Job Description

Springer Nature opens the doors to discovery for researchers, educators, clinicians and other professionals. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals, platforms and technology solutions reach millions of people. For over 175 years our brands and imprints have been a trusted source of knowledge to these communities and today, more than ever, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood and used by our communities - enabling them to improve outcomes, make progress, and benefit the generations that follow.

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We are on a quest to find a Senior Software Developer to join our team and make the most of working in a fun environment while learning from the best.

About Springer Nature

Springer Nature Technology and Publishing Solutions, is the technology and publishing solutions arm of the Springer Nature Group. We leverage our insight in the publishing domain and acquire, produce and deliver content across media and markets using our Technology and Publishing Solutions. With a focus on technology driven solutions and deep insight in the publishing domain, Springer Nature Technology and Publishing Solutions offers a range of services that help our Group brand acquire, produce and deliver content in the most efficient ways possible. We are ISO 9001 certified, driven by over 1000 professionals in Technology, Research & Analysis and Marketing shared services.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment on the basis of merit alone, without attention to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status

About The Unit

The Data & Analytics Solutions - IT team is responsible for providing the necessary technical and domain expertise required to create and maintain the databases and shared services for our end customers. Our flagship products namely SpringerMaterials, Experiments, ADIS Insight & Pearl are built by a team of developers, QAs, BAs, UI & UX experts and SMEs, who collaborate to ensure easy accessibility of relevant data. We follow a problem statement and user experience driven approach to ensure the right data is available in the simplistic way for the scientific community.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for a Sr Software engineer who is motivated to take a critical role in the creation of industry-strength solutions, that unleash the value of data, innovating in how we transform the traditional document perspective into a world of knowledge.

As a Sr Software Engineer you will be responsible for ensuring continuous flow of data between data sources, you will be developing, testing and deploying data pipelines into the production environment.

You will be working in close partnership with data analysts, data scientists and data engineers, as well as other colleagues from Springer Nature and our technology partners including Google. You will have opportunities to work with the latest data and analytics technologies including graph databases, Google BigQuery as well as previewing new technologies from Google and other partners.

Years of Experience: 6 to 9 years

Place of Work: 1201/1301, Building No. 5 (R3), Gerra Commercezone, Kharadi, Pune (Working in Hybrid Model)

Educational Qualification: B.Sc., BCA, BCS, B.E., B.Tech, M.Tech, MCA and M.Sc.

The job is based in Pune where you will as part of Springer Nature\'s digital product development team. You\'ll be part of our big community of developers located in Germany, UK and India, to name a few.

Role requirements:

Must to have Skills:

- Skills: Spring, Spring-batch, Java, J2EE, Docker, Stardog DB, Sparql, AWS, Python.

- Experience using a relational database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.

- Tools and processes: Halfpipe, Git, CI/CD.

- Strong working knowledge of SQL

- Excellent problem solving capabilities

- Well organised and accurate with good time management]

- Proficient in English communication, both written and verbal.

Good to Have Skills

- Prior experience with schema designing data modelling .

- Familiarity with machine learning (AI/ML)

- University degree with a strong analytical/quantitative background or equivalent experience (e.g. Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Econometrics, Physics, Computer Science etc.)

Role responsibilities will include:

- Build Data pipelines for extraction/loading/transforming data between various data sources at scale in different formats.

- Work proactively and independently with stakeholders, partners and other product managers to create, own and execute data engineering projects that blend commercial, technical and customer needs.

- Increase the adoption of data engineering best practices, standardise data engineering tools across the organisation, improve data management and reporting, and make data led insight accessible to the business

- Work closely with Data Scientists /Analysts to understand the requirements and develop the data solutions in line with the business and user requirements.

- Automate/orchestrate various templatable solutions to ensure continuous delivery.

- Maintain the current cloud infrastructure and help onboard the new applications.

At Springer Nature, we value the diversity of our teams and work to build an inclusive culture, where people are treated fairly and can bring their differences to work and thrive. We empower our colleagues and value their diverse perspectives as we strive to attract, nurture and develop the very best talent.

Springer Nature was awarded Diversity Team of the Year at the 2022 British Diversity Awards. Find out more about our DEI work .

If you have any access needs related to disability, neurodivergence or a chronic condition, please contact us so we can make all necessary accommodation.

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