REPL Group - Data Engineer at Accenture

Job Description
We’re looking for a Data Engineer to work side-by-side with our data science team to help implement in-house developed algorithms and provide software engineering expertise and support as required to the wider organisation.

Your new role:

• Provide technical input to system and software architecture design activities.
• Work closely with the data science team to develop a robust interface framework for the algorithms.
• Produce technical documentation covering software requirements, design specifications and test specifications.
• Develop high quality maintainable software features in accordance with the software process.
• Develop and implement sustainable developer test strategies to verify and validate software features.
• Investigate and fix issues in new and existing software/features.
• Produce prototype software features to demonstrate concepts and ideas.
• Support software platform deployments.
• Produce/update software process documentation.
• Investigate and deploy new software development tools to support software development.

Qualifications
What we’re looking for:

• Strong academic background i.e. bachelor’s level in degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar.
• System level thinker who can quickly understand and solve complex technical problems.
• Demonstrable commercial big data engineering experience.
• Experience of applying object-oriented design principles.
• Strong Scala and Python experience.
• Strong experience with Spark.
• Strong experience with Cassandra.
• Keen to utilise up-to-date software development practices.
• Good communications skills, verbal and written.
• Self-starter, happy to work alone or as part of a team.
• It would be great if you had/ a desire to learn about:
• Experience with R scripting language.
• Experience of working in an Agile development environment.
• Experience of test driven development.
• Experience of developing and applying automated tests.
• Experience of utilising a continuous integration approach to software development.
• Experience of software containers e.g. Docker.
• Experience of working with mobile application developers and integrating mobile applications with web services.
• Experience of applying UML to describe software designs.
• Experience of integrating software and hardware.
• Comfortable working with different software processes.