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 Senior Software Engineer to join our team.
This role will be working within our AI group and focus on the research, development and delivery of Innovative 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 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 Senior Engineers you will:
- Work with our product team to understand the problems our customers face and design solutions to solve them
- Break complex problems down into small iterations and lead others on their implementation
- Write maintainable, testable, and optimised code – and help junior team members do the same
- Build CI / CD pipelines to ensure the robust and repeatable deployment of our services
- Collaborate with teams that want to use the data platform and identify feedback that will improve the platform
- Ensure the high-quality implementation and delivery of our roadmap
- Be supported to grow and develop your skills.
You're a great fit for this role if:
- You've got experience building web services and working with AWS
- You want to be part of a high performing team
- You've had some exposure 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:.
- Experience of service / application development using Python and experience of tooling within the Python ecosystem.
- Experience in using cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure for deploying scalable solutions
- Understanding of 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 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, 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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