Consulting/Principal Software Engineer at Relx

Responsibilities

• Acting as an acknowledged 'go to' person on coding and technical issues, for both internal and external contacts
• Interfacing with other personnel or team members to identify solutions to customer problems
• Develop innovative strategies and processes for ingesting, transforming, and managing data in bulk
• Modify, test and deploy custom B2C policies
• Writing queries, functions, and ETL jobs
• Schedule and coordinate database jobs, monitor progress and completion of all jobs, and take corrective action as needed
• Manage and monitor various data feeds through the system and handle issues as they arise
• Consult on feature design, implementation, and relevant metrics like reliability, completeness, accuracy, and cost
• Perform capacity monitoring, as well as short and long-term capacity planning

Requirements

• Have a BS degree in Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Be able to demonstrate excellent organizational skills when dealing with multiple priorities, able to delegate effectively.
• Have experience with Azure and AWS products.
• Have familiarity with RDS, Redis, Lambda, S3, EC2s
• Have experience with programming languages such as Java and Python
• Expertise with various database systems, the development of micro-services, optimization, and industry best practices
• Have experience in partnering with and leading internal and external technology resources to solve business needs.
• Have substantial experience with query languages.
• Have the ability to guide engineers and other team members on features and best practices.
• Have documentation skills for processes and procedures.
• Have excellent communication skills and the ability to convey information clearly to a wide audience.