Data Factories - Senior Backend Developer

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.
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. You will mentor and help other team members to deliver the scrum team objectives.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable, reliable, cost-effective solutions for both the Cloud and on-premises.
• Understanding of current technologies and experience with legacy technologies.
• Understands when the architecture needs to change to meet requirements. Understand system test principles and best practices.
• Create reusable code and components for audio software development, to be utilized across various projects.
• Provide cloud integration development support to various project teams.
• Rapidly identify and resolve technical incidents as they emerge
• Collaborate effectively with Data Science to understand, translate, and integrate methodologies into engineering build pipelines.

Key Skills (Domain Expertise)

• 4-12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Must have strong analytical and technical skills in troubleshooting and problem resolution

Technical Skills

• 4-8 years of hands-on software development with a bachelor’s degree.
• Experience in software development using programming languages & tools/services: .Net Programming (c#, Basic, asp.net), Java, Python, JavaScript and strong in SQL.
• Experience with orchestration tools: Apache Airflow or similar tools
• Strong knowledge on Windows, Unix/Linux OS, commands, shell scripting, python
• Strong experience in Java/J2EE, Spring boot/cloud frameworks
• Agile scrum experience in application development experience is required.
• Strong knowledge in SQLServer and/or Oracle
• Deployment and automation: CI/CD Pipeline
• Knowledge in Gitlab /Bitbucket .
• AWS Programming Certification is a plus.
• Ability to quickly learn vendor owned Computer Aided Telephone Interviewing (CATI).

Mindset and Attributes

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and technical skills in troubleshooting and problem resolution

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