Visual Analytics / Unity Virtual Reality Developer

Job description

Visual Analytics and Unity Virtual Reality Developer

Locations: London, Manchester, Edinburgh (must be willing to be based at and travel to client sites throughout the UK)

We have roles available across the following Accenture career levels depending on skills and experience:

Senior Analyst: from £30,000

Specialist / Team Lead: from £37,000

Associate Manager: from £42,000

Job Type: Permanent

Reference: 00340388

Welcome to Accenture, one of the world's leading providers of management consultancy and IT services. Are you ready to put yourself to the test on business' biggest challenges? Do you want to work in an environment where the bar is raised every day and high performance is just the entry ticket? Think you're up to it?

What is Visual Analytics?

Visual Analytics enables users to maximise the value of their data to solve business problems by creating analytics applications that provide insight, drill down, root cause analysis and next best action without reports, spreadsheets and meetings.

Visual Analytics employs powerful capabilities to find data-driven answers with User Experience (UX) and wide adoption as core design concepts.

Virtual Reality and Visual Analytics

Visual Analytics has been exploring alternative mediums to present information to a user or user groups. The current generation of VR solutions has almost mitigated the majority of issues with previous generations of VR headsets including latency, low resolution, weight of headset and cost. In 2016 the consumer market will have the choice of buying from over 6 major manufacturers and eco-systems.

Key features of the role

If you join Accenture you can turn great ideas into reality for some of the world's most dynamic companies. Accenture is an ever-evolving global organisation, which will offer you the opportunity to bring your digital skills to the edge of discovery and the forefront of innovation on an international scale. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an inspiring environment where stimulating and remarkable work is part of daily life.

In today's fast-paced digitally driven business, information and analytics are critical as an enabler to gaining a competitive advantage and improve performance. Our Visual Analytics Delivery practice focuses on helping clients tackle the full breadth of their business challenges. We integrate best in class technology though our extensive network of affiliated companies to deliver solutions ranging from identifying the optimal location for wind farms to recognising product gaps to fulfil consumer demand.

Demand for our Visualisation and Analytics services are growing rapidly, and we continue to look for dynamic and innovative individuals to work with us in Visual Analytics.

Key Responsibilities

Roles in Visual Analytics adapt to the current business demands and trends and continually evolve. If we were to summarise our current activities:

• Raise awareness of the power of visualisation directly with our clients, at conferences and publishing our points of view

• Developing new capabilities for our clients using Virtual Reality and Visual Analytics

• Creating device agnostic applications that solve specific business problems for desk bound users to mobile field workers.

• Enriching existing customer insights with new external sources such as twitter, Facebook, amazon, google+, weather data, Apple App Store, etc.

• Creating digital analytics strategies, which enable business users to take advantage of advanced analytics models through simple to use touch interfaces and ‘drag and watch' what if analytics solutions

• Create immersive enterprise applications using Unity or Unreal engines.

• Innovate with open source technologies such as D3 and HTML 5 to create truly unique solutions

• 100% Agile delivery with the focus on time to value for our clients before industrialising solutions

• Develop 3D models and Graphics

• Developing User Interfaces (UIs) and User Experiences (Ux) that support wide adoption of our solutions

• Create and deliver end to end solutions using new data sources from advancements in sensor and location technologies e.g. telematics, GPS, Geospatial, Pressure Senors, Health Trackers, Internet of Things (IoT)

What's in it for you?

If you're looking for a challenging IT career working in a vibrant environment with access to training, and expertise, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with the latest software and leading-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to build new technical skills on the job.

Desired profile

What we're looking for

Technical Skills:

We are most interested in individuals with experience with some of the following toolsets and digital platforms:

• Qlikview & QlikSense, Tableau, TibcoSpotfire, Birst, Pentaho, JasperSoft, Board, SAS Visual Analytics, SAP Lumira, D3, HTML 5, JavaScript

• Web Analytics : Adobe Omniture, Google Analytics

• Social Media Analytics : Clarabridge, Radion6, DataSift

• Advanced Analytics : Revolution R, Alteryx

• ETL and Data Cleanse and Integration : Trillium, Talend

• Database Management and Big Data solutions : Amazon Web Services (RedShift/ Kinesis), Cloudera, Hadoop, Spark, Google BigQuery

Unity Virtual Reality Developer:

· Unity3D, C# / .NET, solid 3d maths / geometry

· UnrealEngine

· VR experience (e.g. Oculus Rift), 3D UX design, C++, Git

· Specific experience with Editor extensions, Shader programming, Mecanim, Profiling tools & performance optimisation and networking & multiplayer in Unity3D

Professional Requirements:

• Proven ability to apply analytical and creative thought

• Proven ability to deliver high profile activities to tight timescales

• Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment

• Experience delivering projects within an agile environment

• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

Flexibility and mobility is required to deliver this role as there may be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first class services we are known for.

Closing date for applications: 31 st August 2016. Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With more than 290,000 people serving clients in over 120 countries, the company generated net revenues of US $28.6 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2013. http://www.accenture.com/home.asp .

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity