Manager, Senior Platform Software Engineer

About Baringa

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise and enabled by advanced technology the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2000 people across the UK Europe North America Asia and Australia the firm combines global insight with local understanding.

The firm works across energy and resources financial services government and public sector consumer products and retail pharmaceuticals and life sciences manufacturing and technology media and telecoms with capabilities spanning strategy transformation and operational excellence all powered by advanced technology data AI and digital innovation.

Clients value Baringas collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets modernise financial platforms expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics enable digital services in government and unlock growth in consumer sectors.

Certified as aGreat Place to Work around the world Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the Worlds Best Management Consulting Firms.

Our Energy Products Practice is looking for an experienced (job title/level) to join the team.

Baringa are world leaders in modelling energy markets and using the insights generated through these models to drive change in a decarbonising energy industry. The Energy Products practicespecialisesinthe development and innovationof our analytical models and supporting technology ecosystemunderpinned by our deepexpertisein the energy markets.

Our staff come from diverse backgrounds based across multiple geographies and building models that utilise highly varied data sources everything from kilobytes of academic papers to terabytes of hourly scenarioprojectionsfor 50 years. They need rapid access to data analytics outputs and highlyscalable data processing infrastructure. Our scale and model complexity has reached a point that to continue to achieve our business vision we are building a dedicated global Data and Processing Platform team.

Come and join us to be part of the energy transition the defining challenge of our lifetimes where your technical skills and experience can have real impact.

What you will be doing

We are looking for a Senior Platform Software Engineerto join as a core member of the Data and Processing Platform team taking on a key role alongside the Engineering Lead to build the foundationsand shared capabilities that supportBaringascontinued growth and evolution.

• You willhelp shapethe design implementation and ongoing support of a greenfield Data and Processing Platformand its supporting software products

• You will support the Engineering Lead to engage with internal developers energy system modellers client-facing energy experts and users across the business to buildcapabilities thatenable them to work more effectively and better serve our clients.

• You willhelp driveengineering best practices ensuring that qualityreliabilityandobservabilityarebuilt into our products frominception.

• You will design andimplementrobust CI/CD automationflows continuallyevolvingour processes to improve the engineering experience for ourselves and the teams we support.

• You will take an activeroleinall stages ofthe teams agiledevelopment approachfrom refinement through to deliverysupporting the iterative improvement of ourteamprocesses.

Your skills and experience

• You are passionate about building the right solution to problemswith a desire to understand the problems at their core and whya solution is fit for purpose.

• You will have practical experience as a senior engineer inhigh-performingengineering teams collaborating closely with colleagues and taking pride in what you create.

• You arestrong at solving complex problemsandcanflexibly consider different technologies/engineering approachestoachievethis.

• You have advanced working knowledge of a general programming language (e.g. PythonJava C#Typescript etc.) and understand both domain modelling and application programming.

• You have working knowledge of data management technologies (SQL NoSQL Databricks etc.)

• You have working knowledge of modernsoftwareengineering tools (Git CI/CD pipelines) cloud technologies () and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. TerraformPulumi)

• You have worked across the technology stack with experience of established frameworks (e.g. React/Angular/Vue/Blazor frontends and/orFastAPI/SpringBoot/.NETbackends)

• You have experience building and supporting different architecturalapproaches andare confident in justifyingyour technology and architectural choices.

• You are passionate about communicating complex concepts succinctly to both technical and non-technical audiences to reacha common understanding.

• You have experience working with agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum/Kanban) withan understanding of the key principles that underpintheireffective use.

Weve seen research that says some candidates will not apply to a role if they dont meet every requirement but please do not let this put you off. If you think you are a good overall match please do get in touch we look carefully at all applications and you may well be our ideal candidate.

What a career at Baringa will give you

PuttingPeopleFirst.

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy:We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave fully available at the start of each addition to this we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.

• Flexible Working:We know that the ideal work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.

• Corporate Responsibility Days:Our world is important to us so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.

• Wellbeing Fund:We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. Weve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.

• Profit Share Scheme:All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the companys success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity innovation and value for our clients and for our people.

An award-winning workplace

You can be a part of our Great Place to Work with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all.Click hereto see some of our recent awards and how weve achieved this.

Using business as a force for good.

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work and offer a variety of ways to contribute by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills talent and essence we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.

Join us

All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race ethnicity religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation nationality disability age faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.

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