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Software Architect
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Overview * Do you want to help shape the future of the consulting industry? * Do you want to work with Bain's most senior stakeholders on strategic Global priorities? * Do you want the variety and dynamism of a technology start-up environment within the comfort of a major management consultancy? Bain & Company is one of the world's leading global business consulting firms, serving clients across six continents. It was founded in 1973 on the principle that consultants must measure their success in terms of their clients' financial results. Bain's clients have outperformed the stock market 4 to 1. With offices in all major cities, Bain has worked with over 4,150 major multinational and other corporations from every economic sector, in every region of the world. A career at Bain & Company will provide the opportunity to learn in a collaborative teaming environment, drive impact to support our 'Results' mission statement. The firm has a passionate and rich culture that offers an unparalleled business experience that can carry throughout a career. We hire dynamic individuals that are dedicated to achieving both personal and professional goals. The Team Bain's Next-Generation Software Solutions (NGSS) team has been set up to help Industry and Capability Practices digitize their Intellectual Property through a diversified suite of digital tools, technologies, services, and support capabilities. The team supports practices, case teams, and clients through various product delivery models including best-in-class partnerships with leading SaaS vendors, new product development using industry-leading low code and business engineering platforms, and developing highly complex full-stack custom software. In addition to core product development, the team fills critical gaps through a growing technical services catalog including technical architecture assessments, full-stack code reviews, architecture consulting, business automation and workflows, data and system integration, data visualization, and cloud infrastructure hosting and support. Underlying these products and services is Next Gen's Customer Success Program, ensuring the tools are setup and configured according to the case team and client's needs, end-users are on-boarded and trained properly, and a global support structure is in-place to quickly answer any questions or address issues. The results of these efforts are a greater ability to sell cases effectively, serve clients efficiently, and drive capability transfer. In short, it is about better results that enhance our clients' and our own competitiveness. We will be recruiting these roles in 2020. If you are interested please express that by applying here and we will be back in touch once we are ready to recruit. The team is seeking a Software Architect to join the NGPM team. Working under the guidance of the Program Manager and alongside the team's Senior Architect, Project Managers, User Experience Designers, and Tools Specialists, this multi-faceted role will help drive the overall engineering approach for NGPM tools and products. This includes defining the technology stack for custom-built solutions, overseeing the overall architecture and design, providing strategic and tactical direction to development teams, taking part in hands-on development, conducting formal code reviews, ensuring performance and scalability baselines, and driving overall quality standards. This is a highly visible role within Bain and will help to set the architectural direction of both NGPM products but also at the Bain enterprise level as well. Responsibilities Architecture and Technical Governance: * Provide technical leadership and architectural direction to internal and external development teams on the design, development, implementation, and deployment of highly usable and scalable software * Participate in system coding and engineering alongside development teams, including performing formal code reviews and providing feedback on structure, maintainability and quality of code * Strictly enforce and maintain adherence to best practices in the area of security, performance and load, scalability, usability, maintainability, and supportability of software * Perform in-depth technology evaluations and risk assessments of vendor software and platforms * Participate in estimation, planning, and costing of new projects and initiatives across multiple metrics * Produce and maintain technical designs, architecture artifacts, best practices, and principles for technical and executive-level audiences * Lead rapid-prototyping efforts with new and emerging technologies to assess technical fit and risk * Lead in build versus buy assessments, working to evaluate trade-offs of various options, and present final recommendations to senior stakeholders and management * Investigate and keep up-to-date on emerging and cutting-edge technologies, lead knowledge sharing * Act as a technical liaison and leader between NGPM and other Bain digital and