Oliver Wyman - Principal Data Engineer

Locations: Boston, New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Toronto, Montreal

Principal Engineer

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Who We Are

Oliver Wyman Performance Transformation

is a ground-breaking division within Oliver Wyman delivering world-class solutions to give our clients a competitive edge. We work across the full technology stack from databases and analytics to APIs and web and mobile applications. With a mixture of over 700 consultants, specialists and support professionals in 16 major cities across the world, we’re committed to growth that retains our start-up agility while expanding our opportunities for world-class work.

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With a staff of over 4000 across 30 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation.

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The Role And Responsibilities

No two OW Performance Transformation projects are the same . You’ll be working with hugely varied and diverse teams to deliver unique and unprecedented strategy and product delivery across industries. The Principal Engineer at Oliver Wyman Performance Transformation is crucial to defining, designing, and delivering solutions that achieve breakthrough impact for our clients – all enabled by best-in-class DevSecOps model, Agile practices, architecture and tech stack.

As a Principal Engineer , you will work alongside Oliver Wyman partners in Performance Transformation and other practice groups, engage directly with clients to understand their business challenges, and craft optimal solutions to be delivered by OW Performance Transformation specialists and consultants delivering strategy, or products into production. You will own all technology and engineering responsibilities for a cross-functional team covering technology, data science, customer experience and design.

When you are a product builder, you will be hands-on defining the architecture, tech stack, leading the engineering team while working with the product owner and designer. You will be instrumental in helping to validate build feasibility, operating costs, handle risk as well as key aspects of security, performance, resiliency, and scalability. Cost benefit and trade-off analysis will be key as you work with the team to build something amazing.

You will collocate with the team regularly or occasionally, working remotely at other times.

We’re also hoping you’ll be able to bring us experience with at least one of the following:

• Financial services and/or capital markets
• Health and life sciences domain
• Insurance (individual or group)
• Consumer, retail, energy, or transportation domain

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Your Experience

We believe in and practice servant leadership here, so your primary goal is to bring the best out of the other talented technologists on the team, not to do it all yourself.

What you’ll get to do:

• Provide hands-on technical leadership, training and mentoring staff
• Develop DevSecOps, CI/CD, release engineering strategies applying DORA, SPACE, and other industry leading metrics advocating developer productivity and product stability
• Lead change management initiatives, helping our clients navigate and embrace new ways of working
• Help to improve the OW Performance Transformation Architecture and Engineering specialty
• Design and architect innovative, modern cloud-native digital experiences that are scalable, resilient, and secure
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Write code alongside your development team
• Work with state-of-the-art technologies to solve genuine, real-world problems
• Champion good agile practices that provide a foundation for iterative product development
• Build strong relationships with product managers, designers, customer experience and human insights experts
• Enjoy working in a diverse, dynamic, collaborative, transparent, environment where everyone's ideas and opinions are equally valued
• Cross-pollinate good practices and insights between projects and groups within the firm
• Travel 10 – 25% of the time to collaborate with distributed teams or clients as needed

What you’ll bring:

For the Principal Engineer role, we are looking for senior hands-on technologists with 10+ years of extensive software engineering experience. The ideal candidate is an excellent communicator and has experience working with both technical and non-technical colleagues in a cross-functional environment. The ideal candidate also has experience pitching and explaining technical architecture and strategy to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Additionally, you should bring:

• Experience with scalable architecture whilst leading and inspiring software development teams
• Hands-on development and delivery experience with a broad mix of languages and technologies
• Real passion for solving customer friction through simple and effective software
• Strong people skills that contribute to an open and collaborative environment
• Experience working with Agile and Lean approaches such as Continuous Integration and Delivery, TDD, and Rapid Prototyping
• Experience communicating technical vision to a variety of team members
• Ability to embrace and reduce uncertainty through continual validated learning
• Practical experience with refactoring, design patterns, design driven development, system and application design, and application security
• Experience with small teams that move fast

We’re also hoping you’ll be able to show us experience with some of the following. You don't need deep experience with everything here to apply; still, some depth in one or more of these will go a long way:

• How to work with structured and unstructured data
• Multiple programming languages and frameworks with in-depth skills in at least one of the following: JavaScript, NodeJS, React, Python, Go, .NET
• Designing and deploying applications on cloud native infrastructure with providers such as AWS, Azure, or Google using patterns such as serverless or managed services
• Container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes and microservices
• Infrastructure as Code such as AWS CloudFormation and Terraform
• Ideally some familiarity with CX and HTML5/CSS3
• Search technologies such as Elastic / ELK or LucidWorks
• Authentication/Authorization APIs such as OKTA

What we offer you:

• An opportunity to play a key role in the design, development and commercialization of software and hardware products aimed at disrupting B2B and B2C markets across a wide range of business domains.
• Help our clients across a variety of industries think deeply about their engineering and technical strategy ranging from organizational transformation to product re-engineering
• The opportunity to work within a deeply accomplished team with direct exposure to some of the world's most influential organizations.
• A structured career development program with both technical and leadership tracks.
• A competitive salary and benefits complemented with a flexible learning & development budget (including attending conferences), enabling you to choose the right path for your own development.
• A level of autonomy and self-management that you won’t typically find at other companies.

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OUR VALUES & CULTURE

We’re serious about making OW Performance Transformation a rewarding, enjoyable, and balanced place to work.

• Rewarding work We’ve worked hard to earn our reputation for high quality work. That reputation allows us to work with major brands at all levels on incredibly exciting projects. Combine that with Oliver Wyman’s status as one of the Fortune 100 “Best Companies to Work For”, and you get a rewarding combination of challenge, support and recognition.
• Progressive employment Flat organizational structures, resolute I&D values and a commitment to rewarding good work make for a progression path truly based on merit. A menu of healthcare options, 401k matching, and a culture of continuous improvement means your work gets more rewarding over time. We are committed to providing our people with growth opportunities via professional training, personal development, and diverse roles and responsibilities.
• Enjoyable days We want our team members to build a career here—and to be happy. That makes us serious about caring for, mentoring, developing and sponsoring each other. This commitment also leads to opportunities for social impact and community work on company time.
• Balanced lives Our work is demanding, and we want you to have the best work-life balance you can.

We’ll work with you to accommodate your personal life with flexible hours and the ability to work from home.

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How To Apply

If you like what you’ve read, we’d love to hear from you! You can find this and other roles and submit your CV at And please include a short note introducing yourself and what you’re looking for.

The application process will include both technical testing and team fit interviews.

Oliver Wyman is an equal opportunity employer.

Our commitment to diversity is genuine, deep and growing. We’re not perfect, but we’re working hard right now to make our teams balanced, representative and diverse.

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About Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in more than 70 cities across 30 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation. The firm has more than 6,000 professionals around the world who work with clients to optimize their business, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Oliver Wyman is a business of Marsh McLennan [NYSE: MMC]. For more information, visit Follow Oliver Wyman on Twitter @OliverWyman.

Marsh McLennan and its Affiliates are EOE Minority/Female/Disability/Vet/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity employers.

The applicable base salary range for this role is $240,000-$260,000.

The base pay offered will be determined on factors such as experience, skills, training, location, certifications, and education, and any applicable minimum wage requirements. Decisions will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

In addition to the base salary, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.

We are excited to offer a competitive total rewards package which includes health and welfare benefits, tuition assistance, 401K savings and other retirement programs as well as employee assistance programs.

Oliver Wyman is a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit oliverwyman.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X. 

Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, veteran status (including protected veterans), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by contacting [email protected].

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.

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