Senior Software Engineer
Job Description
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Job Details
We're the world's leading data, insights, and consulting company we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.
Kantar is undergoing the largest Tech transformation our $7.5bn business has seen, allowing us to become a leading global Data / Analytics powerhouse, suppling giants such as Google and Unilever with innovative insights into the behaviour of their customers.
Since being acquired by Bain Capital in December 2019 we have been mapping out how to realise this vision, by expanding, upgrading, and evolving our Tech Platforms and Infrastructure. We are Cloud Native (Azure) and are modernising and integrating all our tech stacks to allow us to provide a swifter and more automated response to our client's needs.
For this we need some of the best minds in Tech and DevOps to help us solve problems for the long term, with the freedom to take measured risk with innovative solutions. From the top down, our global tech community is truly collaborative and supportive, with excellent training resources to ensure you are coached and guided to improve your skills, so you continue to grow as we do.
Job Description
Kantar is a global leader in data, insights, and consulting. We have deep knowledge of people's thoughts, emotions, shopping habits, social media activity, voting patterns, and media consumption. Our Insights team specializes in understanding human behaviour.They offer expertise in brand strategy, innovation, creative development, media planning, e-commerce, and customer experience. They assist clients in defining brand values, driving disruption and renewal, engaging audiences, and winning over consumers and customers.
KAP is a platform that automates market research, from the beginning to the final deliverables. Equivalent experience is acceptable in place of educational requirements.
Role overview
We are excited to identify talented Senior Software Engineers that will help to drive excellence within our engineering teams in Kantar!
The Senior Software Engineer will thrive when presented with complex new challenges on our Kantar Automation Platform project and will serve as a Senior Software Engineerand mentor to other engineers within our program. As a Senior Software Engineer for Kantar on KAP, you will lead a team of engineers in developing first class .Net services for one of Kantar's largest projects.This will be a great opportunity for an experienced .Net engineer who is aiming to get onto a large project within an organization that is evolving it's offer rapidly.
Key Responsibilities- Support the technical direction and enhancements for microservices written in .NET that your team manages
- Mentor junior members of your team
- Help design and build new microservices and help to bring them to production quickly
- Be a key contributor in setting the team's technical direction, best practices for team
- Be a key contributor in the creation of technical roadmap for team and services that the team manages
- The Senior Software Engineer and full stack engineers will work closely with Product Manager, Business Analysts, and other Development teams to define requirements that they can use to implement with best-in-class technology
Skills & Experience
Essential experience- 6+ years of experience with .NET and C#
- Deep knowledge of object-oriented design
- Knowledge and experience working with Restful services
- 3+ years of experience managing development of a software application as a Senior Software Engineerin previous roles.
- Prefer experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
- Knowledge and experience developing on a Microservices architecture
- Knowledge and experience with Large Language Models and developing solutions with Generative AI
- Deep knowledge of object-oriented design
- Strong foundation in developing solutions that are deployed in the cloud - Microsoft Azure preferably
- Good understanding of full stack development
- Someexperiencesupporting and sometimes training engineers with less experience
- Knowledge and experience with performance / load testing complex applications
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to influence others to your opinions
- Ability to break down complex problems into logical and manageable constructs
- Desire and capability to innovate (within the scope and requirements of stakeholders)
- Demonstrable capability to work across teams and deliver on multiple projects at once
- Demonstrable willingness to see through a project from inception to completion and provide technical input across the project lifecycle
- Happy to get hands dirty when problems arise
- Ability to plan, schedule and monitor own work in a systematic and analytical manner within a limited time horizon
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
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.
Location
Bangalore, Prestige Technology ParkIndia
Kantar Rewards Statement
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 competitiveand alsoto 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 andwell beingis 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.
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 30,000 people help the world's leading organisations succeed and grow.