ETL Software Engineering Lead

We have an exciting opportunity for a talented team lead software engineer to join one of our highly successful flagship businesses, working in an agile and rapidly expanding global environment. You will join a team engaged in delivering high performance data services to the petrochemical and energy industries. The successful candidate will need to hit the ground running, with a proven track record as a team lead in software engineering and data services. The position performs research, design, and development of data systems. There will be a high focus on loading data into a data lake, transforming the data, moving it into other zones within the data lake and making the data available for further analysis. You will actively participate with an existing group of Developers, Architects, DevOps Engineers and Analysts to design, develop, implement, and optimise complete end-to-end data handling solutions that transforms the organisation at the enterprise level. You will also ensure the continuous improvement of existing products and processes and build new products and applications. Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities: · Team leadership, coaching, mentoring and code reviews · Maintaining high standards of software qualiity · Building ETL (extract, transform and load) processes to load data into a data lake, and then provide further data transformations in the data lake. · Building and deploying applications to dev/test/prod environments. · Automating configuration management, infrastructure, and application deployments. · Work with Technical Support, Operations, Data Science and Product. · Work in a fast-paced dynamic environment. · Communicate with functional area managers, project sponsors, and/or consultants regarding status of specific projects. · Work closely with support groups to refine system monitoring and reporting. · Problem solving and analysing issues: including arranging and coordinating with resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex issues · Proper estimation, execution, documentation, and closure of tasks, changes, and requests. · Collaboration and teamwork: actively develop strong, supportive and collaborative working relationships. Experience/Skills Required: · Team leadership, mentoring · Data Extract/Transform/Load - ETL · Hands on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Programming / Scripting · Automated build and deployments · Strong interpersonal and stakeholder skills · Excellent problem solving skills · Source control - Git · SQL Highly Desirable skills: · AWS experience: · S3 · Step Functions · Lambda · Glue · Athena · Elastic Search · Kibana, · ELK · AWS Roles · KMS · Vault · Programming/Scripting languages: · Python · Scala · C# · Terraform HCL · Deployment · Kubernetes · Terraform · Docker/Containerisation technologies · Continuous integration/Continuous deployment · GitlabCI/TeamCity/Jenkins/etc · Data · Data lakes · Data Science experience · Database design (SQL and NoSQL) · DynamoDB · JSON, XML, Parquet · Other · Jira/Confluence/Stash · Tableau · SCRUM · Rest API · GraphQL · Line management Who we are: ICIS is part of Reed Business Information (RBI); we use leading edge technology to deliver market leading information and online data services to business professionals worldwide. Customers have access to our high-value industry data, analytics, information and tools. Our strong global brands hold market-leading positions across a wide range of industry sectors including banking, petrochemicals and aviation where we help customers make key strategic decisions every day. RBI people are driven by an environment focussed on innovation, passion for our products, and collaboration - where working in an agile manner is par for the course. RBI is part of RELX, a FTSE100 global provider of data, information and solutions for professional customers; RELX has recently been ranked by Forbes as 53 in their Top-2000 Global Employers. What’s it like to work here? Outstanding - you’ve probably already got a feel for what we do and the technology we’re involved with but what differentiates us from the crowd is our culture. We’re an agile, dynamic and forward thinking organisation who understand the importance of looking after our staff. We pride ourselves on delivering high-quality products, providing our employees with interesting challenges for their personal and career development whilst also striking the right balance between work and family life. We’re able to offer the best-of-both-words, a close-knit, collegial, flexible and dynamic team with the stability, investment, benefits and career opportunities that go with being part of a growing global organisation. And what about your career? Career development is important to us and we take our personal development plan (PDP) process very seriously; we want you to learn and progress quickly in the direction you want to go and we will provide you with the training and support to achieve that at the right pace. Career wise our company is made up of many leading online businesses so you can develop in three dimensions, vertically through the business, across different brands, and across different functions (if you fancy a change). We’re an increasingly international business and are often able to offer overseas opportunities either as secondments or on a permanent basis. Women In Technology: RBI is very supportive of women in Technology and has been a founding signature for the Tech Talent Charter. Currently 24% of our Technology workforce are women, this is much higher than the UK average of 17%. We have the following initiatives in place to support women in technology: Mentoring scheme for women in technology. Women’s network forum. Regularly run events for school girls, related to careers in technology, inspiring the next generation of girls in tech. Click on the link to find out more: http://www.techtalentcharter.co.uk/ RBI is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 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