Software Engineer Senior Associate

A career in our Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence practice, within Analytics, will provide you with the opportunity to help organisations uncover enterprise insights and drive business results using smarter data analytics. We focus on a collection of organisational technology capabilities, including business intelligence, data management, and data assurance that help our clients drive innovation, growth, and change within their organisations in order to keep up with the changing nature of customers and technology. You’ll make impactful decisions by mixing mind and machine to leverage data, understand and navigate risk, and help our clients gain a competitive edge.Our team helps organisations understand the potential rewards and risks associated with implementing artificial intelligence tools. As part of the team, you’ll help with pattern recognition, predictive modelling, text mining and search, programming and miscellaneous data analytics.<p><b>Background</b><br /><br />The Technology &amp; Investments AI team is responsible for identifying and applying commercially sound AI use cases.</p><p></p><p>The team is made up of around 40 Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Software Engineers, and Consultants. We use machine learning and natural language processing to realise data-driven solutions</p><p></p><p>We do projects internally and externally. For example, we have delivered AI-enabled projects from banks to hospital trusts, as well as building products internally to supercharge how our client facing teams do their work.</p><p></p><p><b>The Role &amp; Responsibilities</b></p><p></p><p>Software Engineers are responsible for building out the AI team&
39;s products and assets, you will be:</p><ul><li><p>Designing, implementing, and reviewing high quality, maintainable code</p></li><li><p>Training and coaching other members of the AI team about the tools and practices we use</p></li><li><p>Working with Product Managers to understand and execute requirements</p></li></ul><p></p><p><b>Experience</b></p><p></p><p>We&
39;re looking for people who have experience across:</p><ul><li><p>Working in a strongly typed language (we use Go to write backend code)</p></li><li><p>Software testing (unit, integration, behavioural)</p></li><li><p>Working with a scripting language such as Python</p></li><li><p>Version control (we use Git on Azure DevOps)</p></li><li><p>Agile delivery</p></li><li><p>Container Technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)</p></li><li><p>Working with Continuous Integration / Delivery pipelines</p></li></ul><p></p><p><b>Desirable:</b></p><ul><li><p>Experience with UI frameworks (such as React)</p></li><li><p>Experience working with SQL databases (such as Postgres)</p></li><li><p>Experience working with Elasticsearch</p></li><li><p>Experience working with distributed compute frameworks such as Apache Spark or Apache Beam</p></li></ul><p>Essential Qualities</p><p>You love finding defects.  You love finding the esoteric conjunction of circumstances that cause them to happen, and you take great pride in your ability to break software in interesting ways.</p><p></p><p>You communicate well, both in writing and in person.  You are as comfortable presenting a showcase to twenty people as you are paired up with an engineer.</p><p></p><p>You strive for quality at pace, and you take pride in finding the sweet spot between the two.</p><p></p><p>You are a self-starter, capable of making decisions with imperfect information, who errs on the side of using your judgement to maintain forward movement.</p><p></p><p>You are a team player, you enjoy sharing knowledge and you are happy to learn new things.</p><br /><p><strong>Not the role for you?</strong><br />Did you know PwC offer <a href="http://pwctrk.co.uk/tp/rj6_YRe1p-J.K" rel="no-follow">flexible contract</a> arrangements as well as <a href="http://pwctrk.co.uk/tp/rj6_uo6An.J.K" rel="no-follow">contingent work</a> (ie temporary or day rate contracting)?<br /><br /><strong>The skills we look for in future employees</strong><br />All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, &lsquo;The PwC Professional&rsquo; and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.</p>Learn more here: <a href="https://www.pwc.com/uk/careers/experienced/apply" rel="no-follow">www.pwc.com/uk/careers/experienced/apply</a><br /><br /><p><strong>The Deal</strong><br />We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have &lsquo;The Deal&rsquo;.</p><p>Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition: <a href="https://www.pwc.co.uk/careers/about-us/the-new-deal.html" rel="no-follow">https://www.pwc.co.uk/careers/about-us/the-new-deal.html</a><br /><br /><strong>Diversity</strong><br />Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.</p><p>We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.</p><p><a href="https://www.pwc.com/uk/diversity" rel="no-follow">www.pwc.com/uk/diversity</a></p><img src="https://www.applytracking.com/tp/rj6-0HQ6F-J-K" rel="no-follow" />