In the middle of the energy transition, businesses and governments are faced with significant challenges. But the pace and scale of change mean every decision is made under mounting pressure. Now, more than ever, companies need reliable data, analytics and actionable insight.
Wood Mackenzie is the leading global provider of data and analytics solutions for the renewables, energy and natural resources sectors.
Wood Mackenzie’s services include data, analytics, insight, events and consultancy. A trusted partner for over 50 years, Wood Mackenzie’s team has over 2,300 experts across more than 30 global locations who cover the entire supply chain.
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
Wood Mackenzie is an industry-leading data analytics company that provides analysis and insight on the world’s natural resources with a presence all around the globe. We’re working on a next generation data analysis & visualisation platform that enables our customers to drive billion-dollar decisions and accelerate the world's transition to a more sustainable tomorrow. We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our team.
This role will be working within our AI group and focus on the research, development and delivery of Generative AI solutions within our products. You'll collaborate closely with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, data engineers and product managers that deliver our product roadmap. You'll help design the architecture of those solutions and ensure their technical success by making sure they are scaleable, robust and maintainable.
The successful candidate for this role must have a strong Software Engineering background and understand the challenges of delivering products with a commitment to incremental delivery. Proven experience of leading complex software engineering projects, and the ability to articulate ideas effectively across multiple business areas is essential.
As one of our Principal Software Engineers you will:
- 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
You're a great fit for this role if:
- You've got experience leading teams in the development of complex web services and deploying them to AWS
- You have proven leadership abilities and want to be part of a high performing team
- You've used to agile ways of working, test driven development and paired programming
- You understand that people build software and know the importance of communication and collaboration
Our tech stack
We use a wide variety of tools and technologies across our products, for this role we're looking for:
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages; in particular strong skills in Python and tooling within the Python ecosystem.
- Strong experience in using cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure for deploying scalable solutions
- Skilled in software architecture patterns, microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native design principles
- Experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using tools like Jenkins or similar
- Knowledge of data engineering principles and techniques.
- Knowledge of data science techniques would be a plus
Here’s an idea of other technologies you might 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, and Redux
- We have a shared component library implementing our design system
- We implement GraphQL and RESTful APIs using NodeJS and Python
- Our backend services are implemented in C# and .NET
- DynamoDB, Redshift, Postgres, Elasticsearch, and S3 are our go to data stores
- We run out ETL data pipelines using Python
Equal Opportunities
We are an equal opportunities employer. This means we are committed to recruiting the best people regardless of their race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. You can find out more about your rights under the law at www.eeoc.gov
If you are applying for a role and have a physical or mental disability, we will support you with your application or through the hiring process.
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What We Do
In the middle of the energy transition, businesses and governments are faced with significant challenges. But the pace and scale of change mean every decision is made under mounting pressure. Now, more than ever, companies need reliable data, analytics and actionable insight.
Wood Mackenzie is the leading global provider of data and analytics solutions for the renewables, energy and natural resources sectors . Wood Mackenzie’s services include data, analytics, insight, events and consultancy. A trusted partner for over 50 years, Wood Mackenzie’s team has over 2,300 experts across more than 30 global locations who cover the entire supply chain. Wood Mackenzie’s data and analytics empowers energy producers, governments and financial institutions to be confident in their investment decisions in the face of rapidly evolving markets. Part of the Veritas group.
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