Job Detail

Umanova is a Swiss professional services company with an innovative and future oriented approach to consulting providing outstanding conditions.

For our international customer in Adliswil we are looking  for a lead engineer to join their platform team for the workstream "Results Data and BI". The platform team (~15 engineers) designs, owns and supports all shared components and especially the frameworks. The project is a multi-year Finance Transformation project, greenfield on MS azure with both cloud-native and legacy components. 

Core Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and maintain a large scale Business-Intelligence BackEnd incl the framework used for accessing, discovering, manipulating and distributing the results-data (CQRS)


• Select the tools for best of breed and fit for purpose, using feasibility studies and PoCs


• Discover requirement in a bottom up approach


• Provide in-depth knowledge to the team for the chosen Data Storage Design (most likely NoSQL)


• Design, implement and continuously improve features of this BI-backend-framework


• Design, implement and maintain the data lifecycle management process for the results data


• Implement and maintain in the CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps


• Design and evangelize Best Practices for using the framework with example code, ReadMe and HowTos


• Design, implement and maintain the integration to Apache Kafka


• Align with Automation lead on quality controls and continuous testing best practices especially including blue/green and canary


• Design and maintain the availability and stability of all long-living state (e.g. the data store)


• Implement continuous improvements on governance aspects (e.g. Encryption)


• Efficiently leverage Azure services


• Continuously work with the teams to improve all components as the use-cases grow more complex


• Own validity and applicability of libraries and licenses of all vendors of the BI framework


• Design and implement observability concept


• Design High Availability and Disaster Recovery Strategies (incl multi zone deployments and consistency) in the context of event-sourcing with special focus on securing and protecting the event-store and guaranteeing replayability


• Train other engineers


• Ensure compliance with the company wide digital governance framework, audit
  
  
  
  
  
  Must have skills:


• Strong experience with Linearly scalable Data Storage solutions for structured and semi- structured data


• Strong experience with archiving and data life cycle management


• Strong experience with data storage design and indexing


• Multi year experience with operating state (esp in the cloud)


• Solid knowledge of CQRS and Event carried state transfer


• Relevant experience with query languages especially OData


• Solid server side OO-software development skills in modern enterprise grade languages


• Worked with CI/CD for integration, migration and deployment: Experience in automated build, test & deploy with an explicit focus on state-management and state-handling


• Excellent communication in English, written and spoken


• High ambiguity tolerance and ability to deliver MVPs in fail fast approach


• Delegation and (self-)management skills for working in a flat and distributed team


• Strong Experience with "Infrastructure as Code"


• Linux OS (Ubuntu, SLES) and Unix


• Knowledge of event-driven architecture and micro-services

Nice to have skills:

• Experience Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker,


• Performance testing


• Expert Knowledge of git


• SAP Netweaver (very optional) 

Frameworks / Tools:

• Azure DevOps, Ansible, yaml-pipelines, Helm, build agents, scripting (bash, python)


• Container-based (Docker / Kubernetes) orchestration


• High availability of statefulness using cloud-native techniques


• Can read code written in industry standard polyglot  (Java/ Spring/ Python/ JS)


• DB-queries (also NoSQL) e.g. Couchbase, SAP HANA, Postgres


• Cloud managed services (e.g. Blob Storage, databases, Insights, Security Center)


• Build and deployment tools such as Git, Gradle, Maven


• API Gateways, HTTPS, REST/ODATA/GraphQL/etc API-specs


• State-management e.g. Zookeeper, Schema Registry, Event Store


• Aqua, Qualys, DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus, Zeebe, Vault

Other essential skills:

• Excellent communication in English, written and spoken


• Strong autonomy, team spirit, interpersonal skills and ability to work in a complex environment


• Time management and self-organization of the workload

We are looking forward to your application. For further information please contact

marijana.elenova at umanova.com or call +41 (0) 22 736 12 15