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.

Job Description

We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our Solutions Platform group. You'll work with the teams responsible for the systems that power data throughout our products, and the infrastructure that supports them. You’ll ensure that those services are maintainable and continue to technically evolve to meet our customers' needs.

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

Main Responsibilities

• Design and develop software applications supporting business objectives
• Maintain, enhance, and support existing applications 
• Analyze and debug applications in development and production environments and resolve production issues within the accepted timeframes 
• Lead design and architecture meetings 
• Serve as a liaison to internal customers, research groups, and various business support areas 
• Participate in code reviews 
• Write technical documentation and release notes for the applications 
• Provide technical guidance to junior programmers and other software engineers 

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.

Here’s 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, React, Redux, and Apollo
• We have a shared component library implementing our design system
• We implement GraphQL and RESTful APIs using NodeJS and NestJS
• Our backend services are implemented in C#, Typescript or .NET
• We run our ETL data pipelines using Python
• Redshift, DynamoDB, Postgres, Elasticsearch, and S3 are our go to data stores

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Qualifications

Ideally, you’ll:

• Be a technical leader who can work across multiple teams to solve complex technical problems
• Have expert-level experience building web-based applications, supporting micro-services and deploying them in a cloud environment
• Have technical experience of complex projects and be able to act as a technical authority
• Have effective communication and collaboration skills, and an ability to scale engineering initiatives
• Be able to work with our technical leadership teams to inform the technical evolution of our applications and the platform it resides on
• Have expert level understanding of modern software engineering, from test automation to architectural principles
• Understand what it takes to develop resilient, scalable and secure software
• Recognise that people build software and working with others is key to success

Additional Information

• We are a hybrid working company and the successful applicant will be expected to be physically present in the office at least 2 days per week to foster and contribute to a collaborative environment, but this may be subject to change in the future
• Due to the global nature of the team, a degree of flexible working will be required to accommodate different time zones

Wood Mackenzie Values

• 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