Engineering Intern - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Wood Mackenzie Limited

Wood Mackenzie Limited

Verified Company

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

In the middle of the energy transition, businesses and governments are faced with significant challenges. But the pace and scale of change mean every decision is made under mounting pressure. Now, more than ever, companies need reliable data, analytics and actionable insight.

Wood Mackenzie is the leading global provider of data and analytics solutions for the renewables, energy and natural resources sectors.

Wood Mackenzie's services include data, analytics, insight, events and consultancy.

A trusted partner for over 50 years, Wood Mackenzie's team has over 2,300 experts across more than 30 global locations who cover the entire supply chain.

Wood Mackenzie Values

Inclusive we succeed together
Trusting we choose to trust each other
Customer committed we put customers at the heart of our decisions
Future Focused we accelerate change
Curious we turn knowledge into action

Company Description

Wood Mackenzie empowers our customers to overcome the world's toughest challenges and accelerate the world's transition to a more sustainable energy future.

For 50 years our global research, analytics, and consultancy business, has provided the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision-making.

Work alongside some of the most inspiring people in Energy, Natural Resources and Technology, and influence decisions that could change the world.

Are you ready to transform the way we power our planet?

Learn more here or watch a short video here

In the Power & Renewables Engineering teams we work closely with a variety of other functions and teams throughout Wood Mackenzie to build the products and processes that are at the forefront of the energy transition.

We work on interesting, challenging, and important problems covering a variety of areas such as solar power, wind power, green hydrogen, carbon capture, real-time Power markets, and renewables policy.

Every line of code you write is helping to change the way we power the planet.

About the role:

This role will allow you the opportunity to explore our technology stack, whether your interests are more frontend leaning, whether you're more of a backend data engineer, or whether ultimately you want to be a full-stack engineer.

You'll be paired with a Senior Engineer who'll help guide you through their team's technical problems while also being supported and collaborating with the wider team.

As an intern you'll be able to collaborate with our Product team to understand the problems our customers face and help design solutions to solve them.

Write maintainable, testable, and optimised code, as well as break work down into small iterations and work with the wider team to solve them.

Our Tech Stack
We use a wide variety of tools and technologies across our products.

Here's an idea of what you might encounter and be exposed to:

AWS, using Lambda, ECS and Kubernetes
to deploy our services
CDK and CloudFormation for infrastructure configuration
TypeScript, React, Redux, Apollo and ReactiveX
To develop our web products
We have a shared component library implementing our design system
NodeJS and NestJS to implement GraphQL and RESTful APIs
Python, Glue and Step Functions to run our ETL data pipelines
DynamoDB, Postgres, Elasticsearch and S for data storage

Requirements:

Studying towards a Bachelor's degree or professional qualification with a computing, engineering or data focus.
Applicants must have the legal Right to Work in the country this role is based in. We are unable to sponsor employment visas at this time.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for

Strong collaboration skills
The ability to creatively problemsolve
An analytical mind and eye for detail
Great written and verbal communication
Willingness to learn about our business from the ground up
Some knowledge of, and an interest in, our tech stack
Some knowledge of version control: Git

What's in it for you

At Wood Mackenzie, you will have opportunities to engage in meaningful work and collaboration with international stakeholders, creating a positive and lasting impact, and find the support, coaching, and training you need to kick-start your career.

In this role, you will get the following:

Valuable work experience and a comprehensive insight into the work of a leading research organisation
The opportunity to contribute to a research project, enabling you to put theory into practice
The encouragement to share your ideas
The chance to learn new skills that will be valuable to you in your future career

We are committed to supporting our people to Thrive.

We value different perspectives and aspire to create an inclusive environment that encourages diversity and fosters a sense of belonging.

WoodMackers have regular opportunities to get involved in our Wellness, Diversity and Inclusion, Community Engagement, and Sustainability initiativ