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We are looking for a Python Developer with strong GIS experience to join our growing team. As a part of the client solutions team at Verisk Maplecroft you will be a part of the team charged with using technology to create, collate and deliver data analytics and intelligence to our clients in a geospatial context. We are primarily a Python/Django house with an Angular front end. We recently moved to AWS for our cloud operations, and our approach to technology and development is constantly evolving. We are building a team that is able to utilize cloud computing to develop new workflows, pipelines, features and tools that give our clients the information they need to make the right decisions to create a more sustainable and resilient world. 

Geospatial data forms are a significant component of the data structures used within Verisk Maplecroft, and with an increasing availability of geospatial data in the modern era, exploiting that data to provide risk insights to our client’s is a primary objective of the client solutions team and this role.

About the Day to Day Responsibilities of the Role

• Working in an agile team and assisting in requirements gathering, refinement, and delivery of continual improvements to our mapping solutions and GIS data pipelines
• Supporting and working with contractors to ensure effective collaborative effort and consistency of approach
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with team members on technical projects
• Deliver high-quality, maintainable well-tested code that meets user requirements
• Peer review other developers' work in a thorough and constructive manner
• Look for and drive opportunities to improve code quality, development processes, and team satisfaction
• Provide mentoring to more junior members of the team

About You and How You Can Excel in This Role

• Strong python development experience, able to follow PEP8 standards
• Experience of developing GIS pipelines in python, leveraging open source libraries such as Fiona, Shapely, Numpy and Rasterio
• Ability to communicate effectively, explaining and rationalizing design decisions to a cross functional team.
• Experience in object-oriented programming concepts, unit & integration testing, data and relational databases, technical database design, web architecture and application servers. 
• Understanding and experience of geoservers, spatial projections, raster and vector manipulation within python and usage of GDAL
• Experience with AWS and data management tools, including data lake, data warehouse ETL, SQL based storage and PostgreSQL.
• Ability to design and implement data pipelines and data-related solutions, ideally within a cloud environment
• Strong ability to document development including database design, application design and ongoing documentation of changes and modifications.  
• Deep understanding about performance and scalability implications in the development process
• Working knowledge of all phases of the software development life cycle.  Including basic understanding of identify and authentication management concepts and concepts related to security, such as secret management and key management.    
• Ability to review code written by others and provide feedback and recommendations to follow coding guideline. 
• Experience working with Business Intelligence teams, Developers, Data Scientists, Analysts and PM’s to deliver well-architected and scalable Big Data & Analytics eco-system
• Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt to continuously changing technology.   
• Must be able to identify multiple solutions to a given problem and find a rational, fact-based approach for choosing the best one. 

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In 2022, Verisk received Great Place to Work® Certification for our outstanding workplace culture for the sixth year in a row and second-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. We’re also one of the 38 companies on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best Workplaces™ list.

For over fifty years and through innovation, interpretation, and professional insight, Verisk has replaced uncertainty with precision to unlock opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable impact. From our historic roots in risk assessment, we’ve grown to provide analytic insights that help transform industries focused on some of the world’s most critical areas. Today, the insurance industry relies on Verisk to be, and to make the world, more productive, resilient, and sustainable.

Verisk works in collaboration with our customers and at the intersection of people, data, and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling, and interpretation, we deliver immediate and sustained value to our customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision, and scale. We’re 9,000 people strong, committed to translating big data into big ideas. We help others see new possibilities and empower certainty into big decisions that impact individuals and societies. And we relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation to help move our customers, and the world, toward better tomorrows.

Everyone at Verisk—from our chief executive officer to our newest employee—is guided by The Verisk Way, to Be Remarkable, Add Value, and Innovate.
• Be Remarkable by doing something better each day in service to our customers and each other
• Add Value by delivering immediate and sustained results that drive positive outcomes
• Innovate by redefining what’s possible, embracing challenges, and pushing boundaries

Verisk Businesses

Underwriting Solutions — provides underwriting and rating solutions for auto and property, general liability, and excess and surplus to assess and price risk with speed and precision

Claims Solutions — supports end-to-end claims handling with analytic and automation tools that streamline workflow, improve claims management, and support better customer experiences

Property Estimating Solutions — offers property estimation software and tools for professionals in estimating all phases of building and repair to make day-to-day workflows the most efficient

Extreme Event Solutions — provides risk modeling solutions to help individuals, businesses, and society become more resilient to extreme events.

Specialty Business Solutions — provides an integrated suite of software for full end-to-end management of insurance and reinsurance business, helping companies manage their businesses through efficiency, flexibility, and data governance

Marketing Solutions — delivers data and insights to improve the reach, timing, relevance, and compliance of every consumer engagement

Life Insurance Solutions – offers end-to-end, data insight-driven core capabilities for carriers, distribution, and direct customers across the entire policy lifecycle of life and annuities for both individual and group.

Verisk Maplecroft — provides intelligence on sustainability, resilience, and ESG, helping people, business, and societies become stronger

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