Senior Data Engineer - Porto, Portugal - Kantar Group Limited

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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.

Job Details About the Role Kantar is looking for an experiencedSenior 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 Kantar's 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.

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.

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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.

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.

Kantar is the world's leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else.

Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar's 25000 people help the world's leading organisations succeed and grow.

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