Senior Engineer

Company Description

Informa is a leading academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge and events business, creating unique content and connectivity for customers all over the world. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100.

Taylor & Francis Group produces high quality, peer reviewed books and journals. We produce unique, trusted content by expert authors, spreading knowledge and promoting discovery globally. We aim to broaden thinking and advance understanding, providing academics and professionals with a platform to share ideas and realise their individual potential.

Job Description

We at Taylor & Francis believe in the possibility of a better future and are investing significantly in our digital infrastructure to enable us to play a critical part in bringing it about. We have embarked on a results-oriented programme to improve our capabilities as a digital knowledge business and help bring about transformation towards end-to-end digital processes across T&F’s Researcher Services business.

You will be a hardworking and driven member of our Content and Data Domain team working with colleagues from across Product, Architecture, Business Analysis and Engineering to provide a robust solution that not only meet business needs but align with our longer-term technology roadmap. You’ll work with a hardworking team of like-minded, driven Engineers working on some highly visible, large-scale projects that impact a wide range of business and technology partners.

We are looking for a multifaceted, hardworking Senior Engineer who is ready for a challenge where collaboration, technical ability, stakeholder interaction, and problem-solving skills are critical. The Senior Engineer should have a strong background in building scalable, reliable and high-performance applications in an agile environment.

What you'll be doing:

• Working alongside a team comprising of skilled engineering professionals, leads analysts and managers.
• Designs develop, improves and implement reliable product content systems, in alignment to the targeted design and architecture.
• Researches, builds, and coordinates the conversion and/or integration of new products based on client requirements. Designs and develops new software products or major enhancements to existing software through the development team
• Addresses problems of systems integration, compatibility, and multiple platforms.
• Consults with project teams and end users to identify application requirements
• Performs feasibility analysis on potential future projects to senior management
• Assists in the evaluation and recommendation of application software packages, application integration and testing tools
• Resolves problems with software and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements
• To be proficient in design patterns so that the low-level design or solution can be reused.
• Code Review, code merge and looking after deployments and releases.

Qualifications

• At the least 5 years of overall hands-on experienced senior engineer/developer with excellent application system design, architecture and development skills
• Strong agile experience in Scrum methodology
• Proven experience in designing, implementing and managing high performance scalable J2EE applications on Linux/Unix platforms.
• Experience in design and development of Amazon Web Services - AWS EB Stack, EC2, SQS, SNS, S3 SDKs.
• Experience in Jenkins, Bamboo, Junit, Selenium, WireMock, Mockito, Camel, Spring MVC, Spring Boot Frameworks.
• Experience with JavaScript Object-based model and programming like TypeScript 4 & NPM @Types.
• Hands-on with Build and Release tools like Github, Junit, Mockito, NPM, Python, Shell Script etc.
• Excellent knowledge of mico services, data modelling techniques, REST Web services
• Strong experience designing/developing with n-tier architectures (UI, Business Logic Layer, Data Access Layer)
• Strong experience in Non-SQL MongoDB and RDBMS databases.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Self-motivated, independent, detailed, and a responsible team-player
• The ability to communicate optimally - both verbally and in writing.
• Cloud-based application development

Additional Information

• 25 days annual leave
• Volunteering days annually
• Day off for your birthday
• Pension contributions
• Seasonal social and charitable events
• Training and development

At Taylor & Francis, we care about our colleagues, promoting work-life balance, wellbeing and flexible working. We believe that the skills and experience you bring to Taylor & Francis are invaluable. We want you to have the opportunity to develop your abilities, and to innovate and develop in areas which you are passionate about.

• You must have the right to work and live in the United Kingdom
• This role may be based at our Milton Park, Oxford office