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Big Data Engineer

We’re the world’s 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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Title: Big Data Engineer

Location: Hybrid or Remote

It’s time for a new vision of ad intelligence. Vivvix unifies the advertising intelligence businesses of Kantar and Numerator into an independent company built for innovation, focused on delivering winning clarity for our clients to drive more thoughtful, faster, better decisions. Our vision is to help anyone understand their competitive landscape and view all the dimensions of advertising that might go unseen.

At Vivvix, we have three powerful tenets. We help clients build up a greater understanding of your competitive landscape. We level up advertisers, agencies, and media owners to take command over competitors. We enable them to power up and chart a winning path for themselves.

We’re hiring a dedicated Big Data enthusiast to work in our platform to help ensure that our data quality is magnificent. As a company, we have millions of new data points every day that come into our system. You will be working with a passionate team of engineers to solve exciting problems and ensure that we can deliver the best data to our customers, on-time. You will be using the latest cloud data lake technology to build robust and reliable data pipelines.

Job Responsibilities

Develop expertise in the different upstream data stores and systems across the company.
Design, develop and maintain data integration pipelines for the organization growing data sets and product offerings.
Build unit testing and QA plans for data processes.
Build data validation testing frameworks to ensure high data quality and integrity.
Write and maintain documentation on data processes.
Write code that adheres to coding standards, procedures, and techniques. Maintain the integrity of existing program logic according to specifications.
Actively participate in the code review process to ensure development work adheres to standards and specifications (including peer review and code review external to team).
Respond to all inquiries and issues in a timely manner as developed code/program moves through the testing process.
Participate in scrum, sprints, and backlog grooming meetings.
Evaluate interrelationships between applications to determine whether a change in one part of a project would impact or cause undesirable results in related applications and design for effective interfaces between interrelated applications.
Improve the health of system assets by identifying enhancements to improve performance, reliability, and resource consumption.
Evaluate and solve root-cause analysis for production issues and system failures; determine corrective action(s) and propose improvements to prevent their recurrence.
Maintain up-to-date business domain knowledge and technical skills in software development technologies and methodologies.
Provide guidance in the selection, implementation and use of development tools and best practices.

Technical

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
4 + years of experience in Databricks/Apache Spark
Expert in SQL, including advanced analytical queries.
Proficiency in Python (data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, using API’s) and familiarity with PySpark.
Experience with data streaming or knowledge of data streaming is a plus.
Knowledge of Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL DW, Azure SQL is a plus.

Nice to haves

Understanding of PostgreSQL and MS SQL
Experience working in a fast-paced environment.
Experience in an Agile software development environment.

Benefits

We provide a comprehensive, highly competitive benefits package, including

Medical plans with comprehensive, affordable coverage for a range of health services
Health Savings Account/FSA
Dental, Vision and benefits to cover unique healthcare needs
Wellness Program
401k with matching
Tuition Reimbursement, Commuter benefits
Unlimited PTO

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver. We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us. We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted, and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and wellbeing is taken into consideration. We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

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 on the basis of age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status or any other legally protected characteristics.

PRIVACY DISCLOSURE: Please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by The Kantar Group Limited (“Kantar”). Your details will be kept on our Internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment, which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager.

The salary range for this role in Pennsylvania is 94,400.00 - 157,400.00 USD Annual . Your final base salary will be determined based on several factors which may include but are not limited to location, work experience, skills, knowledge, education and/or certifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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Country

United States of America

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. We’re 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 you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.