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About Us:   Partrac are one of Europe’s leading metocean providers for the renewables and other coastal and offshore industries. We are particularly well known for delivering high quality metocean monitoring campaigns to the growing offshore wind industry across Europe, including the floating wind sector which is developing rapidly.   We have an exciting opportunity for a Data Engineer (software development) to join our technical and engineering team.   We have a culture of quality, continual improvement, teamwork and openness. For candidates with the right aptitude there are opportunities to be involved in a range of exciting projects.   At Partrac we are proud to be a formative member company in game-changing offshore wind services business Venterra Group.   Job Overview:   Ownership of design, development, evolution and maintenance of the company’s metocean data pipeline. Lead on architectural design of how data is transmitted, received and supplied to Partrac Data Centre, including automated preprocessing before reaching the Partrac database. Ensuring scalability and cost-effectiveness of these processes to support company expansion and deliver high quality data to clients.   Job Purpose:   To design, build, and maintain the robust data pipelines transforming metocean data—collected from Floating and Subsea sensors —into high-quality, structured datasets which underpin the company’s key client deliverable. With the recent release of Partrac’s newly developed Floating LiDAR and a bespoke built Data Centre you will have the opportunity to shape the data architecture which provides key input into the offshore wind industry. You will be at the forefront of the companies developing strategy working with a multiskilled team of scientists, engineers and project managers.   Duties and Responsibilities:   Provide technical management of data architecture, cloud engineering, and system integration, developing the companies metocean data infrastructure. Automate and optimise current data analysis pipelines for both offline and real-time streaming data. Including the adoption of advanced AWS services and modern DevOps practices (e.g., serverless workflows, monitoring, CI/CD). Collaborate across teams to align technical solutions with business needs. Mentor and train colleagues across survey, data analysis, and data management teams. Provide ongoing technical support and system updates to ensure reliability of commercial buoy deployments.   Technical Capabilities:   Key: Enthusiasm to operate as part of a small but highly productive and quality focussed team Experience in requirement gathering, specification, implementation, testing, deployment, architecture and maintenance  Proficient in python and/or typescript programming language Experience on building cloud architecture (preferably AWS CDK) Experience using git and GitHub for version control and CI/CD Ability to communicate with data analytics team to build data processing procedure Clear and concise documentation of all software built Experience with SQL   Desirable: A degree in computer science, electronics engineering or equivalent software development experience Experience developing SPAs with React in a TDD environment Understanding of network architecture (VPNs, VPC, routing, subnetting, IP management) Experience of range of communication technologies – Satellite, LoRa, HF Previous experience with Iridium SBD data Implementing system components as microservices Experience writing unit, integration, and automated tests.   Why Partrac and Venterra Group?   Working at Partrac and the wider Venterra Group means you are trusted to use your initiative. We will give you the freedom to follow your ideas and to make an impact.   You will find yourself in a culture that champions quality, continual improvement, openness, personal development and teamwork. If you are on the lookout for new, better ways to do th