GreenTech Systems Architect

GreenTech Systems Architect

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Industry: Nature / Biodiversity Conservation
Location: Cambridge – 2 days per MONTH
Salary: £40,000 – £50,000 + 12% pension and life insurance.

Global efforts and commitments to protecting nature are increasing, from the 30 by 30 initiative laid out at Biodiversity COP15, to government consortiums implementing strategies.

How are we going to deliver on the promises and commitments made?

A global conservation organisation is looking for a Systems Architect, to continue the evolution of their data services and capabilities, looking to offer deeper insights and predictive modelling that their science teams can utilise to provide greater depth on their biodiversity reporting. 

Their tech team has doubled in size over the last 2 years and they can offer excellent training and learning opportunities with lots of support with resources, online courses, textbooks, and conference tickets – you name it!

They’d also love someone who can mentor the senior team members, so they feel their skills are advancing. Giving them the confidence to take on more without becoming overburdened.

Data is a huge part of what they do. They manage a number of critical databases that are ever-growing, fed by research teams and partner organisations across the planet. They’re seeing growth in interest for everything they deliver.

So, experience designing databases and data pipelines, along with a deep understanding of integrating 3rd party data and APIs from multiple sources into the backend of complex systems would be great, as they collaborate heavily with entities worldwide, including governments.

You might be an engineering manager or technical architect, a senior dev or tester that happens to have a broader understanding than just your discipline and wants a green-tech challenge.

You don’t need to have done everything, for example, they have people with a firm grasp of cloud technologies and DevOps, but an understanding of those and security will enable you to settle in quicker.

You’ll have time and support while settling in but will quickly be working on complex problems, while hopefully showing others how to handle critical technical tasks and raising the level of the people around you.

They need more advanced data services and data science, to offer insights and provide historical context, not just a snapshot of a given situation. And all current data needs to be safely ported across to the new solution, it’ll be hosted in the cloud and integrated into dozens of partners’ systems.

Your specific background isn’t the critical thing, but coming from an environmental sciences or conservation background would help.

They’re open-minded but use a lot of Ruby on Rails, GIS and Geospatial technology and are increasingly using Python and Azure, building data pipelines and APIs.  So, if applying tech to improve biodiversity and *quite literally* save our planet sounds like your bag. Hit apply or say hello.