure, according to project scope, client environment, and constraints.
- Lead DevOps/MLOps implementation and QA to ensure development efficiency and quality.
- Collaborate agilely with multidisciplinary teams (PM, Data Scientists, Designers, Consultants, etc.) and bridge a wide range of perspectives, including UX, data models, and business models, with technical viewpoints.
- Form development teams, including contractors, lead agile development, and achieve rapid hypothesis testing and business impact creation within limited timeframes.
- Communicate technical approaches and their effects on business challenges clearly and understandably to internal and external stakeholders.
- Support the establishment of systems for clients to properly operate the developed systems and models.
- Propose technology selections and best practices with knowledge of the latest technology trends and future prospects, and raise the technical level both internally and externally.
Requirements
- This position is for experienced professionals through mid-career recruitment only.
- Experience in production-quality agile software development and operation within multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience in building web/mobile front-ends, back-ends, and cloud infrastructure.
- Coding skills in Python, TypeScript, etc.
Skills
- Generative AI development experience
- Development experience for large-scale services or enterprise SaaS
- Experience handling structured and unstructured data such as RDB/NoSQL and streaming data
- Understanding of DevOps/MLOps
- Experience in production implementation of large-scale data analytics, analytical models, and workflows
- Experience in building good client relationships and negotiating requirements
- PMO experience, including project progress and issue management, and meeting facilitation
- Management experience in multidisciplinary teams
- English proficiency at a conversational level or higher
- Ability to understand the business situation of clients and devise solutions based on it.
- Ability to apply advanced development and analysis methods to real business and achieve results.
- Flexible, proactive, and creative critical thinking skills.
- Emphasis on teamwork and professional execution of duties.
- Willingness to learn the latest methods and tools in unfamiliar fields.
- Ability to visualize and explain complex technical concepts and ideas in an understandable way for non-experts.
Location
- Tokyo Office
Work Type
- Flex-time system
Experience Level
- Experienced professionals
Salary/Compensations
- Determined according to company regulations
Benefits
- Social insurance complete
- Retirement benefit system
- Various training (domestic/international)
- Knowledge sharing program (domestic/international)
- Overseas office dispatch system
- Two days off per week (Saturday/Sunday)
- National holidays
- Year-end and New Year holidays
- Annual paid leave
- Summer holidays
- Congratulatory and condolence leave
- Other special leave (maternity/childcare leave, etc.)
About the Company
- 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’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.
- Our projects are centered around themes directly linked to the transformation of leading Japanese companies.
- We can tackle challenges across industries and domains, including new business creation, company-wide transformation, customer experience reform, and operational improvement, with a focus on large-scale, cross-industry impact.
- The appeal of this position lies in contributing to solving broader societal and business issues through technology and experiencing personal growth.
- You can be deeply involved in the process of embodying solutions for client management issues through technology and delivering them as 'implementation' value to the client.
- As client requirements vary in terms of necessary technology stacks and infrastructure environments, there are many opportunities to acquire a wider range of technologies and experiences.
- Information exchange can occur with domestic and international members of various ages and backgrounds through events (participation in tech conferences, technical study sessions, etc.) and regular team meetings.
- We actively invest in engineer growth through participation in various external training programs and inviting external experts to keep up with the latest technologies.
- We may also validate and apply usable technologies to products immediately.
Equal Opportunity
- 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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