Senior Development and Data Engineer

Job Description

Core Consultants are a fresh, innovative data consultancy that is applying a different approach to how consulting is sourced and delivered.Founded by former Partners and Directors from KPMG and IBM joined by consultants, engineers and SMEs from some of the worlds leading management consultancies, and companies that were brought together by a shared sense that big is no longer best.Our offering is simple, we are committed to delivering the most value to our clients.We are currently seeking several experienced software engineers for our associate engineering team who will join our delivery team working within one of the UKs leading Data Engineering Innovation Labs.The TeamThe team is internally focused and has one goal, pair the users knowledge and experience with intuitive applications and platforms that empower them to innovate with the companys 25 million data points.In a few short years, their applications have become the must-haves for the worlds leading companies and the whos who of technology firms like Google, Netflix, Amazon, Uber, Facebook, Tik Tok. The team has been responsible for adding nearly half a billionin additional revenue and they have only just begun.They are now seeking additional experts to help build the next generation of key business-critical applications.As they make the transition to a cloud-enabled, microservices-engineered, open-sourced powered stack they are looking for individual contributors, who are at home solving highly complex, impossible problems, challenged by the idea of not knowing all theanswers.Person profile

• We are genuinely looking for the 1%ers, engineers and developers who are seeking a genuine test of their abilities, drawn to a team of peers limited only by their own imagination, collectively working together to break new ground.
• Youre a good fit for this role if you love tackling complex distributed systems challenges, thrive in a collaborative, community-driven environment and have a strong passion for open-source software.
• Given the nature of the task, you will need to have deep experience in one or more of the following.
• C# (.NET Core), Python, Typescript/JavaScript, Node.js
• We need self-starters, that can draw upon previous experience in solving complex engineering problems created by the act of re-engineering, and re-platforming applications and platforms using very large cloud-hosted data sets.
• Working in a product-led development and engineering environment you will be tasked with operating as a technical SME, your responsibilities will include.
• Code delivery in cloud implementation; cloud services; test-driven development; code review;
• SOLID/design-based approaches; cloud engineering; CI/CD Back End approaches; web development; performant code; delivery ownership; some task and feature definition; containerisation and container orchestration approaches
• Code: Provision of C# (.NET Core), Typescript/JavaScript, Node.js, PLSQL, SQ
• Cloud: AWS/AZURE expertise; DevOps, Terraform
• Source Control: Git, TFS, MS Build, Build Scripts

Skills

• Proven experience as a Data/Software Engineer - c. 5 years
• Proven experience managing data stores (eg Azure DataLake, SQL Server), with specific experience in performance tuning
• Experience working with event-based architectures
• Experience working with Spark and Kafka - min 1 years. Airflow experience highly desirable.
• Solid software engineering background with Python with a focus on Object Oriented programming practices (or at least one OOP focused additional language)
• Experience with K8s desirable
• Experience with CI/CD tools, automated testing/TDD
• Good communication skills; ability to communicate ideas and engineering concepts clearly
• Strong problem solving skills

Up to £650 per day outside IR35