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Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding. The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation. Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors. Certified as a
Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms. Our Energy Products Practice is looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to join the team.
Baringa are world leaders in modelling energy markets and using the insights generated through these models to drive change in a decarbonising energy industry. The Energy Products practice
specialises
in
the development and innovation
of our analytical models and supporting technology ecosystem
underpinned by our deep
expertise
in the energy markets.
Our staff come from diverse backgrounds, based across multiple geographies, and building models that utilise highly varied data sources – everything from kilobytes of academic papers to terabytes of hourly scenario
projections
for 50+ years. They need rapid access to data, analytics outputs, and highly
scalable data processing infrastructure. Our scale and model complexity has reached a point that to continue to achieve our business vision, we are building a dedicated global Data and Processing Platform team.
Come and join us to be part of the energy transition, the defining challenge of our lifetimes, where your technical skills and experience can have real impact.
We are looking for a Senior Platform Software Engineer
to join as a core member of the Data and Processing Platform team, taking on a key role alongside the Engineering Lead to build the foundations
and shared capabilities that support
Baringa’s
continued growth and evolution.
You will
help shape
the design, implementation and ongoing support of a greenfield Data and Processing Platform
and its supporting software products
You will support the Engineering Lead to engage with internal developers, energy system modellers, client-facing energy experts, and users across the business to build
capabilities that
enable them to work more effectively and better serve our clients.
You will
help drive
engineering best practices, ensuring that quality,
reliability
and
observability
are
built into our products from
inception.
You will design and
implement
robust CI/CD automation
flows, continually
evolving
our processes to improve the engineering experience for ourselves and the teams we support.
You will take an active
role
in
all stages of
the team’s agile
development approach,
from refinement through to delivery,
supporting the iterative improvement of our
team
processes.
Your skills and experience
You are passionate about building the ‘right’ solution to problems,
with a desire to understand the problems at their core and ‘why’
a solution is fit for purpose.
You will have practical experience as a senior engineer in
high-performing
engineering teams, collaborating closely with colleagues and taking pride in what you create.
You are
strong at solving complex problems
and
can
flexibly consider different technologies/engineering approaches
to
achieve
this.
You have advanced working knowledge of a general programming language (e.g. Python,
Java, C#,
Typescript etc.) and understand both domain modelling and application programming.
You have working knowledge of data management technologies (SQL, NoSQL, Databricks etc.)
You have working knowledge of modern
software
engineering tools (Git, CI/CD pipelines), cloud technologies (e.g.
AWS,
Azure) and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform,
Pulumi)
You have worked across the technology stack with experience of established frameworks (e.g. React/Angular/Vue/Blazor frontends and/or
FastAPI/Spring
Boot/.NET
backends)
You have experience building and supporting different architectural
approaches and
are confident in justifying
your technology and architectural choices.
You are passionate about communicating complex concepts succinctly to both technical and non-technical audiences to reach
a common understanding.
You have experience working with agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum/Kanban), with
an understanding of the key principles that underpin
their
effective use.
We’ve seen research that says some candidates will not apply to a role if they don’t meet every requirement, but pleas
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