Job Openings at McKinsey & Company

Qualifications

• Undergraduate 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 XML, Javascript, Oracle, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Java, HTML, CSS
• Engineering practice experience such as code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, continuous integration, building highly scalable applications, application security
• Demonstrated track record of successfully understanding the business requirements and designing realistic and effective solutions
• Knowledge of Agile software development process
• Familiarity with testing frameworks such as RSpec, JUnit or Selenium
• 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 language fluency is a plus

Who You'll Work With

You’ll work with Digital McKinsey in our Nairobi, Kenya office.

McKinsey Digital brings together the best of McKinsey’s digital capabilities to help our clients use digital technology to transform their businesses. As part of this group, you’ll join a global team working on everything from IT modernization and strategy to agile, cloud, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. You’ll typically work on projects across all industries and functions and will be fully integrated with the rest of our global firm.

You’ll also work with colleagues from across our firm to help our clients deliver breakthrough products, experiences, and businesses, both on technology and non-technology topics. Our office culture is casual, fun and social, with an emphasis on education and innovation. We have the freedom to try new ideas, experiment and are expected to be constantly learning and growing. There is also a strong emphasis on mentoring others in the group, enabling them to grow and learn.

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 consultants with the solutions they need. You will help combine the latest open source technologies together with traditional Enterprise software products.

As a Tech 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.

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Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Maths, Statistics, Physics, Engineering or eqiuivelent
• 2 - 4 years of professional experience in programming; experience applied to business problems is a plus
• Programming (focus on Machine Learning) R and/or Python (must), SPSS, SAS, Ruby, Hadoop (valued)
• Data treatment/Data mining SQL, AWK, Access, Spark, Excel (valued)
• Statistical knowledge is a plus
• Demonstrated aptitude for analytics
• Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and effectively with people at all levels in an organization
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively – both verbally and in writing – in English
• Additional languages is a plus

Who You'll Work With

You’ll work with our Advanced Analytics team in Nairobi, Kenya. This global practice supports clients in many different industries facing challenges of developing and implementing tailored concepts for prediction and prescription amongst others.
What You'll Do

You will focus on the development of Advanced Analytics models to optimize underlying business problems.

As a Data Scientist, you will shape the future of what data-driven organizations look like, drive processes for extracting and using that data in creative ways, and create new lines of thinking within an infinite number of clients and situations.

You will create valuable, transformative business strategies through the measurement, manipulation, reporting, and dissemination of broad sets of data. You will apply and advise on state-of-the-art advanced analytic and quantitative tools and modeling techniques in order to derive business insights, solve complex business problems and improve decisions. You will review, support and advise on the day-to-day analytics requirements of clients’ key operational processes while continually improving the impact of these processes.

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Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business or equivalent degree
• 4-6 years of experience leading agile projects as a product owner and/or product manager
• Experience leading product and/or cross functional teams
• Experience as both a team member and coach in the agile product owner roles
• Experience with building consumer quality products, enabling business capability and objectives through technology
• Strong product instinct to build great product vision, product roadmap and competitive analysis
• Knowledge and understanding of technical engineering best practices (e.g., test driven development, continuous integration, etc.)
• Excellent knowledge on tracking and analytics setup
• Proficient with drawing storyboards, creating wireframes, creating or grooming product backlogs, writing user stories and developing acceptance criteria
• Relentless prioritization and alignment with business and IT stakeholders to ensure highest value capture
• Excellent project manager that can plan 2-3 steps ahead of the team and surface hidden risks 2-3 levels deep within the team
• Ability to work at an abstract level and continuously ‘pivot’ to arrive at the highest impact answer for the client
• Ability to work under pressure, manage client expectations effective and not get overwhelmed by client pressures on team
• Excellent analytical skills, and data driven approach to constantly analyse user feedback and analytics report
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior client business and IT executives on transforming towards agile
• Ability to move between strategic discussions with senior client leaders to tackle on the ground agile coaching with teams
• Experience working with design team to deliver top user experience (UX) and user interface (UI)
• Willingness to travel

Who You'll Work With

You’ll work with McKinsey Digital in our Nairobi, Kenya office.

McKinsey Digital brings together the best of McKinsey’s digital capabilities to help our clients use digital technology to transform their businesses. As part of this group, you’ll join a global team working on everything from IT modernization and strategy to agile, cloud, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. You’ll typically work on projects across all industries and functions and will be fully integrated with the rest of our global firm.

You’ll also work with colleagues from across our firm to help our clients deliver breakthrough products, experiences, and businesses, both on technology and non-technology topics. Our office culture is casual, fun and social, with an emphasis on education and innovation. We have the freedom to try new ideas, experiment and are expected to be constantly learning and growing. There is also a strong emphasis on mentoring others in the group, enabling them to grow and learn.
What You'll Do

You will lead the execution of digital product development and transformation projects for leading industry players in the region.

You will be a core member of the McKinsey consulting team with responsibilities that range from shaping product vision, strategic designs to managing and transforming agile product and leadership teams. In this role, you will engage on some of the most challenging business problems facing our clients. These projects can range from rapid process re-inventions at leading financial institutions, ‘big data’ analytics at large scale retail organizations, to consumer facing app development for traditional industries. In each situation, as a Product Owner, you will typically be at the centre of the problem solving, advising our most senior clients on how to successful execute on their strategic vision with digital means.

You will leverage your experience with all aspects of the product, process and technology. You will be at the intersection of business strategy, client and implementation vendors and you'll be responsible for translating abstract visions into reality, while managing client expectations as well as vendor efficiency. You will also leverage your proficiency in all aspects of the agile deliverables required for a technology team to build beautiful products. This includes hands on development of storyboards, wireframes, product prioritization, backlog, user stories, product KPI, monitoring/tracking and commercialization.