JobsGlobal IT Database Engineer – Expert Senior Manager
Global IT Database Engineer – Expert Senior Manager
Boston Consulting GroupGlobal IT Database Engineer – Expert Senior Manager
Boston Consulting GroupLocation
Boston, MA
Type
Full-time
Posted
4/16/2026
Compensation
$153,000 - $186,300 a year
Master's with 2+ Years of Experience
Approval 95.7%·Filings 529·New hires 262·
✓ Established Sponsor
·FY 2025Job description
Join BCG's Data Platform Engineering Portfolio to drive the transformation into a data-driven, AI-enabled enterprise. This role focuses on designing and evolving cloud-native database platforms, primarily on AWS, while ensuring scalability, security, and automation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 10+ years’ experience in database, platform, or infrastructure engineering
- Strong experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms (AWS preferred)
- Hands-on expertise with modern database technologies, including document, search, or graph platforms
- Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and performance optimization
- Experience designing for reliability, observability, and operational excellence
- Solid understanding of cloud security and data protection best practices
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver cloud-native database platforms with a focus on scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency
- Build automated, self-service capabilities using Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform), CI/CD, and Git-based workflows
- Define and implement reusable platform patterns, standards, and guardrails
- Act as a Solution Architect where required, translating business needs into scalable data platform designs
- Embed SRE principles including observability, performance, and incident response
- Ensure secure-by-design practices across identity, access, and data protection
- Drive cost transparency and optimization through FinOps principles
- Partner with architecture, application, and data teams to deliver integrated solutions
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers
- Lead design and architecture reviews aligned to enterprise standards
- Evaluate new technologies and lead proof-of-concepts
- Support emerging use cases (e.g. analytics, AI/ML, GenAI) where relevant
Benefits
- Employees at BCG are often offered comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no monthly premiums and $10 copays, plus mental-health resources (EAP, telehealth, meditation app), medical second opinions, FSAs, annual fitness reimbursement, and life and disability insurance. Compensation typically includes competitive pay, annual bonuses, generous retirement contributions with a 401(k), and robust time off, including vacation, holidays, sick leave, bereavement, and enhanced parental leave up to 22 weeks for birth parents and 14 weeks of bonding for all new parents. Additional perks include adoption and fertility assistance, transportation benefits, backup child and elder care, and flexible hybrid or remote work options.
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