Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

Date: 9/9/2020
Location: Oldsmar, FL
Company: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Principal Software Engineer
(Job Location: Oldsmar, FL) – (Job ID # 71482)

Founded in 1923, Nielsen is the global authority on the consumer. We help over 20,000 clients, from Coca-Cola to Walmart to Apple to Disney, in 105 countries understand consumers and grow their businesses, every day. The company is organized into two areas: What Consumers Watch, serving media, telecom and tech industries; and What Consumers Buy, serving consumer goods, retail, financial services and automotive industries.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

Responsible for analyzing, designing, developing, implementing, supporting, and refining applications for the Digital Measurement Platform: Develop highly complex software code, which is maintainable, and easy to use. Develop and execute application test plans, analyze test results, and make appropriate revisions to ensure the applications function as specified. Create working prototypes. Create build and deployment process scripts. Work closely with architects/designers to design and implement reusable system solutions. Develop solutions that incorporate data ETL (extract transform load) and statistical models, using specifications provided by Product Leadership. Serve as an expert liaison between the Product Leadership and other departments and development resources. Analyze data, including common error patterns, trend breaks, and data quality check thresholds. Work with the technical project manager to ensure that the project plan is on track by advising on risks and quality. Oversee (without supervisory authority) 1 to 3 third-party and/or internal (senior) software developers, who construct, test, install, and maintain software applications, including delegating and reviewing work, and mentoring. Provide project updates to management. Tools and technologies used include: Java, Scala, Spring, Spark, Spark SQL and Streaming, SQL, Cloud (including AWS), Docker, RDBMS (such as Postgres and/or Oracle), Linux, Shell scripting, GitLab.

FOR THIS ROLE, WE ARE LOOKING FOR INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE:

Minimum Requirements:
Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field with an information technology focus (foreign equivalent degree acceptable) plus 3 years of experience in software development (would also accept a bachelor’s degree plus 5 years of post-baccalaureate, progressively responsible experience). This must include: 3 years of experience in Java with a mastery of object-oriented design principals; 2 years of experience using Spark in developing distributed processing applications; and 2 years of experience building applications with immutable infrastructure in the AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud with automation technologies like Terraform or Ansible. Any level of experience in and/or knowledge of: Hadoop, Service-oriented architecture, Kubernetes, Docker, Scala, Airflow, SQL, NoSQL, Spark Streaming, and Git.

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About Nielsen:

Nielsen is a global performance management company that provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers Watch and Buy. Nielsen’s Watch segment provides media and advertising clients with Total Audience measurement services across all devices where content – video, audio, and text – is consumed. The Buy segment offers consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers the industry’s only global view of retail performance measurement.

By integrating information from its Watch and Buy segments and other data sources, Nielsen provides its clients with both world-class measurement as well as analytics that help improve performance. Nielsen, an S&P 500 company, has operations in over 100 countries that cover more than 90 percent of the world’s population. For more information, visit www.nielsen.com.

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.

JOB TYPE: Regular
PRIMARY LOCATION: North America-US-Oldsmar, FL
ORGANIZATION:
SCHEDULE: Full-time
SHIFT: Day