Software Engineering Lead

This is critical Lead position who leads large multifunctional development

The position may also provide sizing or budget recommendations to management.

About the Business

At Cirium, our goal is to keep the world connected. We are the industry leader in aviation analytics; helping our customers understand the past, present, and predicting what will happen tomorrow. Our mission is to transform the aviation industry by enabling airlines, airports, travel companies, tech giants, aircraft manufacturers, financial institutions and many more accelerate their own digital transformation. You can learn more about Cirium at the link below. https://www.cirium.com

About the Role:

The Software Engineering Lead plays a critical role in providing leadership, management, direction, and vision to technology squads including software engineers, quality assurance testers and business analysts. 

The engineering lead is responsible for providing leadership and guidance to offshore contractors/consultants and interns needed to ensure delivery of successful product solutions. They work closely with development peers, product, and project leaders/leads, and direct the successful completion and delivery of respective software components and any other related deliverables as well as ensuring engineering excellence and operational maturity.

About the Team:

The engineering lead is additionally expected to report progress to senior management. Additional responsibilities include identifying and supporting talent, coaching & mentoring of team members and defining resource requirements and allocations.

Requirements:

• Fluent in Python

• Advanced experience in SQL and working with various database technologies

• Strong experience with Parquet, ORC, or other big data columnar storage format

• Experience building big data pipelines, architectures and data sets

• Experience with a majority of the AWS big data stack (S3, IAM, Glue ETL, Glue Catalog, Glue Crawlers, Athena )

• Demonstrated ability to build processes that support data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management

• Good interpersonal and written communication as well as problem-solving skills

• Happy to learn new technologies and keep abreast of new technology developments

• Experience working in a collaborative Agile environment (Scrum/Kanban)

• Experience and willingness to mentoring other engineers as needed to help the team succeed

• Participate in an on-call rotation

  Experience with some/all the following would be valuable to us:

• AirFlow

• CI/CD experience using tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity, Docker, Terraform (or other infrastructure-as-code toolsets)

• Microservices

• Datadog

• Designing / architecting software and software patterns

  Experience & Education 

• 9+ years of professional Data Engineering experience

• BS Computer Science, Information Science or equivalent experience required

• Lead position should have experience mentoring other team members in technology learning and help leading initiatives from a technical standpoint.  

  Work in a way that works for you

  We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. With an average length of service of 9 years, we are confident that we offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, family leave and tuition reimbursement, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and long-term goals. 

  Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work here (https://relx.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/RiskSolutions/page/21c296c982531000b79663f3194b0000)

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