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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.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with team leads and backend developers to design and develop functional, robust pipelines to support internal and customer needs

• Write both unit and integration tests, and develop automation tools for daily tasks

• Develop high quality, well documented, and efficient code

• Manage and optimize scalable pipelines in the cloud

• Optimize internal and external applications for performance and scalability

• Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met, and write unit, integration, or data quality tests

• Communicate regularly with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, and other developers regarding progress on long-term technology roadmap

• Recommend systems solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchased alternatives

Key Skills

• Domain Expertise

• 2+ years of experience as a software/data engineer

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or Engineering

• Technical Skills

• Experience in software development using programming languages & tools/services: Java or Scala, Big Data, Hadoop, Spark, Spark SQL, Presto \ Hive, Cloud (preferably AWS), Docker, RDBMS (such as Postgres and/or Oracle), Linux, Shell scripting, GitLab, Airflow, Cassandra & Elasticsearch.

• Experience in big data processing tools/languages using Apache Spark Scala.

• Experience with orchestration tools: Apache Airflow or similar tools.

• Strong knowledge on Unix/Linux OS, commands, shell scripting, python, JSON, YAML.

• Agile scrum experience in application development is required.

• Strong knowledge in AWS S3, PostgreSQL or MySQL.

• Strong knowledge in AWS Compute: EC2, EMR, AWS Lambda.

• Strong knowledge in Gitlab /Bitbucket .

• AWS Certification is a plus

• "Big data" systems and analysis

• Experience with data warehouses or data lakes

• Mindset and attributes

• Strong communication skills with ability to communicate complex technical concepts and align organization on decisions

• Sound problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly process complex information and present it clearly and simply

• Utilizes team collaboration to create innovative solutions efficiently