Data Engineer / London / Permanent / Competitive Salary

Data Engineer required on a permanent basis for a London based Law Firm paying a competitive salary. This is an exciting role working within a legal services company, focused on technology and social media, where you will be exposed to a variety of diverse clients alongside an extremely strong team.

This is a hands-on role in a fast-paced, collaborative team that presents plenty learning and growth opportunities.

Role and Responsibilities

• Coding, deploying and maintaining web crawlers, scrapers and data pipelines
• Developing frameworks, packages and tools to standardise and scale operations
• Building CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments
• Working closely with data scientists to provide them with data products
• Collaborating with software engineers to build scaled and resilient solutions

Skills and Experience

• Experience in any of the following would be ideal:

Python or R, and SQL
Web scraping, XPath, JMESPath, Regex, and Selenium
HTTP/HTTPS protocol, HTML, JSON, and API
Working with Linux, GitHub, and Cloud

• Experience in building automated crawlers, scrapers and data pipelines is ideal
• Appreciation for Machine Learning and how it could be used for the above
• Familiarity with Cloud and Software Engineering principles

Even if you don't meet every requirement in this job description, we still encourage you to apply. We're looking for ambitious team players who will add value and stick with us as we grow - not just candidates who check all the boxes!

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

Data Engineer / London / Permanent / Competitive Salary

Data Engineer required on a permanent basis for a London based Law Firm paying a competitive salary. This is an exciting role working within a legal services company, focused on technology and social media, where you will be exposed to a variety of diverse clients alongside an extremely strong team.

This is a hands-on role in a fast-paced, collaborative team that presents plenty learning and growth opportunities.

Role and Responsibilities

• Coding, deploying and maintaining web crawlers, scrapers and data pipelines
• Developing frameworks, packages and tools to standardise and scale operations
• Building CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments
• Working closely with data scientists to provide them with data products
• Collaborating with software engineers to build scaled and resilient solutions

Skills and Experience

• Experience in any of the following would be ideal:

Python or R, and SQL
Web scraping, XPath, JMESPath, Regex, and Selenium
HTTP/HTTPS protocol, HTML, JSON, and API
Working with Linux, GitHub, and Cloud

• Experience in building automated crawlers, scrapers and data pipelines is ideal
• Appreciation for Machine Learning and how it could be used for the above
• Familiarity with Cloud and Software Engineering principles

Even if you don't meet every requirement in this job description, we still encourage you to apply. We're looking for ambitious team players who will add value and stick with us as we grow - not just candidates who check all the boxes!

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

Web Tech Lead

Purpose of Role:

As a web tech lead, you will have a specialist in Web but use much wider technical experience to help steer your team and peer engineers. This is a hands on role so will be expected to support feature development as well as provide the leadership to other engineers.
You will help define how we use web and mobile to drive our business. You will share your passion and experience with others and encourage a sharing is caring culture as well as supporting less experienced team mates to grow and develop.
Your remit will go beyond projects as the wider engineering community will look to you for coaching and advice.
You will be a strong influence on others and your success will largely be based on that.

Principal Accountabilities
- Work as part of multidisciplinary teams, developing web backend systems and mobile apps
- Plan and prioritise work for your team, with the appropriate input from others
- Build up a solid understanding of the domain you are working in, and proactively identify and clarify new requirements
- Help team members present their work to technical and non-technical team members and stakeholders in a clear and engaging way
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement in your specialism and in your Community of Practice, leading by example
- Help run your community of practice, encouraging broad participation
- Use your understanding of Allica and its goals, to identify ways to enhance client relationships & develop new capabilities
- Proactively seek out learning opportunities for you and your colleagues, both within Allica and externally
- Mentor and support more junior colleagues e.g. through pair programming, answering questions
- Help more junior colleagues plan their careers and progress at Allica

Experience
- Collaborating with a diverse set of stakeholders to drive alignment, build trust, and foster engagement across multiple areas.
- A solid demonstrable experience of web development and of managing application state
- Solid understanding of:

• Common architectural patterns (such as MVC, Redux) and why such patterns are important
• Managing side effects and common frameworks (eg. Thunk, Sagas etc.)
• Networking (e.g. HTTP vs HTTPS)

- Extensive experience with:

• Source control (e.g. Git, GitFlow, GitHub, Bitbucket etc.)
• Package managers (e.g. NPM, Yarn, Bower)
• Testing frameworks (e.g. Selenium / Mocha / Chai / Jest)
• Working in an Agile environment
• Collaborating with designers, test engineers and 3rd parties

- A solid understanding of:

• SOLID principles
• Continuous integration and setting up of a CI environment
• Common authentication patterns (e.g. OAuth, SSO)
• Browser security (e.g. CORS, HSTS, Anti-forgery tokens, JWTs etc.)

For further information please contact Chloe Hawker /

Web Tech Lead

Purpose of Role:

As a web tech lead, you will have a specialist in Web but use much wider technical experience to help steer your team and peer engineers. This is a hands on role so will be expected to support feature development as well as provide the leadership to other engineers.
You will help define how we use web and mobile to drive our business. You will share your passion and experience with others and encourage a sharing is caring culture as well as supporting less experienced team mates to grow and develop.
Your remit will go beyond projects as the wider engineering community will look to you for coaching and advice.
You will be a strong influence on others and your success will largely be based on that.

Principal Accountabilities
- Work as part of multidisciplinary teams, developing web backend systems and mobile apps
- Plan and prioritise work for your team, with the appropriate input from others
- Build up a solid understanding of the domain you are working in, and proactively identify and clarify new requirements
- Help team members present their work to technical and non-technical team members and stakeholders in a clear and engaging way
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement in your specialism and in your Community of Practice, leading by example
- Help run your community of practice, encouraging broad participation
- Use your understanding of Allica and its goals, to identify ways to enhance client relationships & develop new capabilities
- Proactively seek out learning opportunities for you and your colleagues, both within Allica and externally
- Mentor and support more junior colleagues e.g. through pair programming, answering questions
- Help more junior colleagues plan their careers and progress at Allica

Experience
- Collaborating with a diverse set of stakeholders to drive alignment, build trust, and foster engagement across multiple areas.
- A solid demonstrable experience of web development and of managing application state
- Solid understanding of:

• Common architectural patterns (such as MVC, Redux) and why such patterns are important
• Managing side effects and common frameworks (eg. Thunk, Sagas etc.)
• Networking (e.g. HTTP vs HTTPS)

- Extensive experience with:

• Source control (e.g. Git, GitFlow, GitHub, Bitbucket etc.)
• Package managers (e.g. NPM, Yarn, Bower)
• Testing frameworks (e.g. Selenium / Mocha / Chai / Jest)
• Working in an Agile environment
• Collaborating with designers, test engineers and 3rd parties

- A solid understanding of:

• SOLID principles
• Continuous integration and setting up of a CI environment
• Common authentication patterns (e.g. OAuth, SSO)
• Browser security (e.g. CORS, HSTS, Anti-forgery tokens, JWTs etc.)

For further information please contact Chloe Hawker /