Global IT Data Engineer Expert Director - Lynn - Boston Consulting Group

Description

Who We Are

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The following information provides an overview of the skills, qualities, and qualifications needed for this role.
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What You'll Do

As Global IT Data Engineer Expert Director, you will shape and lead the vision for enterprise data architecture, pipelines, and governance while remaining a hands-on technical contributor. You will ensure high-quality, trusted data powers analytics, reporting, and emerging GenAI use cases. Your leadership will bridge strategy, execution, and innovation—guiding the team while actively engaging in design and delivery.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Architect and build enterprise-grade data pipelines and models enabling downstream analytics, reporting, and GenAI-driven insights.
• Actively contribute to the development of scalable data solutions using dbt, Apache Airflow, FiveTran/AWS Glue and Snowflake, optimizing for reliability, observability, and performance.
• Champion data quality by ensuring completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and lineage across ingestion, transformation, and delivery.
• Partner with analytics, AI, and business teams to deliver high-value data assets that power BI dashboards, predictive models, and generative AI applications.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with product owners, architects, and governance teams to define and evolve data standards and architectures.
• Drive experimentation, developing proofs of concept and minimum viable products to evaluate new technologies and patterns.
• Establish and enforce data performance, quality, and security policies aligned with enterprise governance and regulatory frameworks.
• Serve as a player-coach—mentoring engineers while contributing directly to complex design and code reviews.
• Lead resolution of critical production issues, triaging technical challenges that demand immediate action.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

You bring a rare combination of strategic leadership and deep technical ability. You can design data architectures at scale while still contributing directly to engineering excellence.

• Expert in data modeling, warehousing, and pipeline orchestration, with proven ability to design and implement production-grade data systems.
• Hands-on experience developing and optimizing ETL/ELT pipelines with SQL, Python, dbt, Airflow, FiveTran, AWS Glue, and Snowflake.
• Skilled at analyzing and resolving performance bottlenecks in complex data flows, transformations, and reporting layers.
• Deep understanding of data quality frameworks such as SCD, CDC, and DQ or DV, with a focus on automated validation and observability.
• Comfortable working with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data for analytics and GenAI consumption.
• Experienced in integrating pipelines with AI, ML, and GenAI workflows, ensuring models are powered by high-fidelity, explainable data.
• Collaborative and pragmatic—able to dive into the codebase when needed while guiding architectural direction for scalability and reliability.
• Strong advocate for Agile principles, iterative improvement, and an engineering culture rooted in accountability, innovation, and mentorship.

What You'll Bring

• Over ten years of experience in data engineering, architecture, or platform leadership, including at least three years leading technical teams.
• Proven experience as a hands-on data engineer or architect capable of designing, coding, and reviewing complex data solutions.
• Expertise in modern data stacks including Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, AWS, GCP, or Azure, and integration tools such as FiveTran or Glue.
• Strong track record in data modeling, ETL or ELT orchestration, and implementation of data governance frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to design secure, compliant, and high-performing data architectures.
• Deep understanding of data observability, monitoring, and lineage tools.
• Familiarity with APIs, event-driven architectures, and near real-time data pipelines.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate technical solutions into strategic business value.

Essential Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Bachelor's degree in information science, data management, computer science or related field preferred.

Who You'll Work With

• Legal product portfolio technical leaders, product owners, functional area teams across levels
• Global IT Teams (Enterprise Architecture, Global Data Portfolio)
• Consulting and internal Data Product Portfolio teams across BCG

Additional info

*** For US locations only ***

In the US, we have a compensation transparency approach.
Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, retirement contribution, and a market leading benefits package described below.

• The base salary range for this role in Boston is $180, $219,300.00.

This is an estimated range, however, specific base salaries within the range depend on various factors such as experience and skill set. It is not common for new BCG employees to be hired at the high-end of the salary range. BCG regularly reviews its ranges to ensure market competitiveness.
In addition to your base salary, your total compensation will include a bonus of up to 30% and a generous retirement contribution that starts at 5% and moves to 10% after 2 years.
All of our plans provide best in class coverage:

• Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children

• Low $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs

• Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 in orthodontia benefits

• Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually

• Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities

• Fully vested Profit Sharing Retirement Fund contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not, plus the option for employees to make personal contributions to a 401(k) plan

• Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement

• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays per year, an annual office closure between Christmas and New Years, and 15 vacation days per year (earned at 1.25 days per month)

• Paid sick time on an as needed basis

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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