Job Openings at McKinsey & Company

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As a Technical Lead, you will be a core member of the team with responsibilities that range from driving the architecture design and technology decisions for shaping the next generation products for various internal teams to ensuring that we stay on the leading edge of technology. You will also be responsible for leading multiple development teams while delivering best-in-class enterprise-grade software solutions across a breadth of different platforms and technologies.

You are a flexible and adaptive tech lead, who effectively communicates across a broad range of stakeholder groups from engineers to business users, as well as effectively leads a project workstream

What You'll Do

• You will work collaboratively in small teams and iteratively through design and development to deliver fully functioning web-based and mobile applications.
• In this role, you will employ agile methodologies to quickly provide our clients with the solutions they need. You will help combine the latest open source technologies together with traditional Enterprise software products.

Qualifications

• Post Grad or master’s degree; or equivalent work experience
• 5-8 years of experience in software development, including leading a team and a project workstream
• Strong application development knowledge of any of the following technologies JavaScript, React, Android (Kotlin/Java), Swift, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Java, .Net core, HTML, CSS
• Engineering practice experience such as code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, continuous integration, building highly scalable applications, application security, secure coding practice
• Demonstrated track record of successfully understanding the business requirements and designing realistic and effective solutions
• Knowledge of Agile software development process
• Knowledge of agile testing approaches such as unit, integration and end-to-end testing
• Familiarity with testing frameworks such as RSpec, JUnit or Selenium
• Good working knowledge of at least one cloud based hosting platform such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
• Working knowledge of continuous integration and delivery/deployment tools like CircleCI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Services, Bamboo or TeamCity
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and effectively with people at all levels in an organization
• Skills to communicate complex ideas effectively
• Willing to travel up to 80%
• Fluent in English. Additional languages is a plus

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What You'll Do
You will be a part of analytics focused engagements across statistics, optimization & simulations, machine learning and Big Data. In this role, you will focus on advanced statistical analysis and machine learning algorithms, advising on state-of-the-art quantitative modeling techniques in order to derive business insights and solve complex business problems. You will gather and analyze information, formulate and test hypotheses, develop and communicate recommendations. You will also be responsible for presenting results to client leadership and implementing recommendations with client team members.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree in computer science, information technology or related fields with an excellent academic record
• 3+ years of experience building business algorithms/scenario planners/simulation engines to solve business problems
• Proven experience in working with large datasets and relational databases
• Advanced knowledge of statistical and machine learning techniques (regression, decision trees, clustering, neural networks, etc.)
• Hands-on experience in VBA, SQL/NoSQL, R, Python, etc.
• Experience in data extraction, transformation, cleaning, and validation
• Excellent problem-solving and quantitative skills, including the ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes and recommend solutions
• Experience implementing advanced analytics / data science models into a production environment is a plus
• Proven leadership with the ability to inspire others, build strong relationships, and create true followership, result-driven achievers
• Strong people skills, team-orientation, and a professional attitude
• Distinctive communications skills and ability to communicate analytical and technical content in an easy to understand way

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What You'll Do
You will manage the consulting staffing process including obtaining detailed information from partners regarding studies and staffing needs. In this role, you will develop professional relationships with consultants to understand their experience, aspirations and circumstances; providing coaching and guidance to the consultants on their staffing and professional development; recommending best available teams for each study, balancing client, team and individual needs; communicating decisions and rationale; coordinating with other relevant departments such as finance (e.g. on billing arrangements) and recruiting (e.g. on new hires).

You will also develop and implement tailored development and learning programs for the consultants, including new hire orientation and onboarding, leadership trainings, hard and soft skills trainings, etc. You will monitor and raise emerging people issues with office leadership and drive associated problem solving and programmer development as needed. You will also enhance consultant development by leading/participating in office initiatives such as cohort connectivity events, team talks, and development leader group meetings, etc.

You will maintain accurate and up-to-date information in all people information systems and develop these systems so that they are reliable and efficient. You will read analysis and reporting of key staffing and professional development metrics for local office leadership. You will develop a network of staffers / PD managers within the firm to facilitate inbound / outbound staffing assignments and to ensure the flow and implementation of best practices

You will manage other consultant personnel practices as needed e.g. budgets, leave processes, mobility etc. You will work on a variety of relevant ad hoc people projects as needed.

Qualifications

• University degree required; HR or other professional degree preferred
• 5+ years of previous experience in people related areas; especially in Diversity & Inclusion
• Familiarity with leadership and development programmers in South Africa
• Experience in mentoring, coaching and advising diverse profiles
• Strong passion for people development
• Ability to always maintain highest level of confidentiality
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and influencing skills
• Ability to build credible and trust-based relationships, sound judgement
• Team player with customer service attitude
• Excellent organizational and multitasking skills
• Ability to identify and manage priorities and deliver high quality outputs under deadline pressure
• Great sense of ownership and can-do attitude; drive to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the team and the work
• Ability to work independently, take appropriate initiative and problem solve

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What You'll Do

You will be responsible for designing and implementing strategies and activities to meet the goals of the Forward program with a focus on creating and maintaining a vibrant community of program alumni and outreach collaborators. You will shape, deliver, and scale professional development and community-building experiences for thousands of the Forward program’s alumni. You will both curate and execute these experiences end-to-end. You will identify and onboard faculty, experts and guests as needed.

In this role, you will create new and expanded volunteering opportunities that will foster positive alumni relations and contribute to the program across workshop facilitation, ambassadorship, and other areas. You will identify and engage with program ambassadors from within the community and work with them to create their own activities and content. You will find and develop impact stories that can be translated into case studies, interviews, and social media content.

You will solicit, manage and analyse feedback from the community to continuously improve program activities, content, and format through regular post-program surveys, in depth user interviews, co-creation sessions and focus groups. You will help identify and onboard the required technology tools that can aid in community engagement. You will help onboard users and foster engagement on relevant platforms.

You will develop and coordinate communications to the alumni community including, but not limited to, regular e-newsletters, content to be posted on social media and/or the alumni platform, FAQs, opportunity announcements etc. You will help establish and maintain a network of interested organizations (e.g., NGOs, universities, associations) that want to collaborate with Forward through referring candidates. You will present the program to them and keep them informed and engaged at critical milestones.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree
• 5+ years of experience in a relevant role involving large scale community building and management, preferably in a learning and professional development context
• A team-builder and collaborator. Evidence of an outstanding ability to build strong, durable communities and networks
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal) and customer service orientation and mindset
• Creative thinker and agile problem solver
• Proven project coordination skills and ability to progress multiple projects simultaneously
• Excellent ownership skills and high level of drive and initiative and a true self-starter
• Attention to detail and ability to proactively assess project status and highlight bottlenecks and risks