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In the middle of the energy transition, businesses and governments are faced with significant challenges. But the pace and scale of change mean every decision is made under mounting pressure. Now, more than ever, companies need reliable data, analytics and actionable insight.
Wood Mackenzie is the leading global provider of data and analytics solutions for the renewables, energy and natural resources sectors. Wood Mackenzie’s services include data, analytics, insight, events and consultancy. A trusted partner for over 50 years, Wood Mackenzie’s team has over 2,300 experts across more than 30 global locations who cover the entire supply chain.
Company description
Wood Mackenzie empowers our customers to overcome the world’s toughest challenges and accelerate the world’s transition to a more sustainable energy future.
For 50 years our global research, analytics, and consultancy business, has provided the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision-making.
Work alongside some of the most inspiring people in Energy, Natural Resources and Technology, and influence decisions that could change the world. Are you ready to transform the way we power our planet?
Job description
This opportunity is best suited for candidates in their penultimate/ final year of study.
In the Power & Renewables Engineering teams we work closely with a variety of other functions and teams throughout Wood Mackenzie to build the products and processes that are at the forefront of the energy transition.
We work on interesting, challenging, and important problems covering a variety of areas such as solar power, wind power, green hydrogen, carbon capture, real-time Power markets, and renewables policy. Every line of code you write is helping to change the way we power the planet.
About the role
This role will allow you the opportunity to explore our technology stack, whether your interests are more frontend leaning, whether you’re more of a backend data engineer, or whether ultimately you want to be a full-stack engineer. You’ll be paired with a Senior Engineer who’ll help guide you through their team’s technical problems while also being supported and collaborating with the wider team.
As an intern you’ll be able to collaborate with our Product team to understand the problems our customers face and help design solutions to solve them. Write maintainable, testable, and optimised code, as well as break work down into small iterations and work with the wider team to solve them.
Our Tech Stack
We use a wide variety of tools and technologies across our products. Here’s an idea of what you might encounter and be exposed to:
- AWS, using Lambda, ECS and Kubernetes - to deploy our services
- CDK and CloudFormation - for infrastructure configuration
- TypeScript, React, Redux, Apollo and ReactiveX - To develop our web products
- We have a shared component library implementing our design system
- NodeJS and NestJS - to implement GraphQL and RESTful APIs
- Python, Glue and Step Functions – to run our ETL data pipelines
- DynamoDB, Postgres, Elasticsearch and S3 - for data storage
About you
Requirements
Studying towards a Bachelor’s degree or professional qualification with a computing, engineering or data focus.
Applicants must have the legal Right to Work in the country this role is based in. We are unable to sponsor employment visas at this time.
To be successful in this role, we are looking for
- Strong collaboration skills
- The ability to creatively problem-solve
- An analytical mind and eye for detail
- Great written and verbal communication
- Willingness to learn about our business from the ground up
- Some knowledge of, and an interest in, our tech stack
- Some knowledge of version control: Git
What's in it for you
At Wood Mackenzie, you will have opportunities to engage in meaningful work and collaboration with international stakeholders, creating a positive and lasting impact, and find the support, coaching, and training you need to kick-start your career. In this role, you will get the following:
- Valuable work experience and a comprehensive insight into the work of a leading research organisation
- The opportunity to contribute to a research project, enabling you to put theory into practice
- The encouragement to share your ideas
- The chance to learn new skills that will be valuable to you in your future career
We are committed to supporting our people to Thrive. We value different perspectives and aspire to create an inclusive environment that encourages diversity and fosters a sense of belonging. WoodMackers have regular opportunities to get involved in our Wellness, Diversity and Inclusion, Community Engagement, and Sustainability initiatives such as our partnership with Let’s Share the Sun.
Additional information
- We are a hybrid working company and the successful applicant will be expected to be physically present in the office at least 2 days per week to foster and contribute to a collaborative environment, but this may be subject to change in the future
- Due to the global nature of the team, a degree of flexible working will be required to accommodate different time zones
Wood Mackenzie Values
- Inclusive – we succeed together
- Trusting – we choose to trust each other
- Customer committed – we put customers at the heart of our decisions
- Future Focused – we accelerate change
- Curious – we turn knowledge into action
Equal opportunities
We are an equal opportunities employer. This means we are committed to recruiting the best people regardless of their race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. You can find out more about your rights under the law at www.eeoc.gov
If you are applying for a role and have a physical or mental disability, we will support you with your application or through the hiring process.
