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Wood Mackenzie are an industry-leading data analytics company that provides analysis and insight on the world’s natural resources with offices all around the globe. The team are working on a next generation, data analysis & visualization platform utilized by our customer to drive billion-dollar decisions.
Your role will be within our Product Division where you will help with the design, development and maintenance of our new market intelligence modeling platform which combines proprietary and publicly available market data with analyst insight to provide energy forecasts to our customers.
In this role, you will work with product management and subject matter experts to define the features and functionality this platform and the ancillary models used to support the platform.
This role would suit someone who aspires to progress into a People management role.
As a Senior Engineer you will bring your experience developing commercial applications in a fast-paced, agile environment. Application development experience should include working on distributed architectures, highly configurable software designs, and applications that emphasize ease of use.
Your input will include identifying potential system enhancements and process improvements, participating in the specification, testing and implementation of the products, and offering suggestions for tools and approaches that will yield world-class products.
Skillset:
4 year Bachelor’s degree or international equivalent.
Minimum of 3 years development experience in a commercial software environment
Extensive experience within any of the following;
o Python
o NodeJS
o C#
o Typescript
An understanding of solid object-oriented design principles, relational databases, and distributed software design.
Strong expertise with SQL syntax, especially in environments that use various database engines – including SQL Server, PostgreSQL and Neo4
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Demonstrate a strong initiative to achieve in a highly competitive environment
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Proven experience with the design and implementation of creative software solutions
Solid knowledge of modern enterprise and cloud architectures (e.g. microservices, serverless, event driven, reactive) and containerization methodologies
Comfortable with managing technical debt and working with legacy codebases
Hands on experience with application optimisation, scaling and security. Particularly caching strategies, and large-scale distributed computing
Proven knowledge of continuous delivery and approaches to continuous integration
Foster 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 your team
Identify emerging technologies or applications and the opportunities to integrate them into operations and activities
Ensure the team of engineers you lead are supported and challenged to do valuable work
Build trust and confidence, and develop cross-departmental relationships
Encourage a collective code ownership and learning culture
Actively participate in the recruitment process.
Communicate effectively across functions as required
You will have the opportunity to influence technical direction, architecture, design and implementation of this new product line.
Lead implementation and delivery ensuring coding, unit testing, system integration, defect resolution, and technical documentation adheres to our standards
Consistently demonstrate leadership and communication skills, initiative and drive
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
Manage your own time, and work well both independently and as part of a team
Promote shared ownership of code though code reviews, standards and documentation
Participate in the definition and implementation of the engineering team roadmap.
Measurable improvements to the team’s output and the adoption of best practices and standards.
Holding yourself to the highest of professional and ethical standards and expecting the same of co-workers.
Knowledge of current software development technologies, techniques, and processes. This includes familiarity with agile software development and a "ship early, ship often" mindset.
Previous experience with applications that use publish-subscribe messaging and interact with enterprise messaging systems, including TIBCO and Kafka.
Understanding of modeling techniques, especially neural networks.
Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.
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