Senior Data Engineer

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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.

About the job

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 alignement 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

• 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 if we combine the expertise of our people with the latest AI technology, we can really help brands discover some amazing insights.  

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 works for them. 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.

Privacy and Legal Statement

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

PRIVACY DISCLOSURE: Please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by The Kantar Group Limited (“Kantar”). Your details will be kept on our Internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment, which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager.

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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.