Senior Software Engineer - (Hybrid)

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Company Description

Wood Mackenzie are the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision making.

Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector teams are located around the world and deliver a variety of projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies, and economic indicators such as market supply, demand, and price trends.

We have over 1,900 employees in 30 locations, serving customers in nearly 80 countries. Together, we inspire and innovate the markets we serve - providing invaluable intelligence to help our customers overcome the toughest challenges, and make strategic decisions that will, ultimately, accelerate the world's transition to a more sustainable future.

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Job Description

We are growing and so we are looking for Senior and Lead Software Engineers.

Your role will sit within an Agile team developing products deal with a variety of applications and broad set of technologies, datasets and cross industry requirements. You will help drive the development and integration of these products. We will need you to ensure adherence to best practice in building modern software architectures with well-designed APIs.

Qualifications

• full stack software engineer.
• Strong background in a combination of the following: C#, Python, Typescript, Angular, and/or React
• Nice to have - background in Perl
• Solid knowledge of modern enterprise and cloud architectures (e.g. microservices, serverless, event driven, reactive) and containerization methodologies.
• Expert level knowledge of multiple technology stacks, object-oriented design approaches and enterprise design patterns
• Strong data engineering foundation gained in developing commercial applications with traditional (SQL, Postgres, etc) and NOSQL databases (Elasticsearch, Neo4j, MongoDB, etc) and streaming data (Kafka)
• Hands on experience with application optimization, scaling, and security. Particularly caching strategies, and large-scale distributed computing
• Commercial product or analysis experience with commodities market datasets, data feeds and industry conventions is a plus.

Leadership

• Lead a culture of product development where solving problems for our customers is the highest priority.
• Act as, and be seen as a technical authority within engineering teams
• Identify emerging technologies or applications and the opportunities to integrate them into our operations and activities
• Communicate effectively across functions as required

Delivery

• Lead implementation and delivery ensuring coding, unit testing, system integration, defect resolution, and technical documentation adheres to our standards
• Proactively identify problems with requirements and communicates these issues early to help course-correct
• Assist in troubleshooting and support efforts for existing systems and applications, focused on improving our existing systems and applications
• Promote shared ownership of code though code reviews, standards, and documentation
• Participate in the definition and implementation of the engineering team roadmap.

Collaboration

• Work in collaboration with team members to perform scoping, estimation, and technology feasibility tasks for the intended solution
• Manage dependencies among engineering activities and constantly monitor, assess, and control the technical execution
• Address technical queries and elicit, prioritize, and negotiate changes to requirements and defects
• Contribute to system and data issue identification and resolution within teams across the organization

Quality

• Anticipating technical problems that will fall out of major products and designing solutions to overcome those problems
• Promote a culture of code quality and continuous improvement
• Drive the importance of data accuracy from internal and external sources

Additional Information

"WoodMackenzie is an equal opportunities employer.

We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability.

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