Lead Software Engineer

At Nielsen, we believe that career growth is a partnership. You ultimately own, fuel and set the journey. By joining our team of nearly 14,000 associates, you will become part of a community that will help you to succeed. We champion you because when you succeed, we do too. Embark on a new initiative, explore a fresh approach, and take license to think big, so we can all continuously improve. We enable your best to power our future. About this role Nielsen's mission is to help marketers and media companies measure and improve advertising performance by accurately reporting on what consumers watch, see, or hear (whether on television, the web, in print, or on the radio).As a Technical lead, you will be responsible for building the next generation tools to help Nielsen's audience measurement. The candidate will collaborate with Product, Dsci & operations teams to ensure that the software is built per specifications and with the highest quality.The candidate must be a self starter with a desire to understand our unique business and the associated technical challenges. This requires a self-managed strong technical candidate that can take special projects from inception to completion.

Responsibilities
• Build, maintain and extend Big Data Pipeline processing large datasets pertaining to Audience Measurement;
• Drive technical discussions and establish architectural vision for the processing pipelines using industry best practices.
• Work with Product Owners to implement strategic product initiatives in the processing platforms. Propose technology ideas to optimize performance, cost and service quality.
• Lead Agile scrum related rituals and participate in grooming sessions to effectively translate business requirements to Agile stories.
• Drive DevOps and SecOps practices for continuous incremental delivery and maintain business critical production environments.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with Architects, Managers and Leaders proposing improvements, providing timely status updates on critical projects.
• Conduct code and design reviews, provide effective feedback based on best practices, past experience.
• Drive automation effort in the areas of Cloud resource provisioning, Application testing, deployment and monitoring.
• Partner with other teams to share learnings and code to accelerate development and team growth.

Requirements
• Extensive programming experience and desire to write review code 70% of the time.
• 7-10 years experience of working with Scala, Java with appreciation for Object Oriented and functional programming paradigms. Familiarity with Python is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with Airflow, Spark, Spark SQL, Hive and Hadoop.
• Experience with building CICD pipelines in GitLab for applications running on AWS EMR & Kubernetes (EKS)
• Deep understanding of AWS services and hands-on experience of using Terraform or Cloudformation templates.
• Proven track record of developing large scale enterprise BigData systems using Agile, TDD & DevOps methodologies.
• Experience using monitoring and alert orchestration tools such as DataDog, NewRelic, OpsGenie/PagerDuty (or equivalent) SaaS tools.
• Ability to debug, performance tune large scale BigData applications.
• Proven track record on delivering enterprise software solutions using Agile scrum methodology. As the arbiter of truth, Nielsen Global Media fuels the media industry with unbiased, reliable data about what people watch and listen to. To discover what's true, we measure across all channels and platforms⁠—from podcasts to streaming TV to social media. And when companies and advertisers are armed with the truth, they have a deeper understanding of their audiences and can accelerate growth. Do you want to move the industry forward with Nielsen? Our people are the driving force. Your thoughts, ideas and expertise can propel us forward. Whether you have fresh thinking around maximizing a new technology or you see a gap in the market, we are here to listen and take action. Our team is made strong by a diversity of thoughts, experiences, skills, and backgrounds. You'll enjoy working with smart, fun, curious colleagues, who are passionate about their work. Come be part of a team that motivates you to do your best work