Oliver Wyman - Principal Data Engineer

Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.•Chicago, IL

40d•$240,000 - $260,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Oliver Wyman Performance Transformation is a ground-breaking division within Oliver Wyman delivering world-class solutions to give our clients a competitive edge. We work across the full technology stack from databases and analytics to APIs and web and mobile applications. With a mixture of over 700 consultants, specialists and support professionals in 16 major cities across the world, we're committed to growth that retains our start-up agility while expanding our opportunities for world-class work. Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With a staff of over 4000 across 30 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation. No two OW Performance Transformation projects are the same. You'll be working with hugely varied and diverse teams to deliver unique and unprecedented strategy and product delivery across industries. The Principal Engineer at Oliver Wyman Performance Transformation is crucial to defining, designing, and delivering solutions that achieve breakthrough impact for our clients - all enabled by best-in-class DevSecOps model, Agile practices, architecture and tech stack. As a Principal Engineer, you will work alongside Oliver Wyman partners in Performance Transformation and other practice groups, engage directly with clients to understand their business challenges, and craft optimal solutions to be delivered by OW Performance Transformation specialists and consultants delivering strategy, or products into production. You will own all technology and engineering responsibilities for a cross-functional team covering technology, data science, customer experience and design. When you are a product builder, you will be hands-on defining the architecture, tech stack, leading the engineering team while working with the product owner and designer. You will be instrumental in helping to validate build feasibility, operating costs, handle risk as well as key aspects of security, performance, resiliency, and scalability. Cost benefit and trade-off analysis will be key as you work with the team to build something amazing. You will collocate with the team regularly or occasionally, working remotely at other times. We're also hoping you'll be able to bring us experience with at least one of the following: Financial services and/or capital markets Health and life sciences domain Insurance (individual or group) Consumer, retail, energy, or transportation domain

Requirements

For the Principal Engineer role, we are looking for senior hands-on technologists with 10+ years of extensive software engineering experience. The ideal candidate is an excellent communicator and has experience working with both technical and non-technical colleagues in a cross-functional environment. The ideal candidate also has experience pitching and explaining technical architecture and strategy to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience with scalable architecture whilst leading and inspiring software development teams
Hands-on development and delivery experience with a broad mix of languages and technologies
Real passion for solving customer friction through simple and effective software
Strong people skills that contribute to an open and collaborative environment
Experience working with Agile and Lean approaches such as Continuous Integration and Delivery, TDD, and Rapid Prototyping
Experience communicating technical vision to a variety of team members
Ability to embrace and reduce uncertainty through continual validated learning
Practical experience with refactoring, design patterns, design driven development, system and application design, and application security
Experience with small teams that move fast

Nice To Haves

How to work with structured and unstructured data
Multiple programming languages and frameworks with in-depth skills in at least one of the following: JavaScript, NodeJS, React, Python, Go, .NET
Designing and deploying applications on cloud native infrastructure with providers such as AWS, Azure, or Google using patterns such as serverless or managed services
Container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes and microservices
Infrastructure as Code such as AWS CloudFormation and Terraform
Ideally some familiarity with CX and HTML5/CSS3
Search technologies such as Elastic / ELK or LucidWorks
Authentication/Authorization APIs such as OKTA
Financial services and/or capital markets
Health and life sciences domain
Insurance (individual or group)
Consumer, retail, energy, or transportation domain

Responsibilities

Provide hands-on technical leadership, training and mentoring staff
Develop DevSecOps, CI/CD, release engineering strategies applying DORA, SPACE, and other industry leading metrics advocating developer productivity and product stability
Lead change management initiatives, helping our clients navigate and embrace new ways of working
Help to improve the OW Performance Transformation Architecture and Engineering specialty
Design and architect innovative, modern cloud-native digital experiences that are scalable, resilient, and secure
Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Write code alongside your development team
Work with state-of-the-art technologies to solve genuine, real-world problems
Champion good agile practices that provide a foundation for iterative product development
Build strong relationships with product managers, designers, customer experience and human insights experts
Enjoy working in a diverse, dynamic, collaborative, transparent, environment where everyone's ideas and opinions are equally valued
Cross-pollinate good practices and insights between projects and groups within the firm
Travel 10 - 25% of the time to collaborate with distributed teams or clients as needed

Benefits

An opportunity to play a key role in the design, development and commercialization of software and hardware products aimed at disrupting B2B and B2C markets across a wide range of business domains.
Help our clients across a variety of industries think deeply about their engineering and technical strategy ranging from organizational transformation to product re-engineering
The opportunity to work within a deeply accomplished team with direct exposure to some of the world's most influential organizations.
A structured career development program with both technical and leadership tracks.
A competitive salary and benefits complemented with a flexible learning & development budget (including attending conferences), enabling you to choose the right path for your own development.
A level of autonomy and self-management that you won't typically find at other companies.
healthcare options
401k matching
a culture of continuous improvement
professional training
personal development
diverse roles and responsibilities