The Role
At Nielsen, we are passionate about our work to power a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever it’s consumed. Together, we are proudly rooted in our deep legacy as we stand at the forefront of the media revolution. When you join Nielsen, you will join a dynamic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and the ambition to make an impact together. We champion you, because when you succeed, we do too. We enable your best to power our future.
About the role
- As a Senior Software Engineer, working with the team responsible for processing data collected from several devices in the field, developing ETL applications that extract the relevant data and correlate/match it against reference data to identify the content and source the devices were exposed to for Television Audience Measurement.
- Your primary objective is to ensure project goals are achieved and are aligned with business objectives. You will also work closely with your Scrum team and program team to test, develop, refine and implement quality software in production via standard Agile methodologies.
Responsibilities
- Design, code, and test iteratively to support microservices and container based applications on AWS.
- Plan, develop, execute and maintain automated unit, functional test cases; develop modular, robust, and maintainable automation scripts to integrate with the CICD process.
- Leverage modern design patterns and architectural principles to build platform reusable code and components that can be used across projects and teams
- Must have strong analytical and technical skills with passion to deep dive on data in troubleshooting, devise techniques for problem resolution.
- Support product owner in defining future stories and tech lead in defining technical requirements for new initiatives
- Promote a culture of best practices with peer code reviews and extreme ownership for continuous incremental delivery.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to align development objectives with broader business goals
- Support any Production issues that may arise and collaborate with the Product owners to prioritize any enhancements to fix failure modes
Key Skills
- Must have very good knowledge of microservices and event based architectural principles
- Must have the ability to provide solutions utilizing best practices for resilience, scalability, cloud optimization and security
- 5+ years of experience in any of the following languages: Java, Go, Python
- Experience developing cloud-hosted (AWS) containerized applications and services on Kubernetes
- Hands-on experience with the following AWS Components: EKS, EMR HBase, EC2, S3 storage, Lambda, Relational Database Service, Simple Notification Service (SNS), Elasticache, etc.
- Demonstrates knowledge of CI/CD processes, testing frameworks, practices and tools (GitLab, jUnit, Terraform, JFrog, Jacoco, SonarQube, etc.)
- Knowledge of Infrastructure creation in the Cloud using Terraform or Cloudformation
- Familiarity of Linux platforms with knowledge of shell scripting.
- Sound problem-solving skills with the ability to process complex information, articulate and present it clearly
- Passion to research and conduct POCs to optimize solution
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Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
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The Company
What We Do
Nielsen shapes the world’s media and content as a global leader in audience insights, data and analytics. Through our understanding of people and their behaviors across all channels and platforms, we empower our clients with independent and actionable intelligence so they can connect and engage with their audiences—now and into the future.
An S&P 500 company, Nielsen (NYSE: NLSN) operates around the world in more than 55 countries.
