Data Engineer

Job Title: Data Engineer
Division: WBS
Location: APAC (Philippines/Malaysia/Indonesia)
Remote

Purpose of Role:

Weir requires a Data Engineer to join the growing Group Data & Analytics team tasked with establishing an Azure based data platform and delivering on the data and analytics needs of the organisation.  This role complements existing data engineers around the world forming a virtual team to meet the needs of our global organisation.  The role includes all aspects of data engineering and cover the full development lifecycle including analysis, development, testing and operational support.  The team operates using an Agile methodology, drives continuous improvement and is highly collaborative with IT and business stakeholders. The role is within a globally distributed team and the ideal candidate will be highly collaborative, a self-starter, a champion for the team, and passionate about delivering quality solutions.

Why choose Weir:
Be part of a global organization dedicated to building a better future: At Weir, the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing, quickly adapting and continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each of us doing the best work of our lives. It’s a big challenge – but it is exciting.

An opportunity to grow your own way: Everything moves fast in the dynamic world of Weir. This creates opportunities for us to take on new challenges, explore new areas, learn, progress and excel. Best of all, there is no set path that our people must take. Instead, everyone is given the support and freedom to tailor-make their own career and do the best work of their lives.

Feel empowered to be yourself and belong: Weir is a welcoming, inclusive place, where each individual’s contribution is recognized and all employees are encouraged to innovate, collaborate and be themselves. We continually focus on people and their wellbeing. We believe in fairness and choose to be honest, transparent and authentic in everything we do.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to our data engineering projects by performing all aspects of data/software engineering predominantly utilizing Azure technologies

• Write well-designed, testable and maintainable code

• Collaborate cross-functionally with architects, data engineers, data scientists, analysts and other engineers to deliver solutions

• Work with product management and business users to understand requirements and priorities

• Support, troubleshoot, debug, improve and upgrade existing systems and processes to ensure SLAs

• Contribute to data operations development and related activities

• Participate in all team agile ceremonies and continuous improvement activities

Job Knowledge/Education and Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience developing backend, data intensive systems

• At least 2 years of experience with designing, building, testing, and maintaining secure and scalable cloud applications and services in Azure

• Experience building batch and streaming data pipelines and working with structured and non-structured data

• Production development experience with Azure platform

• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and distributed, cloud-native systems

• Experience working with Git as source control and should understand the concepts around pull requests, branches, repositories

• Experience implementing automated build and release deployment methodologies in a DevOps or continuous deployment environment

• Self-starter capable of working independently with minimal supervision

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related engineering discipline or equivalent work experience

• Strong organizational & time-management skills with the ability to prioritise multiple and competing tasks.

• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision.

• Ability to work with diverse groups of professionals in close cooperation.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• A committed and proactive attitude towards Environment, Health and Safety

Founded in 1871, Weir is a world leading engineering business with a purpose to make mining operations smarter, more efficient and sustainable. Thanks to Weir’s technology, our customers can produce essential metals and minerals using less energy, water and waste at lower cost. With the increasing need for metals and minerals for climate change solutions, Weir colleagues are playing their part in powering a low carbon future. We are a global family of 11,000 uniquely talented people in over 60 counties, inspiring each other to do the best work of our lives.

For additional information about what it is like to work at Weir, please visit our Career Page and LinkedIn Life Page.

Weir is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

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