Job description
Expert Senior Manager Software Engineering
Company Overview
Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future. Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes.
Job Summary
You’ll join our Engineering experts within the AI, Insights & Solutions team. As an Expert Senior Manager, Software Engineering, you will lead the strategy, architecture, development, and deployment of software applications that address complex business and technology problems in various industries. You will mentor and guide a diverse engineering team through the entire engineering life cycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Shape and scope client solutions by partnering with Bain consulting teams, product owners, and client stakeholders.
- Lead end-to-end client solution development from business problem framing through architecture, execution, deployment, and adoption.
- Be responsible as a technical leader for the successful delivery of scalable, resilient, and high-quality software systems.
- Lead cross-functional teams of designers, engineers, data scientists, and consultants.
- Define and drive software engineering best practices across the full software production lifecycle.
- Bring hands-on engineering expertise (e.g., building production-grade software, APIs, microservices, CI/CD, observability).
- Guide the development of abstract libraries and software components to accelerate delivery.
- Work with senior leaders to maintain a working environment that attracts talent and fosters continuous learning.
- Coach and develop software engineers across frontend, backend, platform, DevOps and AI.
- Act as Professional Development Advisor for colleagues as needed.
- Lead recruiting and onboarding for team members.
Requirements / Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of relevant professional hands-on experience in software development, version control, software design patterns, and testing.
- 3+ years of experience leading and managing software engineers.
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into solutions.
- Experience supporting strategy, operating model, transformation, or change initiatives.
- Track record of leading and collaborating on strategic initiatives in complex environments.
- Experience with production-grade, enterprise-scale AI applications and data analytics products.
- Expert knowledge of Python, JavaScript and one or more additional programming languages.
- Experience building server-side services using FastAPI, Node.js/Express, Flask, Django, .NET Core or Java Spring Boot or similar.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation or Bicep).
- Solid computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, and architecture design.
- Experience with data security, privacy regulations, and cybersecurity.
- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Professional fluency in English and German.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with modern AI/ML development (LLM APIs, prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, agentic SDKs, AI safety).
- Hands-on experience with modern web technologies (React, Angular, Vue.js, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3).
- Agile delivery mindset (Scrum or Kanban, story-point estimation, Git-based workflows).
Travel Requirements
Travel is required. This position requires regional travel away from your home office/primary working location. Travel frequency and destinations will vary based on project needs.
