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Were the worlds leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.
Our Functions teams are right at the centre of our business, making sure we can always get better, every day. Supporting the business with things like Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Legal and Technology, our Functions colleagues are skilled professionals whose role it is to ensure we continue to become an indispensable partner to brands everywhere.


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About the Role


Kantar is looking for an experienced
Senior Data Engineer
, considering the investment that is doing into Technology, Operations and Product.

The selected candidate will join our engineering community, being able to enrich our Data Engineering practice, providing thought leadership in driving the future of our BrandNow and BrandSnapshotW!

Together you will be part of a Team that will be building, enhancing and supporting the next generation of our platform. This role is perfect for a highly qualified Data Engineer who loves work as a team whilst building sophisticated and simple solutions that scale!


Role Summary


You will partner with our architects and product managers to implement our strategy, delivering new technical capabilities and services which will be instrumental to the end-to-end adoption and delivery of Kantar's bold Product roadmap.

Reporting to Kantars Technology division, this role will provide technical expertise to mature our Data area through the design, build and operationalization of pipelines, frameworks, and services.
It's an exciting time to join Kantar; you will get the opportunity to work with industry-leading cloud-native technology and will play an influential role in supporting our new product BrandNow to adopt our engineering patterns and services, facilitating the delivery of high-impact solutions for our customers.


Key Responsibilities


Engineering Excellence

Act as an expertfor all aspects of Data Engineering and use your experience to advise strategy

Play a key role in defining Data Engineering design patterns for data acquisition, transformation and serving

Provide technical guidance and assurance to engineers, ensuring consistency and alignment to agreed standards and quality; actively contributing to all stages of the development lifecycle

Collaborate with team members to translate functional and non-functional requirements into technical features for the data pipeline/product/application

Hands-on: implementation of data applications, data pipelines, and involvement in code reviews, prototyping and spikes

Actively be responsible for the implementation of common data models, data acquisition & transformation pipelines from design to delivery

Drive continuous improvement of our internal data acquisition and transformation frameworks, our central function library and SDKs; ensuring roadmaps, features and technical debt items are captured, prioritised, and considered with future sprints

Support in the hiring process for other Data Engineers

Conform to the DRY programming principle and build re-usable templates through parameterisation and configurations

Build data models that are optimal for various access patterns e.g. Data Analytics, Data Science, Applications both real-time & batch

Support change management and data governance activities

Assess the impact on data models resulting from upstream changes or downstream consumption changes

Operational & Delivery Excellence

Verify requirements and produce Data Engineering implementation designs; support the creation of delivery and QA plans

Engage regularly with stakeholders and platform support teams to verify future capacity planning considerations

Identify and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes and optimising data pipeline/solution delivery where applicable

Provide incident management oversight root cause analysis, stakeholder communications, post-mortems, and lead preventative measures and resolutions

Alignment with compliance and info-security principles, ensuring risk registers are maintained for all data pipelines and products

Represent delivery changes at CAB (Change Advisory Board), ensuring all evidence and due diligence are included ahead of approval

Supporting Strategy

Support the architects in shaping the future of the data platform and aid in landing new capabilities into BAU with consideration for people, process, and technology

Identify relevant emerging trends and build compelling cases for adoption e.g. tool selection

Involved in PoCs, prototypes and innovation spikes to seek directional outcomes

Enabling Adoption

Champion the Brandnow Product and raise awareness of the services we can offer, fostering trust externally with our stakeholders

Serve as the technical expert and encourage standard methodologies within the product engineering teams


Capabilities and Experience


Demonstrated ability in a similar senior role

Experience in operationalizing innovative Data Engineering solutions

Experience using DevOps toolchains for managing CI/CD

Experience with modern cloud data technology stacks e.g.,Azure, AWS, GCP

Proficient in Python, Apache Spark, or any other distributed data programming frameworks

In-depth understanding of data concepts, data structures, modelling techniques and how best to provision data to support varying consumption needs

Accomplished ETL/ELT engineer with commercial experience in building and architecting scalable data acquisition implementations at varying frequencies

Experience with Azure Data Factory and Databricks (preferably python API)

Shown experience in putting a trong emphasis on high-quality application design with a microservice mentality: coding for re-usability, modularity, testability, extendibility, and decoupling for portability

Exposure to working with large complex and diverse datasets/types

Experience with orchestration implementations e.g. Azure Functions, AWS Lambda, Airflow

Possess an automation-first mindset when building solutions; considerations for self-healing and fault-tolerant methods to minimise manual intervention and downtime

Proficient in using Test or Business Driven Development (TDD / BDD) approaches

Fluency in English


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 by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

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 that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. Were dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like youre not an exact match, wed love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.


Country

Portugal


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 by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

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 that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. Were dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like youre not an exact match, wed love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.