Lead Software Engineer

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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 Technical Leads that will help to drive excellence within our engineering teams in Kantar!

The Technical Lead will thrive when presented with complex new challenges on our Kantar Automation Platform project and will serve as a Technical Lead and mentor to other engineers within our program!

As a Technical Lead 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 its offer rapidly.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with other engineering leads and teams who are aligned towards the same goal with many opportunities for cross-team influence, architecture, and collaboration.

• Support the technical direction and enhancements for microservices written in .Net that your team manages

• Mentor, and support career growth of your direct reports

• Manage performance within your team

• 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 Technical Lead 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

Capabilities and experience

This role is perfect for an automation tester with expertise in Playwright, Cypress, or SpecFlow. If you want to advance your testing career and have a significant impact on the automation and quality of the KAP project, this opportunity is for you.

Essential experience

• 8+ 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 Technical Lead in previous roles.

• 2+ years of experience managing development team members as a Technical Lead

Desirable experience

• 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

Essential skills

• 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

• Demonstrable skills with to training mentoring a Squad of back-end engineers

• Demonstrable skills in building and define a technical roadmap for a software application

• Demonstrable experience in delegating tasks within the team to ensure development goals are met

Desirable skills

• Knowledge and experience with performance / load testing complex applications

Personal skills

• 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 feedback 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

Educational requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent professional experience.

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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.