Senior Data/Platform Engineer

Senior Data/Platform Engineer

Are you a Data Engineer with keen interest of keeping up to date with new technologies?
 

Are you a highly skilled data engineer looking to drive innovation?
 

About our Team
 

The Research Data Product team at Elsevier is committed to creating a high-quality collection of enriched research data metadata. They integrate over 30 million records from 3200+ repositories to support institutions in monitoring their research outputs. This empowers university libraries and research offices to make well-informed decisions about Research Data Management by staying informed about researchers' data-sharing practices.
 

About the Role
 

As a Senior Data/Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing big-data applications. Your role will involve contributing to the development of our data product within the Research Data Product team.
 

Responsibilities
 

• Collaborating as part of a tight-knit, agile, quality-focused team to understand complex product requirements to design and deliver desired outcomes while collaborating with key stakeholders.
• Engaging in all aspects of the development lifecycle, apply common practices and create good quality software ensuring compliance with company standards for accessibility, security and privacy protection.
• Identifying opportunities for improvement in the technical solution and implement changes alongside business requirements
• Keeping abreast of modern technological developments! Ability to drive new developments, implement process changes and disruptive technologies in the organization.
• Resolving complex technical issues, as necessary, researching and identifying the root cause and providing long-term reliable solutions.
• Contributing to our organization's growth, share experience, knowledge, mentor less-senior software developers.

Requirements
 

• Experience and understanding of software engineering design principles and (data) architectures (e.g. data mesh vs data fabric vs data lake, streaming processing, microservices, API-first, event-driven).
• Understand of data modeling (and layering) principles in a modern big data stack.
• Expertise in Java based development languages, distributed applications frameworks (such as Spark / Delta), data services, databases (SQL/NoSQL) and/or search indexes (SolR/Elastic).
• Knowledge and working experience in AWS (or similar), especially with block storage (e.g. S3), data processing (e.g. EMR, Athena/Glue) and messaging services (e.g. SQS) and knowing how to deploy these using infrastructure-as-a-code tools (to safely and predictably provision and manage infrastructure).
• Experience with software development with code provisioning and CI/CD pipelines utilizing tools like Git and, respectively, Jenkins.
• Experience working with orchestration frameworks like Airflow or event store systems like Kafka.
• Kknowledge of software development methodologies, such as Agile or Kanban

Work in a way that works for you
 

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
 

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working for you
 

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
 

• Dutch Share Purchase Plan
• Annual Profit Share Bonus
• Comprehensive Pension Plan
• Home, office or commuting allowance
• Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave
• Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave
• Flexible working hours
• Personal Choice budget
• Variety of online training courses and career roadshows
• Wellbeing programs and gym facility in the office
• Internal communities and networks
• Various employee discounts
• Recruitment introduction reward
• Work from anywhere
• Employee Assistance Program (global)
• Annual Event

About the Business
 

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.