Software Engineer

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Role Overview

We are excited to identify talented Software Engineers that will help to drive excellence within our Operational and Transactional Systems engineering teams in Kantar!

The Software Engineer will thrive when presented with new challenges on our applications. As a Software Engineer for Kantar, you will collaborate with other engineers in developing first class .net applications for several of Kantar’s applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain .NET applications as part of the Transactional Systems team

• Write clean and efficient code using best practices within the industry

• Deal with ambiguity in solving a complex problem

• Will work closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, and other Development teams members to develop features for our applications.

• Support continuous improvement of practices within your development squad

• Be a champion for driving agility within your squad

Key Capabilities & Experience

The ideal candidate would be someone who has a genuine passion for designing and implementing elegant software solutions. They would also be intimately familiar with the .Net development ecosystem and be able to make sound decisions when it comes to developing solutions.

Essential experience

• 3+ years of experience with .NET and C#

• Knowledge and experience working with Restful services

• Knowledge and experience developing in .NET with front end technologies such as Javascript, jQuery, Angular

• Strong understanding of full stack development

• Strong ability in writing and maintaining Unit Tests

• Strong understanding of developing for performance and scalability

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.

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.

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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.