- Full Time
- Hybrid, UK
Aker Systems
Aker Systems was founded in 2017 by a team of experienced technology professionals who recognised an opportunity to provide highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations. We build and operate ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Our proprietary technology solutions drive performance and reduce costs while helping our clients to improve the management and sharing of data across their organisations.
In 2024, Aker Systems won the Breakthrough Culture Awards highlighting growth companies putting culture first. In 2020 Aker Systems was recognised as a ‘One to Watch’ on the Sunday Times Tech Track. The Company was also recognised at the Thames Valley Tech Awards 2020; winning the Thames Valley Tech Company of the year, the Emerging Tech Company and High Growth Tech Business categories. We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, and supportive place for you to do your very best work.
Due to the nature of the work and the customers, you must hold enhanced DV Security Clearance.
As a Lead Data Platform Engineer, you will help lead the development of backend services for a government client leveraging the latest commercial and open-source technologies. This involves designing, developing, documenting and deploying backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Design, develop, document and deploy new or enhanced features to our backend services that meet functional / non-functional business requirements
- Actively participate in the team’s elaboration and estimation of user stories
- Build frequent, small releases to maintain the team’s momentum
- Collaborate closely with other engineers in our cross-functional feature teams; ensuring that others can cover for you, and that you can cover for them
- Build, optimise and operate our Continuous Deployment pipelines
- Maintain operational responsibility for the services that your team owns
Core Experience & Competencies
The successful candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree or greater in Computer Science or a related field or an equivalent of at least 5 years of working experience in a similar capacity.
You will have demonstrated the following competencies to the proficiency level appropriate to the seniority of the role.
- JAVA programming experience as the core language, including Spring Boot.
- Fluent in writing JAVA coding.
- Experience with Kafka or a similar platform.
- Experience with Scala and Spark.
- Integrating with backing services, such as PostgreSQL, Redis or S3
- Good engineering practices including continuous delivery, clean code, documentation, defensive programming, automated testing and code reviews
- Working in Agile development and/or DevOps teams
- Using GitHub/GitLab for source control
- Test Driven Development with appropriate tools and frameworks
- Experience in Big Data technologies
- Experience in Public Cloud services, such as AWS
Aker Systems Attributes
At Aker we work as a team; we are collaborative, hardworking, open, and delivery obsessed. There is no blame culture here: try things, and take responsibility for the outcomes. You are always part of the wider Aker. We help our colleagues and take pride in successfully achieving difficult tasks. We run towards problems and help to solve them. Communicate always, do so accurately and in a timely fashion.
In return, we offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, company paid medical insurance and life assurance, pension scheme, annual training allowance, wellbeing allowance, virtual GP, Employee Assistance plan and more.
Equal Opportunities
Aker Systems fosters a diverse environment that encourages openness in its communications and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics. We embrace differences of opinion and diversity because they help challenge us and find new groundbreaking technical solutions.
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