Building the future of tech - Europe

You will bring together the best of McKinsey’s digital capabilities to help our clients use digital technology to transform their businesses. You’ll join a global team working on everything from IT modernization and digital strategy to agile, cloud, advanced analytics and digital business building. You’ll typically work on projects across all industries and functions and will be fully integrated with the rest of our global firm.

• Bachelor’s degree, ideally in computer science, engineering—systems, electrical—or related technical fields; master’s or PhD level degree preferred
• Internships or prior work experience, ideally in an area with exposure to technological topics, such as software engineering, cloud computing, cybersecurity, IT architecture, agile, or transformation
• Proven record of leadership in a work setting or through extracurricular activities
• Interest in exploring the breadth of technology-related topics
• Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively to both colleagues and clients
• Enjoy working collaboratively in a team environment
• Local language is preferred

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

You will be a core member of the McKinsey consulting team with responsibilities that range from shaping product vision and strategic designs, to managing and transforming agile product and leadership teams. In this role, you will engage in some of the most challenging business problems our clients are facing. These projects can range from rapid process reinventions at leading financial institutions, big data analytics at large-scale retail organizations, to consumer-facing app development for traditional industries. As a product expert, you will typically be at the center of the problem solving, advising clients on how to successfully execute their strategic vision.

• University degree in computer science, business, IT, or other technical disciplines
• 4+ years of experience leading product efforts as a product owner or product manager in an agile environment
• Strong product acumen to build an outstanding product vision and a product roadmap to achieve it
• Deep knowledge of state-of-the-art product management tools and frameworks—in creating wireframes, writing user stories and developing acceptance criteria with the team, refining product backlogs
• Knowledge and understanding of best practices in technical product development, such as. test-driven development or continuous integration.
• Strong drive to relentlessly prioritize and align with team members, and business and IT stakeholders to ensure highest value capture
• Proficiency in approaches to user research
• Excellent analytical skills to constantly analyze customer feedback and data
• Strong coaching mindset—ability to train and develop team members into product roles, and an understanding of a modern product organization structure
• Excellent communication skills to engage with both senior business and IT executives as well as designers and software engineers
• English fluency required as well as German for Germany
• Willing to travel up to 60 percent of the time, especially across Western Europe

You will help build and sometimes lead new disruptive digital businesses for large organizations, driving lasting innovation.

This role provides the opportunity to work at the intersection of strategy consulting, technology and new ways of working. Depending on client needs, you will work with a team to either create a new digital unit for an existing business or incubate and ultimately scale a new stand-alone business. In both contexts, we start with a strong mandate for innovation and seed teams with Digital Labs practitioners—product owners, user-centric designers, engineers, agile experts and more—and a strong interim leadership team to operate the new entity. Together with your team, you will create a vision and roadmap. The new digital unit will look, feel and operate like a start-up and be a center of innovation.

• Bachelor’s degree required, ideally in a technical field; MBA or advanced degree is strongly preferred
• 7+ years of experience with 2+ years of consulting experience in a top-tier management consultancy, or equivalent large-scale corporate work
• 2+ years of experience in founding and leading a rapidly growing start-up or as an executive in the start-up ecosystem
• Experience in all aspects of building a high-growth company and teams, including concept, value proposition, strategy, funding, technology, branding, go-to-market strategy, and team building
• Experience and expertise driving rapid and successful digital transformation, helping frame, design, and execute solutions for challenging business problems
• Extensive experience leading cross-functional teams and managing technical or analytics teams, both on- and off-shore
• Experience working with and closely managing C-level corporate stakeholders
• Comfortable functioning at the highest levels of client organizations
• Willingness to travel
• Local language is preferred

You will work in multi-disciplinary environments harnessing data to provide real-world impact for organizations globally. You will influence many of the recommendations our clients need to positively change their businesses and enhance performance. You will work on the frameworks and libraries that our teams of data scientists and data engineers use to progress from data to impact. You will guide global companies through data science solutions across industries including healthcare, automotive, energy and elite sport.

• Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent experience
• Up to five years of commercial experience in a data-driven role
• Ability to write clean, maintainable and robust code in Python, Scala, Java or similar languages
• Knowledge of software engineering concepts and best practices
• Familiarity with the latest operational support systems (OSS), cloud, container, query languages and database technologies
• Confirmed experience building data pipelines in production and ability to work across structured, semi-structured and unstructured data
• Experience preparing data for analytics and following a data science workflow
• Commercial client-facing or senior stakeholder management experience
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively—both verbally and in writing—in English
• Knowledge of local language is a plus

You will use data creatively to solve business challenges, often uncovering new and transformative opportunities along the way. In this role, you will apply state-of-the-art advanced analytics, quantitative tools, and modeling techniques to interpret, make inferences, and offer recommendations based on insights from the data. You will create new algorithms from scratch.

• Undergraduate degree in mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science or engineering required
• Up to three years of professional experience in programming; experience applying to business problems is a plus
• Programming (focus on machine learning): Python (must), R (highly valued), SPSS, SAS, Ruby, Hadoop (valued)
• Data treatment or data mining, such as SQL, AWK, Access, Spark and Excel (highly valued)
• Statistical knowledge is a plus
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively—both verbally and in writing—in English
• Knowledge of local language is a plus

You will develop new products leveraging cloud technologies and microservices architecture patterns. You will be an active learner, identifying new open source libraries, using unfamiliar technologies and learning new programming languages to meet technical requirements.

In teams, you will contribute to the architecture across the technology stack from database to native apps. You will create rapid prototypes as well as full-scale applications typically within two-to-three months, by working collaboratively and iteratively through design and development to deliver fully functional web-based and mobile applications that meet business goals.

• 5+ years of experience as a hands-on technical individual contributor on software development projects
• Experience in modern architecture patterns—microservices, reactive architectures, event-driven architectures)
• 5+ years of programming experience in at least two modern programming languages or frameworks such as JavaScript, React, Node.js, Java, Kotlin, Python, Pandas, TensorFlow, Go
• Experience working with HTML or CSS and at least one modern JavaScript framework such as React.js, Vue.js, Hapi.js, Ember.js, Angular.js
• Experience writing and utilizing RESTful API services and performance tuning large scale applications
• Experience with cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure or GCP, and containerization, such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases—PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Cassandra
• Experience in engineering practices such as code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, test-driven development, continuous integration, continuous delivery, building highly scalable applications, application security
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and working knowledge of DevOps principles
• Ability to interact with people at all levels in an organization
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively
• Willing to travel up to 50 percent of the time especially across Western Europe
• Local language is preferred

As a cloud engineer, you will play a critical role in driving the design, development and implementation of diverse public cloud initiatives—AWS, Azure, GCP. You will be responsible for providing cutting-edge technology solutions to Fortune 500 enterprises.

Your work will be hands on in the creation of software components, modules and integrations. You will also create software testing implementations including unit, functional, acceptance, performance and security tests. As a cloud engineer, you will be a key team member in development cycles and provide feedback on technical constraints. You will implement dynamically scalable and highly available services and deploy production systems into cloud environments.

• 3+ years experience in driving the strategy, architecture, design and implementation of cloud initiatives
• Deep expertise with AWS, Azure or GCP
• Good understanding of container orchestration platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, ECS or others
• Experience in Python and Bash; another language, such as NodeJS, Golang, Ruby or PowerShell, is a plus
• Strong experience using infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform, Cloudformation or others
• Strong DevOps automation experience including set-up and configuration of CI/CD pipelines and surrounding ecosystem
• Ability to work independently and within a team
• Work proficiency in English as well as German for Germany or Spanish for Spain

You will apply the human-centered design approach on a variety of projects that integrate digital designs into products, services and environments.

In this role, you will be responsible for key design deliverables across a variety of stages and client priorities, from research and insight generation to concept and delivery. As a member of our team, you will join in our significant and serious efforts to embed design into strategic problems. On your projects, you will work on blended cross-functional teams and will tackle all aspects of the design process. You will think creatively and strategically, dissecting business problems and using design methodologies to develop innovative outcomes.

• Bachelor's or master's degree in interaction design, interface design, human computer interaction, fine arts or service, graphic, communication design with an emphasis on UX or equivalent qualification
• Internship or prior work experience designing applications, experiences, websites, products and services that balance user needs, business objectives and technological constraints
• Strong interaction and visual design skills using a diverse set of software and rapid prototyping tools such as Adobe CS, Sketch, Figma, InVision
• Familiarity with Agile software development process and tools such as Jira, Confluence; Trello is a plus
• Entrepreneurial, experimental and self-driven while also being collaborative
• Strong organizational and time management skills; ability to work in a constantly changing, fast-paced environment
• Willingness to travel and spend time onsite with clients and other teams

Functional Analyst: You will help teams in creating value and accelerating the delivery of S/4 HANA-based business transformations.

In this role, you will intervene at each step of the lifecycle of the business transformation. You will drive value identification at the sub-process level based on new functional capabilities of the S/4 HANA solution but also on best practices for the operating model for the function in your scope of expertise. During the implementation, using our Agile ERP approach, you will be a leader and challenger in business process design or fit-gap sessions as well as advisor for complex functional deliverables of the system integrator such as organization structure, master data, configuration and customization choices.

Solution Architect: You will engage with our world-class consulting, engineering and program teams to lead large scale ERP implementations for external clients.

In this role, you will operate cross-functionally in ERP initiatives and translate client business needs to an ERP and business systems architecture while running diagnostics of ERP environments to make recommendations of the optimal enterprise systems architecture. Using best practices, you will architect SAP solutions for deployment, configuration, and operations that are simple and have scalability, maintainability, and resiliency. You will focus on business drivers and system functionality to influence senior firm and client stakeholders while providing architecture and delivery of the full ERP and business system vision.

Program Manager: You will lead the day-to-day execution and management of large-scale strategic S/4 HANA implementations, while guiding and developing individual team members.

• University degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent area
• 4+ years of experience in ERP transformation programs and at least one full lifecycle of S/4HANA implementation with mastership in initial process design
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to collaborate effectively at all levels of an organization and to work both independently and in various team settings
• Ability to work under pressure and manage client expectations effectively
• Excellent communication skills—ability to explain and present complex information and influence senior business and IT executives on technology decisions
• Local language is preferred
• Flexibility to travel

Requirements might differ depending on role

You will work as part of a client team with colleagues from across the firm to help our clients launch agile marketing and personalization programs at scale, enabled by data and technology.

You will apply your distinctive level of subject matter expertise to develop and deliver specific performance marketing strategies and programs that accelerate customer acquisition and customer value across channels. This will entail making daily optimization recommendations and at times may also include campaign operations within the advertising and marketing technology platforms.

You will also contribute to defining the implications to the client operating model, new roles and organization implications and operating processes. You will also contribute to the strategies and solutions for marketing technology. Leveraging your expertise, you’ll help advance McKinsey’s overall knowledge base by contributing to and expanding our diagnostic and assessment toolkit and approaches. You will also develop new frameworks, approaches and techniques in addition to building on existing ones.

• 3+ years of experience executing or leading at-scale performance marketing programs for digital agencies or client marketing organizations
• Strong track record delivering customer acquisition performance and managing performance marketing channels—SEM, paid social, display and programmatic, as well as affiliate and email
• Experience managing conversion rate optimization and A/B testing
• Experience utilizing first- and third-party data for segmentation, audience creation, targeting, and personalization
• Deep understanding of the advertising technology ecosystem, with hands-on experience with bid managers, ad-servers, DMPs and DSPs
• Experience with marketing analytics and attribution
• Demonstrated aptitude for analytics
• Ability to think quickly and critically on a broad range of digital marketing topics across various verticals
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills—ability to communicate with senior marketing leaders and IT leaders
• Willingness to travel
• Proficiency in English and Spanish