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<div class="content-intro"><h3><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">About Baringa </span></h3>
<p>Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding.</p>
<p>The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.</p>
<p>Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.</p>
<p>Certified as a <em>Great Place to Work </em>around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the <em>Financial Times </em>in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by <em>Forbes </em>for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.</p></div><h2><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 53, 142);"><span data-contrast="none">Our Energy Products Practice is looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to join the team.</span> </span></h2>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Baringa are world leaders in modelling energy markets and using the insights generated through these models to drive change in a decarbonising energy industry. The Energy Products practice specialises in the development and innovation of our analytical models and supporting technology ecosystem underpinned by our deep expertise in the energy markets.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Our staff come from diverse backgrounds, based across multiple geographies, and building models that utilise highly varied data sources – everything from kilobytes of academic papers to terabytes of hourly scenario projections for 50+ years. They need rapid access to data, analytics outputs, and highly scalable data processing infrastructure. Our scale and model complexity has reached a point that to continue to achieve our business vision, we are building a dedicated global Data and Processing Platform team.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Come and join us to be part of the energy transition, the defining challenge of our lifetimes, where your technical skills and experience can have real impact.</span></p>
<h3><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142);"><span data-contrast="none">What you will be doing</span></span></h3>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">We are looking for a Senior Platform Software Engineer to join as a core member of the Data and Processing Platform team, taking on a key role alongside the Engineering Lead to build the foundations and shared capabilities that support Baringa’s continued growth and evolution. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335551500":8288,"335552541":1,"335559685":927,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">You will help shape the design, implementation and ongoing support of a greenfield Data and Processing Platform and its supporting software products</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335551500":8288,"335552541":1,"335559685":927,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">You will support the Engineering Lead to engage with internal developers, energy system modellers, client-facing energy experts, and users across the business to build capabilities that enable them to work more effectively and better serve our clients.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335551500":8288,"335552541":1,"335559685":927,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">You will help drive engineering best practices, ensuring that quality, reliability and observability are built into our products from inception.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335551500":8288,"335552541":1,"335559685":927,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">You will design and implement robust CI/CD automation flows, continually evolving our processes to improve the engineering experience for ourselves and the teams we support.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335551500":8288,"335552541":1,"335559685":927,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">You will take an active role in all stages of the team’s agile development approach, from refinement through to delivery, supporting the iterative improvement of our team processes.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<h3><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142);"><span data-contrast="none">Your skills and experience</span> </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></h3>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="8" data-list-defn-props="{"335551500":8288,"335552541":1,"335559685":927,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">You are passionate about building the ‘right’ solution to problems, with a desire to understand the problems at their core and ‘why’ a solution is fit for purpose.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="8" data-list-defn-props="{"335551500":8288,"335552541":1,"335559685":927,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">You will have practical experience as a senior engineer in high-performing engineering teams, collaborating closely with colleagues and taking pride in what you create.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="8" data-list-defn-props="{"335551500":8288,"335552541":1,"335559685":927,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">You are strong at solving complex problems and can flexibly consider different technologies/engineering approaches to achieve this.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="8" data-list-defn-props="{"335551500":8288,"335552541":1,"335559685":927,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">You have advanced working knowledge of a general programming language (e.g. Python, Java, C#, Typescript etc.) and understand both domain modelling and application programming.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="8" data-list-defn-props="{"335551500":8288,"335552541":1,"335559685":927,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">You have working knowledge of data management technologies (SQL, NoSQL, Databricks etc.)</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="8" data-list-defn-props="{"335551500":8288,"335552541":1,"335559685":927,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">You have working knowledge of modern software engineering tools (Git, CI/CD pipelines), cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure) and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi)</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="8" data-list-defn-props="{"335551500":8288,"335552541":1,"335559685":927,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="7" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">You have worked across the technology stack with experience of established frameworks (e.g. React/Angular/Vue/Blazor frontends and/or FastAPI/Spring Boot/.NET backends)</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="8" data-list-defn-props="{"335551500":8288,"335552541":1,"335559685":927,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="8" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">You have experience building and supporting different architectural approaches and are confident in justifying your technology and architectural choices.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="8" data-list-defn-props="{"335551500":8288,"335552541":1,"335559685":927,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="9" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">You are passionate about communicating complex concepts succinctly to both technical and non-technical audiences to reach a common understanding.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="8" data-list-defn-props="{"335551500":8288,"335552541":1,"335559685":927,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="10" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">You have experience working with agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum/Kanban), with an understanding of the key principles that underpin their effective use.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<p><span data-contrast="auto">We’ve seen research that says some candidates will not apply to a role if they don’t meet every requirement, but please do not let this put you off. If you think you are a good overall match please do get in touch – we look carefully at all applications, and you may well be our ideal candidate.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":2,"335559738":200,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p>
<h2><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142);"><span data-contrast="none">What a career at Baringa will give you</span> </span></h2>
<h3><br><span data-contrast="none"><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142);">Putting</span> </span><span data-contrast="none"><span style="color: rgb(208, 0, 111);">People</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142);"><span data-contrast="none">First.&