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As Data Engineer, you will be part of the Big Data Platform team, which is composed of software developers and analysts, whose purpose is to develop, configure, maintain and deploy big data application platforms that function to allow the team to manage multiple large data sources. These software development activities enable Nielsen to collect, store, process and analyze complex data sets for market trends and insights through its digital products and solutions.

You will be responsible for designing, developing, maintaining, implementing and deploying data warehouse solutions for processing and analyzing data (e.g., using complex programming and software engineering tools to create data pipelines, implement platform frameworks and automated application workflows to extract, transform and load (ETL) data).

As part of the Big Data Platform team, develop highly-complex, business-critical bigdata platform applications and automation solutions for data ingestion, processing, cleansing, and transformation using programming, application/platform development and software, systems, data and engineering tools, such as Python, AWS Spark framework, Pyspark (The Spark Python Application Programming Interface), Lambda, Athena, Airflow and Presto.

Using software and platform engineering tools, monitor and maintain automation services, jobs, server health, and performance tuning of client-facing business intelligence reports and data analytics dashboards.

Job Responsibilities:

• Hands on developer to work on data modeling, code, and test iteratively on technical solutions for monitoring and analytics requirements
• Implement ETL processes, UI and dashboards for appropriate trends and alerts in BI tools (Spotfire, Superset, Tableau, etc.) for monitoring
• Implement and monitor automated deployment solutions for cloud hosted monitoring applications
• Work as part of the DevOps team create CI/CD pipeline and automation services
• Create appropriate documentation (process flows and technical specs)
• Assist in Monitoring platform support and troubleshooting production issues
• Analyze data contained in the existing data lake to define monitoring solutions

Desired Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Architecture, design, implementation, and operational support expertise with Amazon Web Services such as IAM, EMR, EC2, S3 storage, Lambda, Relational Database Service, Simple Notification Service (AWS Certifications desired)
• Strong "problem-solver" skills, experience with continuous integration and deployment automation tools such as Terraform or Cloudformation
• Expertise in Apache Airflow
• Strong Database Platform background and knowledge, with at least 5 yrs experience with large scale PostgreSQL/MySQL/Hive production environments
• Experience with scripting languages - Pyspark, Python and Shell scripting
• Experience with business intelligence tools such as TIBCO Spotfire, Superset and Tableau 
• Team player with strong verbal and written communication skills

Required experience:

• High Performance Computing Solutions: 4 years
• AWS Cloud Architecture: 2 years
• Business Intelligence development: 2 years

Do you want to move the industry forward with Nielsen? Our people are the driving force. Your thoughts, ideas and expertise can propel us forward. Whether you have fresh thinking around maximizing a new technology or you see a gap in the market, we are here to listen and take action. Our team is made strong by a diversity of thoughts, experiences, skills, and backgrounds. You’ll enjoy working with smart, fun, curious colleagues, who are passionate about their work. Come be part of a team that motivates you to do your best work! 

Nielsen: Enabling your best to power a better media future. Our comprehensive benefits package (including health & wellness plans, 401(k) retirement coupled with a Nielsen match, a generous paid time off policy, and if eligible, a discretionary incentive/bonus) is designed to be inclusive for all employees and families, and we take pride in ensuring that employees are rewarded holistically for the role they are doing and their performance. A reasonable estimate of salary range for a new employee to be offered this role would be between 100,000 - 300,000, which would be adjusted based on each employee's geographic location.  The position of each employee within a compensation range at Nielsen is dependent on several individual circumstances, such as experience, training, certifications and other business requirements/needs.  

 

Nielsen is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.

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