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The Role

Software Engineer A Software Engineer is someone who develops information systems by designing, developing, and installing software solutions. You determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions. If that’s what you do & you’re an expert in Python, C# or JavaScript, let us know and you could be our next to join our team What else do you need?

You have the following technical competencies

• Minimum of 5 years Experience with Software Development, Data Warehousing, Big Data or DevOps
• You have at least 5 years experience in one of the following languages : Python , C# or JavaScript
• Experience with Apache Airflow
• Experience with cloud technologies
• Some experience in the following stack : Kubernetes, Docker, Rkt, apache beam, PySpark, traefik, BigQuery, BigTable, Cloud Spanner or whatever else is the best tool for the job to get the job do

You have the following track record 

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or any related field
• Experience as a team leader
• Experience in taking responsibility for delivery and quality.
• Proven ability to lead
• Proven track record of delivering projects successfully
• Experience in breaking down high level Epics into manageable stories for teams
• Experience in architectural design of platform components
• You need to be able to provide input for architectural decisions, based on practical implications of the technologies and not only the theoretical benefits of said tech

  What other personal competencies would you need?

• The ability to solve problems.
• The ability to rotate around a problem, to see if solutions can be gained in different ways.
• The ability to work in an ever changing, unstructured environment.
• The ability to work as part of a team, with vastly differing skill sets and opinions.
• The ability to contribute ideas to the quorum.
• The ability to mentor and provide guidance for other team members.
• A systems approach to thinking, as opposed to a siloed approach. The candidate needs to understand how their work affects the greater system.
• The ability to work without supervision, and take accountability for the work they deliver.
• The ability to liaise with a client, sifting through the fluff and extracting the actual requirements.

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Frontend Developer

As a frontend developer you will work alongside other members of the front end team to build out the various user facing elements of our software. The role is focused on development over design, but you should have a good eye for design and be able to translate designs to code accurately.

You should have a good understanding of HTML, CSS/SASS and JavaScript and experience with Javascript frameworks such as React, Vue, Angular and/or equivalents.

The role will include working on a number of different projects, including web-apps, mobile apps, microsites and the company website and intranet.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for project scoping and wireframing
• Develop different views and components that make up a web application
• Developing features for a web application using javascript and javascript frameworks
• Engaging with users to implement better UX experience.
• Attend daily stand ups and work in an Agile environment.
• Assisting the backend developers with API design for front end consumption.
• Testing & QA

Required Skills/Experience:

• 2-5 years progressive development experience (working or self-taught)
• Demonstrable working web portfolio 
• Strong proficiency with HTML, JavaScript, CSS
• Strong proficiency with responsive web design 
• A logical approach to problem solving
• Attention to detail with a good sense of design
• Ability to work with a team of developers, communicating professionally and effectively
• Ability to work individually and meet assigned deadlines 
• Ability to consistently learn and apply new technologies
• Business awareness
• A methodical, investigative and inquisitive mind
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Initiative and self-confidence

Beneficial Skills/Experience:

• Experience working with Angular.js/Vue.js/React
• Experience with version control systems (Git)
• Experience working with Bootstrap
• Experience with web services integration (REST, AJAX)

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Senior UX/UCD Designer 

We are looking for enthusiastic Senior UX Designer to join their newly formed product department. 

As the Senior UX Designer you will be involved in scoping, designing and evolving a brand-new platform, that strikes a balance between the internal user needs and requirements, and objectives of the business. This role offers a unique opportunity to be part of a new product team, working to shape and influence a product from the early stages. 

The Senior UX Designer will have in-depth UCD (User-centred Design) experience working on complex products — preferably in the enterprise tooling/platform space. Any experience in designing tools with a workflow/service design angle too is advantageous. The designer will be a true team player; flexible, positive and a willingness to collaborate in varying sized groups — teaming with others from different disciplines. Their attitude and approach to tackling design challenges are probably the most important aspects of this role. 
The designer will have worked on projects from inception through to research, testing and delivery. We are seeking candidates who happily get their hands stuck into creating and iterating core UX design deliverables; whether it be user journeys, task flows, system/site mapping, concepts, wireframes or lean prototypes – depending on the challenge at hand.  
They will be advocates of a considered design process, yet flexible enough to adapt their approach to deliver artefacts in as lean a manner as possible, in order drive the product forward.  

They will be strong advocates of evidence-based design decision-making; through data, research, observation and insight. They will be used to working with C-suite and senior stakeholders, as well as engaging with users and our resident UX researcher — to drive the product forward. They will be used to testing and iterating their product concepts with users and have proven experience in conducting user research and analysis too. The Senior UX Designer should have the following experience: 

• Excellent UX skills across the UCD spectrum, working experience and advocates of evidence-based design decision-making through research and observation. 
• In-depth knowledge and evidence via portfolio/case studies of having worked with data, testing, research and analytics  
• 6+ years industry experience working within a digital process/function, either client or agency-side (or preferably a combination). 
• Proven product/platform design experience. 
• Experienced and able to work in each of the stages of product design from discovery and research to design, test and measuring the impact of said solution/idea. 
• Experience working with Agile, Lean UX methodologies and concept of MVP. 
• Experience or awareness of media (offline/digital media highly advantageous, but not essential). 
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and internal stakeholders. 
• Experience and understanding of design system thinking. 
• Basic understanding of Front End technologies: HTML, CSS, REACT, JavaScript would be an added bonus. 
• Worked with Product Managers, the business and technical teams to determine different approaches to support business solutions. 
• Strong experience in prototyping; including experience with tools like Axure & InVision. 
• Excellent core UX/IA-driven skills. This is not a Visual design role. 

We are keen to see portfolios which have detailed examples of concepts, research, prototyping, testing and measurement. 

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Technical Product Owner

We are looking for a strong Software / Technical Product Owner to work with our dream team environment in order to deliver best software solutions to our innovative and industry-leading product

We value a product owner as an IT professional responsible for setting, prioritizing, and evaluating the work generated by a software Scrum team in order to ensure impeccable features and functionality of one or more of our platform components within the Innovation,, Engineering and Architecture function.

You may be the Product Owner who leads other Product Owners by checking the quality of their requirements and ensuring that their views meet the broader product vision, or you might be the Product Owner who gathers and defines requirements with set definitions of ‘done’ and an acceptance criteria, and create tickets in Jira with the required information.
Well - either way - we’re looking for your skills and if you have experience as per the below - let us know by applying now!

Your responsibilities will include : 

• Key accountability for definition and delivery of robust and scalable platform components based around a discrete domain within our architecture
• Work hand in glove with ‘business-facing’ Product Owners to understand end to end user journeys that deliver business value and assist them in decomposing this into a set of new/enhanced capabilities that are required of a variety of platform components
• Work with Technology engineers, operations and architects to ensure the non-functional requirements and options for significant ‘under the cover’ technical investment are understood in order to drive long term flexibility, maintainability, extensibility and a smooth running operation of the component in production
• Ensure that the functional and non functional capabilities are appropriated identified, prioritised and delivered maintaining a trade-off between delivering required features for business facing epics and non functional / hygiene factors
• Create, manage and communicate the short, medium and long term roadmap for your component and ensure alignment to business defined milestones and deliveries
• Work with the Scrum Master and delivery team(s) assigned to your platform component to break down epics/user stories providing sufficient detail and acceptance criteria, allowing development to commence and all aspects of the feature / capability to be tested in a fully automated manner
• Ensure your platform component aligns to the agreed non-functional requirements, provides diagnostics and is delivered with a first class ability to rapidly identify, fix and deploy in reaction to production issues
• Work with Technical Authors to ensure that appropriate documentation is created for the platform component to allow long term maintainability and extensibility; and for all APIs / interfaces to facilitate integration with the component
• Ensure security and data privacy is embedded by design in all aspects of the component build and run lifecycle
• Collaborate with other technical product owners or technology functions to ensure all functional and non-functional capabilities required by any stakeholders are appropriately identified, delivered and measured (where appropriate) by the platform as a whole. 

What does the ideal candidate’s background look like : 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required; ideally in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related discipline
• Experience in product and engineering management in a complex environment
• Ideally experience from organisation with strong software engineering ethos  
• Experience with online collaboration tools such as Office365 and the Atlassian toolset (Bonus!)
• Strong leadership capabilities with the ability to effectively communicate between business leaders and tech talent pool demonstrating stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Strong understanding of market trends and best practices within technology and technical product management
• Skilled at defining and prioritising technical product initiatives in a complex architecture
• Demonstrates and adheres to the values as below;
  • Agile, by moving quickly, adapting to change, reducing complexity wherever possible and being flexible
  • Pioneering, by displaying initiative, not being afraid to take risks and leading by thinking, saying and doing - Ambitious, by constantly driving forward towards success and displaying enthusiasm for the challenges ahead

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Role Overview
We're looking for a talented DevOps engineer to help us build out our customers' products and solutions on Google Cloud Platform. The role is not just about being able to write the code, but also being able to architect, integrate and institute best practices to the DevOps competency at DotModus

We value a DevOps Engineer as someone who helps us build our customer products and solutions on any cloud platform.

We’re not only looking for someone to do the work. We’re looking for someone who can provide technical leadership for the team. Someone who knows and who will advocate for best DevOps practices, ideas and successes with other product delivery teams. The technologies which will be most advantageous would include systems design, networking, data storage, security, artificial intelligence, container orchestration and most importantly automation. 

We’re looking for someone that has the technical expertise, someone who can get their hands dirty to design, test, deploy and maintain DevOps solutions,  but also someone who can lead and mentor a team 

Responsibilities 

• Collaborate with other Leads in Data Engineering (Lead Architect, Lead Automation Tester) and other Technology functions to deliver secure, reliable, robust, scalable solutions which can be built, tested and deployed through the Route to Live and into Production using continuous integration / deployment.
• Allocate your team’s workload and manage the expectations of key stakeholders.
• Responsible for detailed design and oversight in the team deliverables.
• Identify and implement DevOps engineering best practices in conjunction with your peers, both within Data Engineering and Technology as a whole
• Ensure the use of continuous delivery pipelines and tools to fully automate deployment, testing, delivery, and management of development, QA and production systems on a variety of cloud platforms
• Troubleshoot and take ownership of issues in our development, test and production environments. Including performance optimization and continuous tuning
• Continuous learning and evaluation of the latest approaches, tools, and technologies

Candidate Profile

• An individual thinker, not afraid to think outside of the box and to challenge preconceived ideas.
• Self-starter and disciplined to take ownership of critical areas for continuous improvement.
• Proven experience managing DevOps teams and mentoring engineers
• A passionate advocate of continuous deployment
• Industry experience working with Big Data platforms
• Knowledge of microservice architecture
• Ability to quickly learn and apply emerging techniques, frameworks, and platforms
• Working experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes an advantage
• Good communication and collaboration skills

Technical Skills Required

• Must be from a UNIX / Linux background
• Understanding of protocols and how they work. (TCP/UDP/gRPC)
• Experience in message bus (Preferably Kafka)
• Expert knowledge in container management technologies (emphasis on Kubernetes)
• Expert knowledge of continuous integration and automated testing
• Expert in configuration management tooling (Chef, Ansible, Puppet)
• Experience in one of more popular CI platforms (e.g. Github Action,Jenkins,Bamboo, or Travis) required.
• Experience with Helm package manager required
• Strong experience in at least one major cloud platform required
• Experience with Draft and Brigade an advantage
• Expert knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform required)
• Good understanding of PKI required
• Expert scripting skills required (bash/sh/ksh)
• Experience in another language (e.g. Golang, Javascript, Python, Perl) an advantage
• Experience in advanced monitoring models. (Prometheus an advantage)
• Experience in using and manipulating API’s, API documentation. (Swagger, Postman) an advantage.
• Distributed logging frameworks. (Greylog, rsyslog, logstash).
• Visualization experience advantage (ELK, Grafana, Splunk).
• RHCE an advantage

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The Role

We value a data engineer as someone who works behind the scenes to obtain, process and supply data via various methodologies and technologies, to various consumers, in ways and forms that make sense and add value. This definition is very broad, as the field of data engineering is just as broad.

You may be the type of data engineer that develops API endpoints for the consumption of data by end users or even another data pipeline, or you may be the type of data engineer that develops highly distributed, high availability data processing pipelines in an effort to satisfy the need of the ever questioning data analysts and/or data scientists. 

For this role, we’re looking for experienced Big Data Engineers with experience in building data warehouses and / or transactional data models within the Big Data environment. 

That means that Spark / PySpark experience, as well as experience with the Hadoop EcoSystem, which leads on to any Python, Scala or Java coding experience. We need someone who can build data pipelines (ELT / ETL) within the Big Data environment. 

Some additional skills and experience required would be:

• In depth architectural knowledge of Spark and Hadoop
• Expert in building ETL pipelines using Spark (Pyspark)
• Experience using Spark with HDFS,
• Experienced writing data pipelines using functional programming (Python, Java, Scala)
• Advanced ANSI SQL experience
• Firm understanding of Big Data and traditional data processing, understanding the differences in depth to make informed design decisions
• Firm understanding of data Modelling OLAP vs. OLTP vs. Hybrid models
• Firm understanding of dimensional modelling i.e. Kimball 

Skills that would be beneficial:

• Experience using Spark with Cloud Storage and Hiveserver2 LLAP (HWC)
• Proven track record of developing DAGs using Apache Airflow
• Exposure to Ranger and Atlas

If you have experience in these areas, have the ability to solve problems and you’re looking for a challenging project to work on - let us know.

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Data Engineer

We value a data engineer as someone who works behind the scenes to obtain, process and supply data via various methodologies and technologies, to various consumers, in ways and forms that makes sense and add value. This definition is very broad, as the field of data engineering is just as broad.

You may be the type of data engineer that develops API endpoints for the consumption of data by end users or even another data pipeline, or you may be the type of data engineer that develops highly distributed, high availability data processing pipelines in an effort to satisfy the need of the ever questioning data analysts and/or data scientists.

You have awesome knowledge about the following concepts

• Data modelling
• Relational data modelling in traditional relational database management systems. (Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc)
• Coercing unstructured and semi-structured data into a structured form.
• Data pipelining knowledge - data extraction and transformation.
• Data transformation knowledge for reporting and analytics purposes.
• Knowledge of the MapReduce and related data processing paradigms would be a boon.

You have the following technical competencies

• Writing SQL queries, that can relate, transform and aggregate data from many differing sources where natural keys may or may not exist.
• Experience with writing data pipelines that move and transform data, for various uses.
• Working knowledge of a general purpose programming language like Python would be a boost.
• Working knowledge of columnar databases such as Google BigQuery, and SAP HANA would be a boost.
• Working knowledge of highly distributed technologies such as Apache Hadoop or Apache Spark would be a boost.
• Working knowledge of NoSQL technologies, such as Apache Solr would be a boost.

You have the following personal competencies

• The ability to solve problems.
• The ability to rotate around a problem, to see if solutions can be gained in different ways.
• The ability to work in an ever changing, unstructured environment.
• The ability to work as part of a team, with vastly differing skill sets and opinions.
• The ability to contribute ideas to the quorum.
• The ability to mentor and provide guidance for other team members.
• A systems approach to thinking, as opposed to a siloed approach. The candidate needs to understand how their work affects the greater system.
• The ability to work without supervision, and take accountability for the work they deliver.
• The ability to liaise with a client, sifting through the fluff and extracting the actual requirements. 

If this is you - apply now and we'll get in touch