Senior Software Engineer II needed at LexisNexis South Africa

About the Role

• As a Senior Software Engineer, you will undertake difficult research, design, and software development assignments within the French team. You will provide direct input to project plans, schedules, and methodology in the setup, the development, and the tuning of a data analytics platform. You will perform architecture design – typically across multiple components; mentor more junior members of the team and work with others to talk to users/customers and translate their requests into solutions. 

Responsibilities

• Contributing as part of a SCRUM squad team to develop cutting-edge legal search engine & analytics product.
• Ensuring technical consistency and overall code quality and maintainability, co-create technical components with the architect of the product.
• Defining, coordinating and providing direct input to project plans.
• Writing and reviewing portions of detailed specifications for the development of complex system components.
• Implementing development processes, coding best practices and code reviews, resolve technical issues as necessary.
• Keeping abreast of new technology developments and follow global RELX technical strategy.
• Mentoring more junior members of the team.

Requirements

• Have 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, especially in the distributed data transform and load platforms.
• Have a BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience required.
• Have solid experience with various resource models such as Managed Services and/or Staff Augmentation. 
• Be proficient with data manipulation language including optimization techniques, strong understanding of normalized/dimensional data modeling principles.
• Have expertise in development languages and technical stack including but not limited to: AWS Cloud (services: Lambda, S3, Redshift, DocumentDB, event Brigdge, SES, or SNS…), and Python (Java is a plus), 
• Be familiar with distributed data analytics platforms such as Apache Spark or Databricks, Apache Flink and Databases e.g REDIS, Redshift, PostgreSQL, Graph DB, SQL, NoSQL, Apache Solr.
• Be an exceptional problem-solver with experience in leading teams including identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex project issues.