Senior Database Engineer

Company Description

Wood Mackenzie are the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision making.

Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector teams are located around the world and deliver a variety of projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies, and economic indicators such as market supply, demand, and price trends.

We have over 2,500 employees in 30 locations, serving customers in nearly 80 countries. Together, we inspire and innovate the markets we serve – providing invaluable intelligence to help our customers overcome the toughest challenges, and make strategic decisions that will, ultimately, accelerate the world’s transition to a more sustainable future.

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Job Description

Wood Mackenzie is looking for a senior engineer specializing in database development to join our power & renewables engineering division. In this role you will be accountable for the continued development and support of products and data assets that drive our short-term power applications. These products focus on data presentation and power flow forecasting for the power transmission regions across the country and deal with a broad set of technologies, datasets and cross industry requirements. You will help drive the growth of these products through gained industry knowledge and client needs while adhering to development best practice and company software delivery frameworks.

Main Responsibilities

• Create, maintain, and improve database data structures and functions in a multi-terabyte RDBM environment.
• Provide operational support for enterprise databases to ensure high availability of applications and data quality.
• Identify and transform US nodal transmission market data and processes for the purpose of ingestion into Wood Mackenzie systems.
• Support internal and external customers on the use, processes, and data within short-term power databases and applications.
• Contribute to roadmap planning by working with stakeholders, identifying enhancement opportunities and technical support needs, and providing estimates for these initiatives.
• Collaborate with peers to provide specialized database engineering and industry insight and guidance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with database development and data architecture.
• Demonstrated experience consuming, transforming, and managing large complex data sets through developing commercial applications with traditional relational (Postgres, Oracle, SQL, etc.) databases.
• Experience with cloud architecture and infrastructure, such as AWS, would be an asset.
• Demonstrated ability to understand industry-specific data and processes, and utilize them to drive the value of a product.
• Shown ability to contribute to the design of highly functional user interfaces and identify usability issues.
• Hands-on expertise with agile methodologies and comprehensive understanding of modern patterns and practices.
• Experience with peer coaching and mentoring.
• Self-driven to manage your own time, balance priorities, and work well both independently and as part of a team.
• Strong technical and non-technical communication skills to effectively interact with various audiences.
• Lead implementation and delivery ensuring coding, unit testing, system integration, defect resolution, and technical documentation adheres to our standards.
• Proactively identify problems with requirements and communicates these issues early to help course-correct.
• Effectively perform troubleshooting and support efforts for existing systems and applications, with a focus on improvement.
• Work in collaboration with team members to perform scoping, estimation and technology feasibility tasks for the intended solution.
• Address technical queries and elicit, prioritize, and negotiate changes to requirements and defects.
• Produce own and review for others the technical quality of deliverables ensuring it aligns with best practices.
• Consistently demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills, initiative and drive.

Expectations

• Behaviours and capabilities expected from the role holder:
  • Communicate with clarity, authenticity, and purpose.
  • Forge impactful relationships beyond our immediate team.
  • Delivering on our commitments and owning the outcome.
  • Align efforts to organisational goals and priorities.
  • Continuous personal development to add value.
  • Maintain high performance through disruption and change.
• As you gain industry, market, and system knowledge, you will be expected to show a high level of ownership over short-term power system by acting as a product expert within the company.
• We are a hybrid working company and the successful applicant will be expected to be physically present in the office at least 2 days per week to foster and contribute to a collaborative environment, but this may be subject to change in the future.

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.

Additional Information

Wood Mackenzie is an equal opportunities employer.

We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran’s status, age or disability.

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