Senior Cloud Developer - Geospatial

Company: Verisk
Location: Jersey City
Posted on: April 3, 2021

Job Description:

Company Description At the heart of what we do is help clients manage risk. Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) provides data and insights to our customers in insurance, energy and the financial services markets so they can make faster and more informed decisions. Our global team uses AI, machine learning, automation, and other emerging technologies to collect and analyze billions of records. We provide advanced decision-support to prevent credit, lending, and cyber risks. In addition, we monitor and advise companies on complex global matters such as climate change, catastrophes, and geopolitical issues. But why we do our work is what sets us apart. It stems from a commitment to making the world better, safer and stronger. It's the reason Verisk is part of the UN Global Compact sustainability initiative. It's why we made a commitment to balancing 100 percent of our carbon emissions. It's the aim of our "returnship" program for experienced professionals rejoining the workforce after time away. And, it's what drives our annual Innovation Day, where we identify our next first-to-market innovations to solve our customers' problems. At its core, Verisk uses data to minimize risk and maximize value. But far bigger, is why we do what we do. At Verisk you can build an exciting career with meaningful work; create positive and lasting impact on business; and find the support, coaching, and training you need to advance your career. We have received the Great Place to Work-- Certification for the fourth consecutive year. We've been recognized by Forbes as a World's Best Employer and a Best Employer for Women, testaments to our culture of engagement and the value we place on an inclusive and diverse workforce. Verisk's Statement on Racial Equity and Diversity supports our commitment to these values and affecting positive and lasting change in the communities where we live and work. Job Description Verisk is seeking software development engineers with extensive AWS experience to join its Data and Analytic Services team supporting the office of Chief Analytics Officer. The ideal candidate will have hands-on full lifecycle software development and deployment experience in multiple languages and spanning the data, analytics and API layers, with proficiency in basic UI development. In addition the Senior Cloud Developer should have a thorough understanding of container based deployments including onto custom isolated environments, generic computing clusters such as ECS and EKS, as well as serverless environments such as Lambda. The Senior Cloud Developer will be capable of transforming end-user requirements to cloud deployed resources, working in agile team environments. The role requires solid experience in cloud computing environments, hands on technical skills, passion and appetite to master new technologies, and excellent communication skills. Additionally, for the current position we are seeking candidates with extensive experience developing geospatial applications leveraging and refactoring open source software into agile and scalable cloud services operating against a geospatial data lake environment. Purpose of the Role --- Lead the design and development of geospatial data services in the Verisk Nautilus analytics environment.--- Contribute to the design and development of complex ETL data pipelines targeting population of the Verisk Nautilus data lake.--- Design and build scalable applications to enable complex analytics development workflows.--- Contribute to the design and development of agile CI/CD pipelines enabling container based deployments to multiple cloud environments utilizing AWS CloudFormation and/or CDK frameworks as well as Terraform.--- Develop software and systems capable of handling sensitive data in secured cloud environments compliant with data governance standards.Success Criteria --- Rapidly integrate into the Nautilus DevOps team and contribute to the design, development, deployment and maintenance of core services in multiple production cloud accounts.--- Assess GIS workflows from multiple teams around Verisk and develop a Geospatial roadmap for Nautilus based on use of Open Source geospatial libraries. Lead the implementation of said roadmap.--- Promote a cloud-first, data lake centric mindset on data management across Verisk and assist data engineering teams in the elimination of technical debt around traditional RDBMS systems.--- Promote agile CI/CD focused DevOps processes.--- Promote culture of continuous learning around cloud technology and modern data architectures.Job Duties --- Plan and execute multiple software development efforts utilizing multiple languages.--- Develop and maintain the Data ETL pipelines to onboard datasets to Verisk cloud data platform.--- Develop geospatial data services based on open-source technology.--- Develop API driven services in accordance with business requirement.--- Work with internal/external customers to solve business problems around geospatial services.--- Keep up-to-date with the latest technologies and introduce them as needed.Qualifications --- Bachelor's degree or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.--- Minimum of 8 years full-time software engineering experience with at least four (4) years in an AWS environment focused on application development; AWS Certification preferred.--- Extensive experience with Distributed ETL pipelines.--- Extensive experience in using AWS IaaS and PaaS services.--- Extensive experience in Python and JavaScript programming languages.--- Extensive experience with CloudFormation OR Terraform for automated infrastructure management.--- Extensive experience with Docker container based deployments.--- Extensive experience with CI/CD tools such as Git, JIRA, and Jenkins.--- Analytics mindset with strong communication skills.Additional Information Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer. All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability. http://www.verisk.com/careers.html Unsolicited resumes sent to Verisk, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Verisk business mailing address, fax machine or email address, or directly to Verisk employees, will be considered Verisk property. Verisk will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Consumer Privacy Notice

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