Principal Software Engineer

We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

About the job

Kantar, the leading provider of media analytics and marketing accountability solutions for brand marketers, is eager to engage with an experienced, creative, hardworking, and self-motivated Principal Software Engineer (.NET Developer)!

Kantar delivers comprehensive digital solutions to help advertisers, agencies and publishers increase marketing effectiveness and drive brand growth. Integrated behavioral and attitudinal solutions help marketers identify, understand and engage consumers, plan and optimize media and increase total brand performance. Kantar operates within North America and is part of WPP’s data investment management division.

Job Goals

• Support, develop, and maintain applications using Microsoft .Net/C# and supporting technologies

• Work closely with the Quality Assurance group to assist in developing test plans and scripts or even perform testing on applications

• Assess and troubleshoot reported application defects and issues while identifying false positives and operator errors

• Closely Follow standard agile development best practices and standards

• Provide application-to-database support for DBAs and collaborate on optimizing application query performance                                               

• Work closely and diligently with the product development team to resolve bugs and defects relating to our applications

• Follow, support and optimize the Kantar Ignite processes and supporting applications

• Provide guidance and estimates for project development efforts

• Work directly with application stakeholders to determine requirement and project scopes

• Help maintain documentation for development architecture, process flow and data sources

Ideal Skills & Capabilities

• Expertise in Microsoft Technologies (15+ years of hands-on): Proficient in C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, and advanced SQL, with strong capability to design, develop and optimise solutions across these platforms.

• Advanced Web and Data Integration: Hands-on experience building and securing ASP.NET web applications, including in-depth knowledge of web security best practices, and skilled in using SOAP/REST web services with XML and JSON for data exchange.

• Complex Data Handling: Demonstrated ability to efficiently parse, transfer, and process large files and datasets, leveraging SQL and ETL techniques for robust data management and analytics.

• Modern Software Development Practices: Familiarity with multi-threaded application design, the Task Parallel Library, asynchronous programming, as well as object-oriented principles and agile development methodologies.

• Client-Side and Database Development: Strong skills in JavaScript, JQuery, and constructing complex queries and stored procedures for Microsoft SQL, ensuring high-performance, responsive, and scalable application solutions.

• Flexible to work in EST Time Zone.

• Proven ability to independently drive projects forward, showing initiative in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

• Expert understanding of data transfer protocols and methodologies, enabling seamless integration and data flow across systems.

• Flexible and adaptable approach, effectively managing a varied workload and prioritising tasks to meet deadlines.

• Strong logical thinking and problem-solving skills, able to plan new initiatives and troubleshoot complex challenges with confidence.

• Demonstrates ownership and accountability for application platforms, ensuring continuous improvement and high standards of delivery.

What’s in it for you

On top of all your normal benefits like holiday, meal cards and life assurance, we also offer:

• Five days of Life Leave per year; for those days when life just…gets in the way.

• Birthday leave – one extra day of holiday taken on the nearest workday to your birthday

• Two days a year to give back and volunteer with an organisation of your choice.

• Enhanced primary and secondary carer leave for however you choose to grow your family.

• The chance to hit the beach on your lunch break (yes, we have somewhere you can store your surfboard!)

Please be aware, the majority of our roles are hybrid, working three days a week in our office.

We’re not able to offer visa sponsorship or help with relocation support for this role. Please make sure you’ve got the right to work in the country where this role is located before applying.

What part of Kantar might I be joining?

You’ll be joining our Insights division, the masters of using data to resolve challenges. They help brands define what they should stand for, how to reinvent and renew their offer, how to better reach audiences, and how to win with consumers. By blending human insights expertise with the latest technology advances, Insights make sure we can deliver innovative information to brands everywhere.

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And if we combine the expertise of our people with the latest AI technology, we can really help brands discover some amazing insights.  

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority, and we support our colleagues to work in a way works for them. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

Privacy and Legal Statement

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

PRIVACY DISCLOSURE: Please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by The Kantar Group Limited (“Kantar”). Your details will be kept on our Internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment, which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager.

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At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver. 

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us. 

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration. 

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes. 

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.