Senior Engineering Manager

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

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our global SaaS platform, directly influencing how leading brands understand and connect with people worldwide. Your leadership will ensure the successful delivery of robust, scalable web applications used by clients across the globe, making a significant impact on both our technology landscape and our customers’ success.

In this role, you will be responsible for guiding a distributed engineering team through all stages of product development, from concept to launch. Working in close partnership with Product Management, Data Science, and UX teams, you’ll ensure technical requirements align with strategic business objectives. Your expertise will drive the seamless integration of machine learning models and the adoption of best practices in cloud-native development!

You will roll up to a Director of Engineering.

Job Goals

• Lead the design and delivery of a robust, scalable SaaS platform that meets global client needs.

• Build and nurture a high-performing, distributed engineering team, promoting collaboration and accountability.

• Align technical requirements with business objectives by partnering closely with Product Management, Data Science, and UX teams.

• Implement cloud-native development best practices—especially leveraging AWS, CI/CD pipelines, and modern web technologies (React for UI, Golang & Node for backend).

• Integrate machine learning models into production workflows, ensuring reliability and scalability.

Ideal Skills & Capabilities

• Demonstrated expertise in designing and delivering enterprise-scale SaaS solutions, with a strong track record of leading teams through all stages of product development.

• Deep technical proficiency in Golang-based backend engineering, and hands-on experience with React.js for modern web applications.

• Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms—preferably AWS—and practical experience with cloud-native development, including microservices, APIs, CI/CD pipelines (Circle CI, Argo CD), and containerization using Docker and Kubernetes (Terraform, Kops). Knowledge on SRE and tools like Prometheus and Graylog is beneficial.

• Proven ability to lead and scale distributed engineering teams, fostering collaboration and accountability across global environments.

• Experience integrating machine learning models into production systems and partnering effectively with product and data science teams to achieve strategic business goals.

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.

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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.

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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.