Senior Data Engineer

Role Overview

In this hands-on role, the Senior Data Engineer will be pivotal in ensuring the reliability, accuracy, and performance of our data pipelines! Our brand guidance systems are used by a global customer base to derive actionable insights for growth, making data quality essential. You will spearhead the design and implementation of resilient data pipelines. As part of a passionate cross-functional team, you will collaborate closely to maintain the

quality of our production services. Your contributions will have a significant impact on delivering reliable insights that drive brand growth globally! In this role, you will also be responsible for ensuring the seamless integration of data processes within the wider team dynamics.

Job Goals

• Design and implement resilient data pipelines to ensure data reliability, accuracy, and performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain the quality of production services and smoothly integrate data processes.
• Oversee the implementation of common data models and data transformation pipelines, ensuring alignment to standards.
• Drive continuous improvement in internal data frameworks and support the hiring process for new Data Engineers.
• Regularly engage with collaborators to discuss considerations and manage the impact of changes.
• Support architects in shaping the future of the data platform and help land new capabilities into business-as-usual operations.
• Identify relevant emerging trends and build compelling cases for adoption, such as tool selection.
  
  

Ideal Skills & Capabilities

• A minimum of three years of experience in a comparable Senior Data Engineer position is required.
• Data Engineering Expertise: Proficiency in designing and implementing resilient data pipelines, ensuring data reliability, accuracy, and performance, with practical knowledge of modern cloud data technology stacks (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Technical Proficiency: Experience with Azure Data Factory and Databricks, and skilled in Python, Apache Spark, or other distributed data programming frameworks.
• Operational Knowledge: In-depth understanding of data concepts, data structures, modelling techniques, and provisioning data to support varying consumption needs, along with accomplished ETL/ELT engineering skills.
• Automation & DevOps: Experience using DevOps toolchains for managing CI/CD and an automation-first mindset in building solutions, including self-healing and fault-tolerant methods.
• Data Management Principles: Practical application of data management principles such as security and data privacy, with experience handling sensitive data through techniques like anonymisation/tokenisation/pseudo-anonymisation.
  
  

What part of Kantar might I be joining?

You’ll be joining our technology team, right in the middle of our tech revolution. We’re undergoing the largest technology transformation Kantar has ever seen, investing in new AI and cloud technologies. By modernizing all our tech systems, we can respond our clients' needs faster and more efficiently – and keep Kantar as a market leader for insights.

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

Prestige Technology Park, Bangalore, India

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 competitive and also 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 well-being 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.

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.

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