NielsenIQ
Senior Data Engineer
Job Description
Company Description
About Gfk
For over 80 years, GfK has been a reliable and trusted insight partner for the world’s biggest companies and leading brands who make a difference in every consumer’s life – and we will continue to build on this. We connect data, science and innovative digital research solutions to provide answers for key business questions around consumers, markets, brands and media. With our headquarters in Germany and a presence in around 60 countries worldwide, you benefit from our global company with a di‐ verse community of ~9,000 employees. Harnessing the power of our workforce, the greatest asset we have is our people. As part of GfK, you can take your future into your own hands. We value talent, skills and responsibility and support your development within our international teams. We are proud of our heritage and our future: Currently we are in the latter stages of a transformational journey from a traditional market research company to a trusted provider of prescriptive data analytics powered by innovative technology. This is only possible with extraordinary people and therefore we are looking for you to help create our future. For our employees as well as for our clients we pursue one goal: Growth from Knowledge!
Job Description
Data Pipeline – Senior Software Engineer
About Gfk
For over 80 years, GfK has been a reliable and trusted insight partner for the world’s biggest companies and leading brands who make a difference in every consumer’s life – and we will continue to build on this. We connect data, science and innovative digital research solutions to provide answers for key business questions around consumers, markets, brands and media. With our headquarters in Germany and a presence in around 60 countries worldwide, you benefit from our global company with a di‐ verse community of ~9,000 employees. Harnessing the power of our workforce, the greatest asset we have is our people. As part of GfK, you can take your future into your own hands. We value talent, skills and responsibility and support your development within our international teams. We are proud of our heritage and our future: Currently we are in the latter stages of a transformational journey from a traditional market research company to a trusted provider of prescriptive data analytics powered by innovative technology. This is only possible with extraordinary people and therefore we are looking for you to help create our future. For our employees as well as for our clients we pursue one goal: Growth from Knowledge!
Job Description
Your primary role will be to assist in the on-going development and evolution of the existing Client Platform ETL pipeline.
The pipeline can be thought of as follows:
- Extract sales data from a central GfK Database (Oracle)
- Transform it into the required domain data structures for Client Platform
- Load the transformed data into a suitable database for consumption (currently Postgres)
The responsibilities of the data pipeline team can be broadly summarised as:
- Investigation and delivery of data to support new feature requirements
- Ensuring data parity & quality between the source and destination data
- Continual improvements to the codebase – the team will be regularly reviewing the codebase, identifying areas for improvement, planning and implementing appropriate changes
- Ad-hoc support with regards to data queries from stakeholders
Essential Skills
- Strong SQL experience (5+ years)
- Strong software development experience in Python (5+ years)
- Ideally with experience in another suitable language such as Java, .NET or similar
- Strong experience working within linux/unix based systems & bash scripts
- Gravitate towards quality, writing well tested code i.e. TDD / BDD
- Solid knowledge of containers e.g. Docker, Kubernetes & Helm
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, including monitoring and observability
- Experience working in an AGILE environment i.e. Scrum, Kanban
- Good communication and collaboration skills
- Good problem-solving skills
Desired (Non-Essential) Skills
- Experience working in any Cloud environment e.g. GCP, Azure, AWS
- Experience with orchestrators e.g. Cloud Composer, Airflow, Argo
- Experience of event driven architectures
- Experience of batch/stream data processing
- Experience of NoSQL databases
Additional Information
Our Benefits
- Flexible working environment
- Volunteer time off
- LinkedIn Learning
- Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)
About NIQ
NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.
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