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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.
Join our Data Platform Engineering portfolio, a global team building and operating the database infrastructure that powers BCG’s data products, analytics, and AI capabilities across Case Teams, Practice Areas, and Business Systems.
As a Principal Database Platform Engineer, you will take end-to-end ownership of cloud-native database platforms, with a primary focus on AWS. This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role focused on designing for scale and reliability, driving automation, and setting the platform standards that engineering teams across the firm depend on.
This role suits an engineer who has operated at a senior level before – someone who identifies what needs to be built, makes sound technical decisions, and delivers without requiring step-by-step direction. We are looking for a strong cloud database engineer with the curiosity and drive to grow into AI-enabling database infrastructure as BCG’s needs evolve.
Platform Engineering & Automation
- Design and operate cloud-native database platforms on AWS, with a focus on scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency
- Build automated, self-service capabilities using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD, and Git-based workflows
Architecture & Standards
- Define and implement reusable platform patterns, standards, and guardrails across a multi-cloud environment
- Act as a technical leader where required, translating business and engineering needs into scalable database platform designs
Reliability, Security & Cost Optimization
- Embed SRE principles including observability, performance tuning, and incident response into day-to-day operations
- Ensure secure-by-design practices across identity, access management, and data protection
- Drive cloud cost transparency and optimization through FinOps disciplines, including tagging, attribution, and rightsizing
Stakeholder Enablement & Collaboration
- Partner with architecture, application, and data teams to translate needs into practical platform solutions
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers
- Lead design and architecture reviews aligned to enterprise standards
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Evaluate emerging database technologies and lead proofs of concept as BCG’s AI and data needs evolve
- Support and enable AI and analytics use cases through modern database platform capabilities
You’re Good At
- Communicating clearly – able to translate technical decisions and trade-offs into terms that resonate with non-technical stakeholders
- Working across global, cross-functional teams and building effective partnerships across disciplines
- Approaching problems with analytical rigor and a practical engineering mindset
- Prioritizing and delivering in a fast-moving environment without losing sight of quality or standards
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 8 to 10 years of experience in database, platform, or infrastructure engineering
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and AWS-managed database services – DynamoDB, OpenSearch, or similar – in production environments
- Experience with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation
- Solid understanding of how databases perform at scale – query performance, indexing, and data distribution
- Self-directed and hands-on – you own the problem end to end, from design through to delivery
- Genuine interest in how database platforms are evolving, particularly in the context of AI and analytics
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience across more than one cloud provider – Azure or GCP alongside AWS
- Familiarity with graph, document, or NoSQL databases – Neptune, DocumentDB, MongoDB, or equivalent
- Exposure to vector search or pgvector for AI and GenAI workloads
- Experience with analytics platforms such as Databricks or BigQuery
- Familiarity with RAG pipelines, embedding stores, or modern AI data architectures
- Working knowledge of cloud security practices – IAM, least-privilege, data protection
- Exposure to FinOps, SRE, or enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF
- Experience mentoring engineers or contributing to architecture reviews
- Relational database background (MSSQL, Oracle) – useful context, but not the focus of this role
Who You'll Work With
- Enterprise and Solution Architecture teams
- Data & Analytics platforms – Databricks, BigQuery
- Application development teams and product owners
- Cloud, security, and infrastructure teams
- Managed service providers and technology partners
Additional info
For US locations only
In the US, we have a compensation transparency approach.
Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, retirement contribution, and a market leading benefits package described below.
- The base salary range for this role begins at $143,000 in our lowest cost US region and goes up to $186,330 in our highest cost US region. Your recruiting contact can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
This is an estimated range, however, specific base salaries within the range depend on various factors such as experience and skill set. It is not common for new BCG employees to be hired at the high-end of the salary range. BCG regularly reviews its ranges to ensure market competitiveness.
In addition to your base salary, your total compensation will include a bonus of up to 20% and a generous retirement contribution that starts at 5% and moves to 10% after 2 years.
All of 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
Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
Locations: Boston | Atlanta
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.
Join our Data Platform Engineering portfolio, a global team building and operating the database infrastructure that powers BCG’s data products, analytics, and AI capabilities across Case Teams, Practice Areas, and Business Systems.
As a Principal Database Platform Engineer, you will take end-to-end ownership of cloud-native database platforms, with a primary focus on AWS. This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role focused on designing for scale and reliability, driving automation, and setting the platform standards that engineering teams across the firm depend on.
This role suits an engineer who has operated at a senior level before – someone who identifies what needs to be built, makes sound technical decisions, and delivers without requiring step-by-step direction. We are looking for a strong cloud database engineer with the curiosity and drive to grow into AI-enabling database infrastructure as BCG’s needs evolve.
Platform Engineering & Automation
- Design and operate cloud-native database platforms on AWS, with a focus on scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency
- Build automated, self-service capabilities using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD, and Git-based workflows
Architecture & Standards
- Define and implement reusable platform patterns, standards, and guardrails across a multi-cloud environment
- Act as a technical leader where required, translating business and engineering needs into scalable database platform designs
Reliability, Security & Cost Optimization
- Embed SRE principles including observability, performance tuning, and incident response into day-to-day operations
- Ensure secure-by-design practices across identity, access management, and data protection
- Drive cloud cost transparency and optimization through FinOps disciplines, including tagging, attribution, and rightsizing
Stakeholder Enablement & Collaboration
- Partner with architecture, application, and data teams to translate needs into practical platform solutions
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers
- Lead design and architecture reviews aligned to enterprise standards
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Evaluate emerging database technologies and lead proofs of concept as BCG’s AI and data needs evolve
- Support and enable AI and analytics use cases through modern database platform capabilities
You’re Good At
- Communicating clearly – able to translate technical decisions and trade-offs into terms that resonate with non-technical stakeholders
- Working across global, cross-functional teams and building effective partnerships across disciplines
- Approaching problems with analytical rigor and a practical engineering mindset
- Prioritizing and delivering in a fast-moving environment without losing sight of quality or standards
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 8 to 10 years of experience in database, platform, or infrastructure engineering
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and AWS-managed database services – DynamoDB, OpenSearch, or similar – in production environments
- Experience with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation
- Solid understanding of how databases perform at scale – query performance, indexing, and data distribution
- Self-directed and hands-on – you own the problem end to end, from design through to delivery
- Genuine interest in how database platforms are evolving, particularly in the context of AI and analytics
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience across more than one cloud provider – Azure or GCP alongside AWS
- Familiarity with graph, document, or NoSQL databases – Neptune, DocumentDB, MongoDB, or equivalent
- Exposure to vector search or pgvector for AI and GenAI workloads
- Experience with analytics platforms such as Databricks or BigQuery
- Familiarity with RAG pipelines, embedding stores, or modern AI data architectures
- Working knowledge of cloud security practices – IAM, least-privilege, data protection
- Exposure to FinOps, SRE, or enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF
- Experience mentoring engineers or contributing to architecture reviews
- Relational database background (MSSQL, Oracle) – useful context, but not the focus of this role
Who You'll Work With
- Enterprise and Solution Architecture teams
- Data & Analytics platforms – Databricks, BigQuery
- Application development teams and product owners
- Cloud, security, and infrastructure teams
- Managed service providers and technology partners
Additional info
For US locations only
In the US, we have a compensation transparency approach.
Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, retirement contribution, and a market leading benefits package described below.
- The base salary range for this role begins at $143,000 in our lowest cost US region and goes up to $186,330 in our highest cost US region. Your recruiting contact can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
This is an estimated range, however, specific base salaries within the range depend on various factors such as experience and skill set. It is not common for new BCG employees to be hired at the high-end of the salary range. BCG regularly reviews its ranges to ensure market competitiveness.
In addition to your base salary, your total compensation will include a bonus of up to 20% and a generous retirement contribution that starts at 5% and moves to 10% after 2 years.
All of 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
Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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Verify your credential equivalency early
Singapore's National Institute of Education postgraduate qualifications generally map to U.S. master's-level programs, but your employer's HR team will need documentation confirming equivalency. Request an official academic credential evaluation from a NACES-recognized agency before your first employer conversation.
Target districts with active H-1B1 filing history
Use Migrate Mate to filter Principal openings by employers who have previously sponsored H-1B1 Singapore visas, so you're applying where the hiring team already understands the consular process and LCA filing requirements.
Check the prevailing wage before negotiating salary
Your employer must file a Labor Condition Application certifying your salary meets the DOL prevailing wage for Principals in that geographic area. Run the OFLC Wage Search for SOC code 11-9032 before entering offer negotiations so you're not caught short by LCA compliance requirements.
Confirm the school district can sponsor nonimmigrant workers
Public school districts are public entities and some have internal policies or state procurement rules that complicate employer-sponsored nonimmigrant visas. Ask the district's legal counsel or HR director directly whether they've sponsored H-1B1 visa or H-1B visa workers before accepting an offer.
Secure state administrator licensure before your interview
Most U.S. states require Principals to hold a state-issued administrator or superintendent certificate. Applying for reciprocity or a provisional license from Singapore credentials takes two to four months, so start the state licensing process before you submit applications.
Prepare your consular packet once the LCA is certified
Unlike H-1B, H-1B1 Singapore is processed directly at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore after your employer's LCA is certified by DOL. Gather your DS-160, certified LCA, appointment letter, and degree transcripts immediately after certification so you're not delaying your start date.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Principal role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B1 Singapore purposes?
Yes. The Principal occupation, classified under SOC code 11-9032, requires a master's degree or higher in educational leadership, school administration, or a directly related field. That degree requirement satisfies the specialty occupation standard under the H-1B1 Singapore visa, provided your employer documents the educational requirement in the Labor Condition Application.
How does the H-1B1 Singapore visa differ from H-1B for a Principal role?
H-1B1 Singapore has no lottery, no USCIS petition, and a dedicated annual cap of 5,400 visas that has never been exhausted. Your application goes directly to the U.S. Embassy in Singapore after your employer files a certified LCA with DOL. H-1B requires a lottery, USCIS adjudication, and carries a multi-month processing timeline that H-1B1 Singapore avoids entirely.
Which types of U.S. employers typically sponsor H-1B1 Singapore visas for Principals?
Private K-12 schools, international schools, charter school networks, and some independent school districts sponsor Principals on H-1B1 Singapore visas. Public districts in certain states face procurement or board approval constraints that slow the process. International schools with existing global hiring pipelines are often most familiar with the consular-based H-1B1 process.
How can I find Principal jobs with H-1B1 Singapore sponsorship?
Migrate Mate filters Principal openings by employers with verified H-1B1 Singapore and H-1B sponsorship history, so you can focus applications on schools and districts that have actually gone through the LCA and consular process before. That filing history is a strong signal that the employer understands the requirements and won't withdraw the offer once they learn what sponsorship involves.
Can I switch from H-1B1 Singapore to H-1B later if I want a path to a green card?
Yes. H-1B1 Singapore does not support dual intent, meaning you can't pursue a green card while holding it. If your employer wants to sponsor you for permanent residence, you'd need to transition to H-1B status first. Your employer would register you in the next H-1B lottery, and you'd continue in H-1B1 status until selected and approved.