Senior Software Engineer - Energy & Resources Analytics Platform

Baringa Partners; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in the UK seeks an experienced Senior Platform Software Engineer to join their Market, Advisory, and Analytics team. In this role, you will be integral in building a platform toolchain that meets the needs of colleagues and supports energy sector projects. The ideal candidate has experience with programming languages and data management platforms and is passionate about problem-solving. This position allows for flexible working arrangements and offers generous employee benefits.

Benefits

Generous Annual Leave Policy

Flexible Working

Corporate Responsibility Days

Wellbeing Fund

Profit Share Scheme

Qualifications

• You have practical experience as a senior engineer in a highly motivated engineering team.
• You have advanced working knowledge of a general programming language.
• You have working knowledge of data management platforms like SQL and NoSQL.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Engineering Lead to build platform tools.
• Develop and automate testing and deployment of the platform.
• Build a DevOps pipeline with CI and CD practices.

Skills

Programming language (Scala, Python, Java, C#)

Data management platforms (SQL, NoSQL, Spark/Databricks)

Modern software engineering tools (Git, CI/CD)

Cloud technologies (Azure, AWS)

Communication of complex concepts

Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)

Job description

Our Market, Advisory and Analytics practice are looking for experienced Senior Platform Software Engineers to join the team. Baringa are world leaders in modelling energy markets and using the insights these models provide to drive change in a decarbonising energy industry. We deal with highly varied modelling, data, and processing - everything from kilobytes of academic papers to terabytes of hourly scenario projections for 50+ years. Our staff come from diverse backgrounds, based across multiple geographies, and utilise a variety of technologies, tools and analytical modelling approaches. They need rapid access to data, analytics outputs, and processing through GUIs, APIs and other systems, whilst being given the confidence that everything is compliant, licensed and well-governed. Our scale and model complexity has now reached a point that to continue to achieve our business vision, we are building a dedicated global Platform team. We are looking for experienced software engineers to join as core members of this team to help architect, implement and support the tools that will be fundamental to Baringa's ongoing growth and success. This will be a high calibre team, where curiosity and a thirst to understand the problem space is not just encouraged, but prioritised. There will be a range of engineering challenges to solve at all levels, requiring the flexibility to adopt the right technology for a given problem space. Our next generation platform will be core to driving significant improvements to the lives and capabilities of our Baringa colleagues in the energy modelling space. Successful candidates will be given responsibility and freedom from day one, trusted to challenge and be challenged in turn, in an environment that rewards creativity and entrepreneurship as we build the foundations for Baringa's future. Come and join us to be part of the energy transition, the defining challenge of our lifetimes, where your technical skills and experience can have real impact.

What you will be doing

• Work closely with the Engineering Lead to engage tool developers, energy system modellers, client-facing energy experts and users across the business to build a platform and supporting toolchain that fulfills the needs of your Baringa colleagues.
• Be a driving force in the development, automated testing and deployment of the new platform, utilising best-practices to ensure quality, reliability and monitoring is built-in from inception.
• Work with the team to build a DevOps pipeline with robust CI and CD practices, with a focus on evolving our processes to improve our team's engineering experience.
• Be an active part of the team's agile development approach, from refinement through to demonstration and feedback, helping drive the continuous improvement of team processes as we grow and mature.

Your skills and experience

• You are passionate about building the 'right' solution to problems, and understanding the 'why' behind what you are building to support Baringa's work in the energy sector.
• You have practical experience as a senior engineer in a highly motivated engineering team, collaborating closely with colleagues and taking pride in what you create.
• You are great at problem solving and see all technologies/engineering as a means to achieve this.
• You have advanced working knowledge of a general programming language (e.g. Scala, Python, Java, C# etc.) and understand both domain modelling and application programming.
• You have working knowledge of data management platforms (SQL, NoSQL, Spark/Databricks etc.)
• You have working knowledge of modern software engineering tools (Git, CI/CD pipelines), cloud technologies (Azure, AWS) and IaC (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi)
• You have worked with different frameworks throughout technology stacks (e.g. React/Angular/Vue/Blazor frontends, FastAPI/Spring Boot/Django/.NET backends etc.)
• You have experience building and working across different architectural approaches, and are confident in justifying your technology and architectural choices.
• You are passionate about communicating complex concepts succinctly to both technical and non-technical colleagues and clients to reach a common understanding.
• You have experience working with agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum/Kanban), with an understanding of the key principles that underpin its effective use.

We set out to build the world's most trusted consulting firm - creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector. You'll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick - slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges. We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin.

Benefits

Some of these benefits include

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5‑Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working: We know that the 'ideal' work‑life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We've introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company's success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.