Technical Lead - McKinsey Digital

Who You'll Work With

You'll work in our Cairo, Doha or Riyadh office and be part of McKinsey
Digital. This group 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 McKinsey & Company to help our
clients deliver breakthrough products, experiences, and businesses, both on
technology and non-technology topics.
When you join McKinsey, you are joining a firm whose culture is distinctive
and inclusive. We will accelerate your development as a leader to create
positive, enduring change in the world.

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.
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.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate or masters degree; or equivalent work experience


• ‎8+ years of experience in software development, including leading a team and a project work stream


• Strong hands on knowledge of Java and related frameworks, J2EE and springboot


• Working knowledge of Dev-Ops tooling pipeline


• Practical experience of setting up micro-services based architectures, preferably in financial services and telco space


• 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


• Familiarity with testing frameworks such as RSpec, JUnit or Selenium


• Demonstrated track record of successfully understanding the business requirements and designing realistic and effective solutions


• 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