Job Opportunities at DotModus

• 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. 

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The Manager of Data Analytics and Insights will demonstrate a mastery of the tools, understand the business needs for their focus domain area, and be able to guide and influence their team to meet deliverables in their area of expertise. This role will provide strategic and technical direction for area of expertise and whose team’s tasks will include but not be limited to: analyzing trends, defining KPIs and methodology, designing experiments, working to help answer key business questions to help make decisions. The incumbent must be hands-on, results driven, and be able to articulate insights with the stakeholders that they partner with. They will ensure the business understands the effects of a new product/process. The role includes cooperation and coordination with various functions and leaders within the company and requires excellent communication skills. The incumbent will be required to develop and mentor other analysts.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop and mentor the team to influence the business with timely and accurate data insights and visualization.
• Lead by example to build a culture of accountability and rigor to substantiate proven business impact.
• Evolve and accelerate measurement practices, including novel test designs that ensure incremental learnings and modern sampling procedures to streamline results generation.
• Use data to analyze and evaluate, transform data and insights into business recommendations, communicate learnings and recommendations to various audiences of all levels.
• Support the build-out of performance reporting dashboards that scales with our global business.
• Work through tracking and data integrity issues with cross functional stakeholders in Engineering and Product teams.
• Bring clarity to KPIs, performance drivers, and competitive trends.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Math, Computer Science, Operations Research, Statistics and other related degrees.
• 8+ years of experience or relevant work experience in analytics, finance, or consulting roles.
• Experience using tools such as SQL/ SAS to assess datasets and recommend solutions.
• 2-3 years of experience managing a high-performance team of analysts.
• Experience mentoring and developing team members.
• Strong technical and quantitative background with outstanding analytical skills and the ability to synthesize situations for corresponding solutions, options and action plans to impact efficiency, and improvements to the business.
• In-depth knowledge in using tools needed for their focus domain area (examples: SQL, Python, R etc.)
• Ability to establish strong partnerships within different levels in the organization while adjusting communication as necessary to the specified audience.
• Data analysis, interpretation and the presentation of credible, business-focused recommendations.
• Ability to take initiative and manage deadlines and handle multiple priorities simultaneously with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work with engineering teams and define tracking requirements.
• Exposure to applied statistics.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Experience using BiqQuery, Google Cloud Platform a plus

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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 Security architect is primarily focused on ensuring that security is maintained and enhanced across Client. Within this role, the candidate will work across a wide variety of technologies and support Client deliveries at all levels, from Enterprise Security Architecture to Product Security implementations.
• They will work to embed a culture that drives toward the highest standards in security architecture and solutions engineering whilst ensuring that business requirements are understood and adhered to, and security risks are properly understood and mitigated. 

Role Responsibilities

• Collaborate to develop the strategies to protect the global Client network from the evolving cyber threats. 
• Partner with Client Security and Technology teams to development and implement application security standards, patterns and guidelines that support ongoing deliveries and balance risk and business benefit. 
• Champion initiatives to support a Secure by Design mindset and organization reuse. 
• Continuously review the design and effectiveness of application security controls and develop a program of continuous improvement to grow local capabilities. 
• Provide Subject Matter Expertise for key project deliveries, problem resolution and risk management. 
• Educate, and support Client to understand the changing application security threat landscape 
• Lead and mentor others to support and enable the business securely. 
• Support and grow the maturity of application security and architecture through partnerships on Client key deliverables. 

What we are looking for :

• The ability to build and grow relationships with business and technical stakeholders to advance application security goals 
• Extensive experience in Application Security complemented by broader experience of other information / cyber security areas 
• Creative problem solver. With the ability to analyze problems from multiple perspectives, enable all stakeholders’ views to be understood and deliver consensus-based outcomes   
• CISSP or equivalent security certification or experience. 
• Experience of Application Security and Application Development. 
• Experience of Cloud and DevOps practices. 
• The ability to communicate complex security issues to business stakeholders and others 
• Strategic thinking that can help matures the organizations security posture and approach

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• We’re looking for a talented Senior DevSecOps Engineer to help us build out our customers’ products and solutions on multiple hyper scalers (GCP/AWS/Azure). 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 DevSecOps competency at DotModus.
• We value a DevSecOps Engineer as someone who helps us build our customer products and solutions on any cloud platform. We’re not only looking for someone to just 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 DevSecOps 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 Security Architecture/Infrastructure
• 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)

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We value a Data Scientist as someone who works to build and deliver machine learning solutions using multiple methodologies and technologies, to various consumers, in ways and forms that make sense and add value. This definition is very broad, as is the field of data science.

As a Data Scientist you may need to develop predictive models, use existing off-the-shelf cognitive services from our cloud hyperscalers (GCP, AWS, Azure) or develop new models within the field of deep learning in an effort to generate value for our clients.

You have awesome knowledge about the following concepts

• Data - Uses methodical machine learning and statistical techniques to select and tune algorithms
• Experiments - Setup and execute experiments to quantify the performance of algorithms
• Stakeholder Management - Work with multiple stakeholders to understand the business problem and translate into deliverables
• Project Management - Work across a range of cross-functional projects to manage and deliver machine learning solutions to our clients
• Story telling - Tell engaging stories using non-technical language and visualizations to our clients and stakeholders 
• Use Case experience - Have completed a number of Machine Learning models, which have been deployed and run in Production

You have the following technical competencies

• Extract, analyse and interpret large amounts of data from a variety of data sources
• Ability to engineer and generate features for the purposes of building feature stores for training machine learning models.
• Working knowledge of deep learning toolkits such as Tensorflow or Pytorch
• Ability to define and understand the productisation of machine learning models
• Proficient knowledge of a general purpose programming language like Python for machine learning and data analytics
• Working knowledge of SQL queries, that can relate, transform and aggregate data from many differing sources where natural keys may or may not exist would be a bonus
• Working knowledge of any of the Cloud Hyperscalers would be a bonus

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. As the candidate you need to understand how your work affects the greater system
• The ability to work without supervision, and take accountability for the work you deliver
• The ability to liaise with a client, sifting through the fluff and extracting the actual requirements
• The ability to start with simply a problem statement, and be able to research, develop and deliver a solution or proven hypothesis

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**4 MONTH CONTRACT ROLE**

We are looking for a temporary Project Manager for 4 months (April – July 2021) to cover one of two possible posts – Media Platform Implementation or Operational Improvement. When we engage a suitable candidate into one of these roles, we will withdraw the other as we already have flexible internal resource to cover one of these two roles. This job description covers the Project Manager (Operational Improvement) role. 

Role purpose 

• Project Management of two important operational improvement initiatives in paid search and client reporting, plus other project management support as required. Involves working with global data and technology SMEs and our brand leaders. 

Key Accountabilities 

Project management (both projects) 

• Creation of project status reports and ongoing status updates to senior stakeholders  
• Creation and update of project and implementation plans  
• Management of RAID log and, proactive escalation and management of existing and emerging risks and issues  
• Ownership of all project documents and meetings ensuring clear agenda and that all actions arising are captured and tracked  
• Co-ordinating, assigning and driving project team activities to ensure project objectives are met  
• Working with SMEs and project stakeholders to define the scope and plans for future project phases and workstreams  
• Ensuring all project deliverables are achieved in line with time, cost and quality criteria 
• Ensure that all stakeholders are fully engaged, consulted and informed as required 

Client reporting project 

• Ongoing project management to ensure all key actions and milestones are achieved and deliverables achieve time, cost and quality criteria 
• Engage with SMEs and contacts from relevant teams to help source and curate relevant content, collate feedback and secure ongoing input for the playbook 
• Communicate and drive adoption of the playbook with SMEs and teams involved in reporting  
• Support the organization and delivery of comms activities to raise awareness of the playbook across the wider business e.g. Media Ops community presentation 
• Provide input / support as required on Media Ops projects/initiatives that require the data foundations playbook input e.g. input to review of Client Transition Playbook 
• Act as 1st level reviewer of assets for the playbook before it goes to the project editor 

Delivery and Implementation 

• Oversee the continued development of the Media reporting best practice toolkit currently in flight 
• Work with SMEs to identify, shape and produce content required for the toolkit 
• Provide quality assurance oversight of all project outputs 
• Maintain and track backlog of future development requirements to enhance the playbook  
• Act as the main custodian of the toolkit and assets specifically ownership of storage and version tracking of the product whilst in development   
• Comms & Change management 
• Work with the comms manager to define and plan comms activities 
• Work with the SMEs and project team to onboard target users to the toolkit 
• Help facilitate comms and PR activities to promote the use of the toolkit across the organization
• Ensure delivery of comms and engagement plans to raise awareness and drive adoption of the toolkit 
• Any other change management and embedding activities required to ensure successful adoption of the toolkit 

 Client reporting project 

• Ongoing project management to ensure all key actions and milestones are achieved and deliverables achieve time, cost and quality criteria 
• Engage with SMEs and contacts from relevant teams to help source and curate relevant content, collate feedback and secure ongoing input for the playbook 
• Communicate and drive adoption of the playbook with SMEs and teams involved in reporting  
• Support the organization and delivery of comms activities to raise awareness of the playbook across the wider business e.g. Media Ops community presentation 

Experience Required: 

• 5 years of project and change management experience global matrix/network organizations 
• Demonstrable delivery success in federated environments, managing delivery and influencing change without the benefit of regulatory requirements or formal mandates 
• Media experience preferred, especially media agency experience

Other Requirements: 

You will enjoy working in our team and perform well if you can answer “yes” to the following: 

• Can you get valuable things done even when there are multiple barriers to doing so?  
• Are your default settings energetic, optimistic, actions focused, solutions focused? 
• Can you thrive in a very agile, constantly and rapidly changing environment? 
• Are you a self-starter able to move forward with minimal direction and without full clarity? 
• Can you comfortably manage multiple-tasks? 
• Are you an excellent influencer able to get people, including senior stakeholders, on board with your ideas? 
• Can you communicate clearly, concisely and persuasively (even on technical subjects) with time poor stakeholders? 
• Do you have a strong attention to detail, taking pride in delivering first class outputs? 
• Do you have an 'easy user interface?' 
• Do you intuitively know when to challenge and when to pull back and/or try another route to getting what you need from people? 
• Are you structured, analytical and organized in your approach, getting things done as efficiently and effectively as possible? 
• Are you adept at pulling out approaches and learnings and developing these for use at scale? 
• Are you skilled in use of O365 suite plus recognized project management and analysis tools? 
• Are you hardwired with a mentality of reflect, learn, share, improve? 
• Are you collaborative by nature?  
• Do you prioritize business and team outcomes over your own? 
• Can you work well alone on projects and as part of a team (whether in the office or remotely)? 

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An App Developer is a Software Engineer whose primary responsibilities include creating, testing and programming apps for mobile phones, tablets and other mobile devices. 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 the app development space with React Native, 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 Mobile Application Development.
• You have at least 3 years experience the following: React Native (or Expo), javascript, typescript.
• Experience with location service.
• Experience with push notifications (in app messaging is a bonus).
• Experience with Unit testing and Functional testing.
• Experience with intergrating with Rest API's.
• Experience with Mobile Application CI/CD.
• Exposure to native app development on IOS or Android is a bonus.

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 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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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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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 Java and microservices, let us know and you could be our next to join our team!

You have the following technical competencies

• Minimum of 5 years Experience with Software Development, Data Warehousing or Big Data.
• You have at least 5 years experience in Java.
• Experience working with both maven and gradle.
• Experience in creating microservices, in particular Spring Boot.
• Experience with cloud technologies.
• Some experience in Kubernetes and Docker.

You have the following track record 

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or any related field
• Experience in taking responsibility for delivery and quality.
• 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 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.