Principal Data Engineer (Data Pipeline, Python, AWS)

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.

Nielsen is seeking an organized, detail oriented, team player, to join us in the role of an Architect. Nielsens Audience Measurement Engineering platforms support the measurement of television viewing in more than 30 countries around the world. Ideal candidate will have exceptional skills in programming, testing, debugging and problem solving as well as effective communication and writing skills.

Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, software engineering or a related field (foreign equivalent degree acceptable) with 9+ years of experience in: software development technology.
• 5 years of experience with/in: Git; SQL; Hadoop; Spark in developing distributed processing applications and building applications with immutable infrastructure in the AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud with automation technologies like Terraform, Ansible or CloudFormation;
• 3 years of experience with/in: Spark; Python, Test Automation, CICD Pipeline Development
• Experience with DBT Core, Airbyte, Airflow, and Docker

Job Description:

• Design, develop, test and support highly complex software solutions for data driven applications by providing necessary design and technical expertise.
• Understand the big picture in an End-to-End environment and understand upstream and downstream requirements. Adopt standard platform tools for source code management, CICD, Orchestration, monitoring and alerting (gitlab, airflow, jenkins etc).
• Work on AWS cloud infrastructure in a DevOps capacity.
• Participate in technical planning & requirements gathering phases including discovery, design, code, test and documentation. Lead development best practices to guarantee the quality and sustainability of software deliverables.
• Support Testing and UAT phases and participate in Deployment.
• As a Staff Software Engineer on Nielsen Engineering’s OpIntel Team, you will be part of a
• Collaborative group of skilled Software Engineers who deal with a wide variety of Nielsen data from our TV, Digital/Internet, and Radio monitoring business. You will be working closely with offshore team members - mentoring and reviewing their code/design to encourage them to grow in a positive direction through setting a positive example for every step in the software development lifecycle process.
• You will be designing and building complex data-driven applications and processes that help to ensure that Nielsen TV, Digital/Internet, and Radio measuring systems are generating accurate data.

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