Senior Engineer

Wood Mackenzie is the global data and analytics business for the renewables energy and natural resources industries. Enhanced by technology. Enriched by human an ever-changing world companies and governments need reliable and actionable insight to lead the transition to a sustainable future. Thats why we cover the entire supply chain with unparalleled breadth and depth backed by over 50 years experience. Our team of over 2400 experts operating across 30 global locations are enabling customers decisions through real-time analytics consultancy events and thought leadership. Together we deliver the insight they need to separate risk from opportunity and make confident decisions when it matters most.

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• Inclusive we succeed together
• Trusting we choose to trust each other
• Customer committed we put customers at the heart of our decisions
• Future Focused we accelerate change
• Curious we turn knowledge into action

Wood Mackenzie is an industry-leading data analytics company that provides analysis and insight on the worlds natural resources with a presence all around the globe. Were working on a next generation data analysis & visualisation platform that enables our customers to drive billion-dollar decisions and accelerate the worlds transition to a more sustainable tomorrow.

Who were looking for:

Were looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Snowflake Platform team within our Data Platform group. Youll be responsible for developing and maintaining the systems and infrastructure that integrate Snowflake into our broader data ecosystem ensuring our platform is maintainable and continues to technically evolve to meet our customers needs.

As well as working on our internal Snowflake platform youll collaborate with the third parties we partner with to ensure the technical success of those projects and ensure they are aligned to our requirements.

Ideally youll:

• Be able to work across multiple teams to solve complex technical problems particularly around Snowflake integration and platform adoption

• Have strong experience with Snowflake including its architecture capabilities and how it integrates within a wider data platform ecosystem

• Have solid experience building web-based applications supporting micro-services and deploying them in a cloud environment with focus on data platform infrastructure

• Support other teams migration to Snowflake providing technical guidance and platform solutions rather than direct data engineering

• Have technical experience of complex platform projects and be able to contribute as a technical expert on Snowflake implementations

• Have strong communication and collaboration skills with an ability to contribute to engineering initiatives across teams adopting the Snowflake platform

• Be able to work with our technical leadership teams to contribute to the technical evolution of our Snowflake platform and its integration with our broader applications

• Have solid understanding of modern software engineering from test automation to architectural principles applied to data platform development

• Understand what it takes to develop resilient scalable and secure data platform solutions

• Recognise that people build software and working with others is key to success especially when enabling other teams to adopt new platform capabilities

• Our tech stack - We use a wide variety of tools and technologies across our products and no-one is expected to have deep experience of all of them.

Heres an idea of what you might typically encounter:

• Our services are deployed to AWS typically using Lambda ECS and Kubernetes with CloudFormation and CDK for infrastructure configuration

• Our web products are developed using TypeScript and React

• We implement GraphQL and RESTful APIs using NodeJS and NestJS

• Our backend services are implemented in C# and Python

• Redshift DynamoDB Postgres Elasticsearch and S3 are our go to data stores

• Snowflake is a key component of our data platform

What we can offer you:

• We want you to do the best work of your career while youre with Wood Mackenzie. As well as a comprehensive benefits package we offer:

• Ownership of your work and trust to see it through

• Mastery: 2 days per month allocated for innovation and personal development

• Online and in-office training and certification opportunities

• Excellent work-life balance: we respect that people have lives outside work

• Stress-free financial package inclusive of a competitive salary above-competition pension contribution structured bonus scheme shares scheme and life assurance cover.

• Wellbeing is a priority for us: we offer remote working private medical insurance as well as mental wellness days throughout the year.

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