Aker Systems - Lead Data Platform Engineer (eDV)

• 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.