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Principal Data Scientist - BCG X & BCG Fed
Principal Data Scientist - BCG X & BCG Fed-March 2024
Pittsburgh
Mar 28, 2026
About Principal Data Scientist - BCG X & BCG Fed

  Who We Are

  Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

  To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures-and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

  BCG X

  BCG X is the tech build & design unit of BCG. Turbocharging BCG's deep industry and functional expertise, BCG X brings together advanced tech knowledge and ambitious entrepreneurship to help organizations enable innovation at scale. With nearly 3,000 technologists, scientists, programmers, engineers, and human-centered designers located across 80+ cities, BCG X builds and designs platforms and software to address the world's most important challenges and opportunities. Teaming across our practices, and in close collaboration with our clients, our end-to-end global team unlocks new possibilities. Together we're creating the bold and disruptive products, services, and businesses of tomorrow.

  Practice Area Profile

  What You'll Do

  Our BCG X teams own the full analytics value-chain end to end: framing new business challenges, designing innovative algorithms, implementing, and deploying scalable solutions, and enabling colleagues and clients to fully embrace AI. Our product offerings span from fully custom-builds to industry specific leading edge AI software solutions.

  As a Principal Data Scientist, you'll be part of our rapidly growing team to apply data science methods and analytics to real-world business situations across industries to drive significant business impact. You will collaborate on interdisciplinary teams of BCG X engineers, researchers, technical experts, designers, and BCG consultants to design, build, and deploy new and innovative solutions. In this role, you will apply your sound technical know-how, understanding of business contexts, and analytical skills to enable organizations to technically transform.

  Additional responsibilities will include developing and delivering thought leadership in scientific communities and papers as well as leading conferences on behalf of BCG X. Successful candidates are intellectually curious builders who are biased toward action, creative, and communicative.

  NOTE: This role is specifically seeking a leader to serve primarily in the US Public Sector as part of BCG X's Data Science chapter, but also open to commercial and private sector engagements where required.

  Ideal candidate requirements given client and contract / portfolio requirements include US Citizenship, active security clearance (e.g. DoD Secret / Top Secret), prior expertise with portfolio and project management of US federal government agencies in a technology consulting context is preferred.

  What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

  We are looking for dedicated individuals with a passion for data science, statistics, operations research and redefining organizations into AI led innovative companies. Successful candidates possess the following:

  At least 8 years of data science experience; prior professional services experience a plus

  Comfortable in a client-facing role with experience leading teams

  Likes to distill complex results or processes into simple, clear visualizations

  Explain sophisticated data science concepts in an understandable manner

  Love building things and are comfortable working with modern development tools and writing code collaboratively

  Significant experience applying advanced analytics to a variety of business situations and a proven ability to synthesize complex data

  Deep understanding of modern machine learning techniques and their mathematical underpinnings, and can translate this into business implications for our clients

  Have strong project management skills

  TECHNOLOGIES:

  Programming Languages: Python

  Location: Strong preference for Washington, DC. Open to Boston, Brooklyn, New York, Atlanta, and Pittsburgh.

  The first-year base compensation for this role is $252,900 USD.

  FOR U.S. APPLICANTS: Boston Consulting Company ("BCG") is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

  In addition to your base salary, you will also be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus and BCG's Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution. BCG also provides a market leading benefits package described below.

  At BCG, we are committed to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes everything our employees and their families need to be well and live life to the fullest. We pay the full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees - and their eligible family members. That's zero dollars in premiums taken from employee paychecks. All our plans provide best in class coverage:

  Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children

  Low $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs

  Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 in orthodontia benefits

  Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually

  Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities

  Fully vested Profit Sharing Retirement Fund contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not, plus the option for employees to make personal contributions to a 401(k) plan

  Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement

  Generous paid time off including 12 holidays per year, an annual office closure between Christmas and New Years, and 15 vacation days per year (earned at 1.25 days per month)

  Paid sick time on an as needed basis

  Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.

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