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, specifically through Postgres functions and objects. 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 to support business functions
• Provide operational support for enterprise databases to ensure high availability of applications and data quality
• Identify and transform industry data using Postgres database functions for the purpose of ingestion into Wood Mackenzie systems
• Support internal and external customer 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 databases (Postgres, Oracle, SQL, etc)
• Demonstrated experience creating, maintaining, and tuning highly-efficient database functions and objects.
• Demonstrated ability to understand system-specific data and processes, and utilize them to drive the value of a product
• 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

Additional Information

“Wood Mackenzie is a place where we are committed to supporting our people to grow and thrive. We value different perspectives and aspire to create an inclusive environment which encourages diversity and fosters a sense of belonging. 

Wood Mackenzie values everyone’s contribution and helps them reach their full potential while sustaining an organisational culture of health and well-being.

Our core values are:

• 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

We understand the importance of bringing your whole self to work and to achieving balance between work, family and other life commitments.  We are open to considering flexible working arrangements to enable the greatest spectrum of talent to contribute to Wood Mackenzie's success.

Hear what our team has to say about working with us: https://www.woodmac.com/careers/our-