Data Engineer - City of London, United Kingdom - Colossus Associates

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Description
Senior Data Engineer
Hybrid
About us
Hybrid role - Based in London
About the role
We are seeking a committed and passionate Quantitative Data Engineer to work with us on our climate technology platform
The impact you'll own

  • Ability to utilise Natural Language Processing, Regular Expressions, and similar techniques.
  • Pipelining a solution to run at scale, in parallel, and (AWS) backend.
  • Undertake initial research for and rapidly prototype a Proof of Concept (PoC) for the financial impacts of business disruption associated with physical asset addresses.
  • Create a geocoding module with Mapbox/Google Places/alternative APIs to source information that is not readily available, conducting basic spatial analytics on results.
  • Working with Front End Developers to deliver a visualised / User Interface version of the Business Disruption module, integrated into the risk analytics platform Spectra, including product requirements and UAT.
  • Conduct continuous documentation of both the technical solution and user guides for the Spectra Business Disruption module.
  • Delivering adhoc customer requests before the solution is productionised.
  • Researching ways to improve and optimise the existing approach.
  • Explaining the end product complexities to nontechnical audiences including internal and external stakeholders.
What you bring

  • Relevant Agile environment experience.
  • Demonstratable capabilities in at least one lowlevel language (e.g. C/C++/Java/C#) and one scripting language (Python, R) or similar.
  • Proven expertise working on Public Cloudbased environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
  • Excellent analytical and quantitative skills, with a strong knowledge of data modelling and data analysis.
  • Capacity for independent and creative thinking/writing on research and statistical problems.
  • Ability to work with data from multiple sources, and experience working with large data sets.
  • A strong eye for process improvement and a proven record of accomplishment in automation.
  • Ability to understand complex systems quickly and to improve processes proactively.
  • Capability for handling multiple stakeholders, have excellent multitasking skills and be able to prioritise competing workloads.
What makes you stand out

  • Comfortable participating in language, framework, and platform selection processes, with respect to data tools and software.
  • Ability to exercise excellent time management and meet multiple deadlines
  • Demonstrated excellence in project management and organisation
  • High level of critical thinking and analytical skills.
Compensation

  • As a high growth startup, the budget is £85k base negotiable for the right person
  • Negotiable ESOP & commission structures.
  • Salary increases as the company scales and progression.
  • As the company hits key milestones + the function grows, base salary will continue to be revisited + recalibrated.
  • We also provide many other benefits:
  • Culture/mission is key + something our people can be proud of; we are literally transforming the world around us into one that will be more resilient to the impacts of climate change
  • Working with incredibly smart people in a fast paced environment, building a new industry
- £1.5k personal training allowance

  • Funding of memberships/access to events
  • Access to unlimited therapy + mental health support via Oliva
  • Team offsites
  • Fruit box/coffee
  • Birthday lay in + Spa voucher + 25 Holiday days + 2 Days off for Volunteering + Bank holidays
  • Green pension + Benefits Allowance
  • We're heading for our B-Corp certification

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