Who You'll Work With
Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.
In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleaguesat all levelswill invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you'll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won't find anywhere else.
When you join us, you will have:
- Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
- A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You'll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
- Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm's diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you'll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.
Your Impact
Your responsibilities will range from shaping and implementing strategic products to ensuring that McKinsey's craft stays on the leading edge of technology.
As a Technology Architect, you will be involved in leading complex software development teams and products in a hands-on manner. You will provide thought leadership to the senior leaders for the direction of the overall product portfolio and how to manage and evolve our architecture and product designs.
You will prototype code and participate in code reviews, facilitate breaking down user stories into technical tasks and help manage the process by which code is delivered. Your expertise will expand into Cloud technologies, DevOps and continuous delivery domains.
You will be an active learner, identifying new or better ways to deliver impact with people and technology. You will develop a growth mindset and relish opportunities to use familiar and unfamiliar technologies, closed source and open-source software, and develop better approaches to solving business and technical challenges. You will have a strong understanding of key agile engineering practices to guide teams on improvement opportunities in their engineering practices. You will lead the adoption of technical standards and best practices to improve our organizational capability.
You will also provide ongoing coaching and mentoring to the technical leads and developers to grow high performing teams.
You will be based in our Bengaluru or Gurugram office as part of our Growth, Marketing & Sales solutions team.
You will be aligned primarily with Periscope's technology team. Periscope By McKinsey enables better commercial decisions by uncovering actionable insights. The Periscope platform combines world leading intellectual property, prescriptive analytics, and cloud-based tools to provide more than 25 solutions focused on insights and marketing, with expert support and training. It is a unique combination that drives revenue growth both now and in the future. Customer experience, performance, pricing, category, and sales optimization are powered by the Periscope platform.
Periscope has a presence in 26 locations across 16 countries with a team of 1000+ business and IT professionals and a network of 300+ experts.
To learn more about how Periscope's solutions and experts are helping businesses continually drive better performance, visit us here.
Your Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent area; master's degree is a plus
- 11+ years of experience in software development
- 4+ years of experience in architecting SaaS/Web based customer-facing products, leading engineering teams as a software/technical architect
- Hands-on experience in designing and building B2B or B2C data intrinsic products
- Working experience across multiple programming languages and frameworks with in-depth experience in one or more of the following: Scala OR Go-Lang OR Java
- Experience with Big Data processing technologies like Spark or Databricks preferred
- Hands-on experience with document stores like Elasticsearch and relational databases like PostgreSQL
- Hands-on experience with container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes
- Experience in engineering practices such as code refactoring, microservices, design and enterprise integration patterns, test and design driven development, continuous integration, building highly scalable applications, application and infrastructure security
- Strong cloud infrastructure experience with Azure cloud
- Experience in building event driven systems and working with message queues/topics
- Knowledge of Agile software development process
