Localisation Engineer in Leeds, UK Job

Senior Engineer - Leeds
our client Group is a world-leading International language management group supplying translation, interpreting and language technology services to a wide range of global clients across 77 countries including household-name multinationals and public-sector bodies.  With a growth of 40% every year for the past 3 years, we are one of the Sunday Times International Track 100 private companies.
Due to the expansion of our international operations we require a Senior Engineer to join our Leeds office.
The Engineering team provides a high quality service for the internal Operations team to ensure content is accurately manipulated prior to being presented to translation teams.  Once translated the process is then reversed with comprehensive QA checks being carried out. The team operates globally and is based in Leeds, New York and Beijing.
The role includes the development and implementation of process workflows,  working with the clients, Operations team and other internal resources to devise the most appropriate content processing workflow for that client. Prioritisation of own workload as well as those of junior members of the team will be required. This role is an escalation point within the team for more complex issues and as such the ability to coach and train others is required.
The ideal candidate is someone with extensive technical experience in the localisation industry who has a desire to work in a challenging role backed up by an experienced and friendly team.
Essential
• Proven experience of CATTranslation Memory packages such as Trados
• Knowledge of translation workflows involved in translating common filetypes
• Good knowledge of HTML/XML
• Knowledge of character encoding
• Working knowledge of Regular Expressions
• Strong analytical skills and a methodical approach to troubleshooting
• Ability to work on own initiative

Desirable
• Basic Scripting (PHP, JS) knowledge
• Strong desire to learn and develop
• Knowledge  of Xpath queries
• Experience of a programming language
• Team leadership experience