Senior Data Engineer

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

Our Functions teams are right at the centre of our business, making sure we can always get better, every day. Supporting the business with things like Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Legal and Technology, our Functions colleagues are skilled professionals whose role it is to ensure we continue to become an indispensable partner to brands everywhere.

Job Details

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

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of our Digital Twins product. Your impact will be felt as you understand client needs, the industry, and market dynamics, driving innovative solutions. You will be responsible for building technology platforms, pipelines, and databases, collaborating with the team on experiments, testing hypotheses, and creating demos to showcase progress. Your contributions will be vital in running visualisations to track metrics and maintaining extensive project documentation, ensuring the success of the initiative.

Fitting seamlessly into our wider team, you will thrive in a dynamic “skunk-works” environment, continuously expanding your knowledge and exploring new technologies. Your ability to seek out and integrate new tools, software, algorithms, and libraries will optimize processes and drive the project forward. Coding expertise is essential in this collaborative and impactful role.

Job Goals

• Understand and contribute to the development of the Digital Twins product.

• Identify and address client needs, industry trends, and market dynamics to drive innovative solutions.

• Collaborate with the team to build technology platforms, pipelines, and databases, ensuring high-quality code is produced.

• Conduct experiments, test hypotheses, and create demos to showcase progress and achievements.

• Explore and integrate new tools, software, algorithms, and libraries to optimize processes and advance the project.

Ideal Skills & Capabilities

• Proficiency in building and maintaining data pipelines, databases, and ETL processes in a production environment.

• Expertise in cloud architecture and production web-based applications, with a focus on ML operations (e.g., Python, SQL).

• Strong understanding of professional software engineering practices and the software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

• Experience in cloud development, particularly on Azure/Fabric; familiarity with AWS and other cloud platforms is also beneficial.

• An eagerness to learn and master new technologies and techniques, demonstrating a proactive and self-driven approach.

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.

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Country

United Kingdom

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.