Principal Engineer

Wood Mackenzie is the global data and analytics business for the renewables, energy, and natural resources industries. Enhanced by technology. Enriched by human intelligence. In an ever-changing world, companies and governments need reliable and actionable insight to lead the transition to a sustainable future. That’s why we cover the entire supply chain with unparalleled breadth and depth, backed by over 50 years’ experience. Our team of over 2,400 experts, operating across 30 global locations, are enabling customers’ decisions through real-time analytics, consultancy, events and thought leadership. Together, we deliver the insight they need to separate risk from opportunity and make confident decisions when it matters most.

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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

We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our Data 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.

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

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 and React
• We implement GraphQL and RESTful APIs using NodeJS and NestJS
• Our backend services are implemented in C# and Python
• Redshift, DynamoDB, Postgres, Elasticsearch, and S3 are our go to data stores
• Snowflake is a key component of our data platform

What We Can Offer You

We want you to do the best work of your career while you’re with Wood Mackenzie. As well as a comprehensive benefits package we offer:

• Ownership of your work and trust to see it through
• Mastery: 2 days per month allocated for innovation and personal development
• Online and in-office training and certification opportunities
• Excellent work-life balance: we respect that people have lives outside work
• Stress-free financial package inclusive of a competitive salary, above-competition pension contribution, structured bonus scheme, shares scheme and life assurance cover.
• Wellbeing is a priority for us: we offer remote working, private medical insurance as well as mental wellness days throughout the year

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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.