Engineering Director, AI/ML Applications

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WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

As a member of Bain’s Advanced Analytics Group, you’ll join a talented team of diverse and inclusive analytics professionals who are dedicated to solving complex challenges for our clients. We work closely with our generalist consultants and clients to develop data-driven strategies and innovative solutions. Our collaborative and supportive work environment fosters creativity and continuous learning, enabling us to consistently deliver exceptional results.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a member of the growing Engineering team in Bain’s Advanced Analytics Group, you will:

• Collaborate closely with and influence general consulting teams to identify AI 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
• Participate in expert client advisory activities that require deep expertise software engineering with distributed systems and application architecture
• Collaborate on (or lead) the development of re-usable common frameworks, model and components that can be highly leveraged to address common software engineering problems across industries and business functions
• Drive best demonstrated practices in software engineering, and share learnings with team members in AAG about theoretical and technical developments in software engineering 
• Work with the team and other senior leaders to create a great working environment that attracts other great engineers 
• Coach engineering teams at our clients and partners to raise their capabilities and ensure that our work is successfully deployed to the highest standards
• Drive industry-leading innovations that translates into great impact for our clients in case work 
• Act as PD Advisor as needed 
• Lead recruiting and onboarding for other team members

ABOUT YOU

• 10+ years of engineering experience 

• 3+ years of experience managing software engineers
• Track record of shipping production, enterprise scale AI applications and data analytics products.
• 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

• Expert knowledge of Python 
• Deep experience with additional server-side frameworks and technologies such as FastAPI, Node.js, Flask.
• 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)
• Curiosity, proactivity and critical thinking.
• Strong computer science fundaments in data structures, algorithms, automated testing, object-oriented programming, performance complexity, and implications of computer architecture on software performance.
• Experience with data architecture, database schema design, database scalability and SQL.
• Knowledge of client-side technologies such as React, Angular, Vue.js, HTML and CSS
• Understanding of data security and privacy regulations, key topics in cybersecurity, authentication and authorization mechanisms (including cloud IAM)

• Experience working according to agile principles 
• Ability to collaborate with people at all levels and with multi-office/region teams 
• Ability to work independently and juggle priorities to thrive in a fast paced and ambiguous environment, while also collaborating as part of a team in complex situations