About the opportunity
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 client's 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.
Profile Summary
This position works as a member of an Agile/Scrum software development team focused exclusively on building and supporting Bain’s most strategic internal software systems. Team members would work collaboratively to design, build, and implement new features and functionality in their systems to deliver the most value to Bain’s global users and support key business initiatives. Systems developed are primarily enterprise-scale browser-based or mobile applications developed with current Microsoft development languages and technologies, with a global user base and integration points with one or more other internal Bain systems.
Responsibilities
- Work on teams developing and updating applications primarily using Microsoft development languages and technologies such as the .NET Framework, C#, JQuery, Angular, JavaScript, and T-SQL, plus other technologies and frameworks like Bootstrap, AngularJS, ReactJS, etc.
- Good understanding of Object-Oriented Design principles, MVC architecture, web services, RESTFul APIs, and design patterns.
- Strong knowledge of T-SQL. Experience in writing complex stored procedures, functions, and views.
- Experience with unit testing frameworks like JUnit, NUnit, MSTest, etc.
- Work as a member of an agile software development team with full participation in all Agile team events and activities.
- Demonstrate ability to identify all technical steps required to complete a story. Work with the senior team members to evaluate product backlog items and functional specifications and determine the appropriate approach to developing the required functionality in the software application.
- Demonstrate high-level business and domain knowledge and ability to understand and achieve business outcomes.
- Work in collaboration with other team members on an agile team to analyze user stories and perform task breakdown and complete committed tasks as per sprint schedule.
- Demonstrate a good understanding of using the underlying infrastructure to develop his/her features.
- Follow the standard application design and architecture to develop his/her features and work with senior team members to ensure non-functional metrics (e.g. scalability, performance) are met.
- Prepare work estimates for committed tasks and components with support from senior team members.
- Contribute to evaluating and employing new and/or supplemental technologies necessary to deliver a given software application functionality.
- Contribute to the research and evaluation of new tools and technologies beyond current product requirements that are likely to be used in future initiatives. Help in the presentation of findings and recommendations to the full Software Development team.
- Write unit test plans for committed components. Execute and confirm successful completion of unit tests as part of the criteria for completion.
- Participate in the testing and implementation of applications releases.
- communicates impediments to completing a story and ensures a clear understanding of the definition of ‘done’.
- Provide ongoing support for applications already in use. This includes problem diagnosis and resolution, ad hoc reporting support, and database administration.
- Demonstrate ability to acquire new skills e.g. creating automation tests using selenium, creating UX designs, DevOps, performing functional/ load testing, etc. through internal/ external training to be a T-Shaped team member helping the team in achieving sprint goals.
- Participate in internal skill development by sharing concepts and technologies with the full Software Development team.
- Provide input during sprint retrospective to improve team experience.
- Follow Bain development project process and standards in completing committed tasks and modules and contribute to the continual evolution of processes and standards.
- With guidance, write technical documentation as required
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, MIS, or a related field
- Min 1.5 year+ of relevant software development experience working in the Microsoft development environment. Experience with C#.NET, JavaScript, React, ASP.NET and/or MVC and SQL compliant databases required. Knowledge of AngularJs, Bootstrap, ReactJS, VB.NET, and Windows/Desktop development is a plus.
- Demonstrated knowledge of agile software development methodologies and processes.
- Demonstrated record of strong performance in prior software development positions.
- Strong communication and customer service skills
- Strong analytic and problem-solving skills.
- High performance and standards as demonstrated by academic or previous job experience.