Senior Developer

We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

Worldpanel provides brands and retailers with a unique, 360-degree understanding of consumer behaviour across the globe. We are shopper-centric, continuously monitoring the purchase and usage behaviour through the largest omnipanel in the world. With unparalleled datasets, pioneering technology and expert analysts, we partner with brands and retailers of all sizes, empowering them to reimagine what’s possible, and change the landscape to create a better, healthier, more sustainable and inclusive world.

Job Details

Job Description

Kantar Worldpanel is moving from legacy production systems to a cloud based one. This transformation requires a software developer.

As senior developer (C#, .NET, Python, Power App) it's important to be informed about the latest technical trends to help resolve the opportunities and challenges our teams face.

You will work closely with a diverse range of key company stakeholders based in the Mainland Europe, UK, Asia and globally.

Our projects use cutting edge technology, and as such we encourage you to stay ahead of current trends and best practices. Ideally, we’d like a candidate that reflects this, with a keen interest in the latest frameworks and technologies. 

As we are a Microsoft Gold partner you will benefit from access to the latest software soon as it becomes available, e.g. Visual Studio 2019, Power Apps.

Key Outcomes

• You will be responsible for owning, grooming, and implementing user stories covering both product and architectural areas.
• You will be expected to foster team culture and the breaking down of knowledge silos by collaborating within and beyond your team and helping to facilitate communication with both your team and the department.
• Attention to detail and a focus on quality at an early stage is paramount, especially as the department is currently implementing a continuous delivery model.
• Responsibilities will also extend to designing, prototyping, and supporting of testing, development and refactoring end-to-end applications on ever-changing modern technology platforms in public/hybrid cloud environments, maintain high quality, production ready code and constructively peer review the code of other developers.
• Use multiple OOTB Connectors with PowerApps and Flow, and preferably create custom connectors for PowerApps and Microsoft Flow.
• Re-write and re-engineer custom legacy applications to PowerApps solutions.
• Integrate Power BI Reports and dashboards into PowerApps.
• You will be participating fully in all agile ceremonies and working with your team to refine, groom and query requirements and propose approach.
• You should be participating in the design process at most stages and be contributing ideas for process or team improvements on a regular basis.

Capabilities

Your background will ideally look like this…

• University Degree (Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree) in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent fields.
• Minimum of 4-5 years of previous experience in full-stack development roles – preferably in application development.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in PowerApps - Mandatory
• Microsoft Certification in PowerApps will be an added advantage
• Excellent UI design skill and hands on experience in designing and developing entities in PowerApps.
• Good exposure to Common data services.
• Good Experience in development of Business process Flow
• Proficiency in Back-End development with ASP.NET, .NET and C#.
• Experienced with GIT for code versioning.
• Comfortable with MS SQL Server.
• Familiar with Azure Development environments – preferably on Azure DevOps and Azure boards.
• Experienced with API development – preferably in MS Azure environment.
• Experience installing, configuring, and supporting a wide range of services.
• Familiar with both Waterfall and Agile Methodologies.

With the following qualities…

• Inquisitive, with critical thinking, and demonstrates a genuine passion for consumer behavior.
• Enjoys actively looking for new and more efficient ways of improving processes, raising standards, reducing errors, and overcoming omissions.
• Is proactive, optimistic, and willing to get involved to achieve the team's goals and objectives.
• Is highly collaborative and adaptable with the ability to work effectively within different cultural and technical environments.
• Possesses outstanding communication and interpersonal skills to comfortably connect with partners at all levels across the organization and facilitates discussions in a constructive manner.

Technical Stack

• C#, .NET Core
• Python
• PowerApps, Power BI, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Azure, PowerShell
• Microsoft SQL / MySQL
• Continuous integration, deployment, and delivery pipelines
• NET / MVC / WebApi / RESTful (optional)
• HTML 5, CSS 2.1+, XML, JSON, Angular (optional)
• JavaScript frameworks (React/redux) (optional)

Keywords: C#, .NET Core, Python, Power Apps, Microsoft SQL, MySQL

What our Recruitment Process Looks Like...

• 1st Stage – Screening interview with Talent Acquisition.
• 2nd Stage – Technical interview with Panel.
• 3rd Stage – Technical interview with Senior Stakeholder.

Division: Kantar Worldpanel

Location: Bangalore, India

Reports to: Yeshwant Kumar

Country

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.