Principal Software 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

About The Role
We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our Snowflake Platform team within our Data Platform group. You'll be responsible for the systems and infrastructure that integrate Snowflake into our broader data ecosystem, ensuring our platform is maintainable and continues to technically evolve to meet our customers' needs.

As well as working on our internal Snowflake 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Be a technical leader who can work across multiple teams to solve complex technical problems, particularly around Snowflake integration and platform adoption
• Have expert-level experience with Snowflake, including its architecture, capabilities, and how it integrates within a wider data platform ecosystem
• Have strong experience building web-based applications, supporting micro-services and deploying them in a cloud environment, with specific focus on data platform infrastructure
• Lead and support other teams' migration to Snowflake, providing technical guidance and platform solutions rather than direct data engineering
• Have technical experience of complex platform projects and be able to act as a technical authority on Snowflake implementations
• Have effective communication and collaboration skills, with an ability to scale engineering initiatives across teams adopting the Snowflake platform
• Be able to work with our technical leadership teams to inform the technical evolution of our Snowflake platform and its integration with our broader applications
• Have expert level understanding of modern software engineering, from test automation to architectural principles, applied to data platform development
• Understand what it takes to develop resilient, scalable and secure data platform solutions
• Recognise that people build software and working with others is key to success, especially when enabling other teams to adopt new platform capabilities

Our tech stack
We Use a Wide Variety Of Tools And Technologies Across Our Products. 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

Equal Opportunities
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