Director of Engineering

Nielsen · USA

Company

Nielsen

Location

USA

Type

Full Time

Job Description

Nielsen is a global leader in audience insights, data and analytics, Nielsen shapes the future of media with accurate measurement of what people listen to and watch. This role will be a leader in the Marketing Cloud business unit.

The Nielsen Marketing Cloud (NMC) helps publishers, advertisers and agencies with targetable audience data for programmatic advertising. We connect leading online publishers with advertisers, ad agencies and ad networks who seek to create a more interest-tailored online advertising experience.

We are looking for a Director of Engineering who likes to work on cutting-edge technologies in an environment that gives you the autonomy to explore, learn, and adapt.Β 

This role combines technical expertise with leadership skills to successfully deliver software products while mentoring and supporting the Architecture and Devops teams. It will lead the data strategy, architecture, design, development, and implementation of our end-to-end data products.


Responsibilities
  • Manage a team of architects and devops engineers
  • Ability to transform a user story/concept into a working scalable system
  • Be able to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, meet deadlines, effectively manage priorities, and communicate progress
  • Drive the adoption of DevOps culture, principles, and practices across the organization, promoting collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement
  • Ensure the availability, performance, scalability, and security of backend systems
  • Support the implementation of applications that are fault-tolerant, scalable, and resilient
  • Suggest and implement best practices and architecture improvements
  • Collaborate with all technical teams to ensure the integrity of technical designs and features within the platform


  • Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
  • At least 10+ years of IT architecture and devops experience
  • 6+ years experience managing devops or architecture teams
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Spark in Scala, Apache Airflow pipelines in Python, Git, SQL, Java
  • Experience with Microservice Architecture, establishing standardize/reusable architectural patterns, enterprise integration, messaging solutions, Data Architecture
  • Experience with continuous deployment tools (ie GitLab pipelines), Terraform, Ansible, Bash programming, and Docker/K8sExcellent problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to present in front on business users and executive management
  • Experience with Cloud Native Applications, preferably in AWS

  • NICE TO HAVE SKILLS
  • Certification for AWS
  • Master’s degree in Computer Science
  • Experience with SBT (build tool)
  • Nielsen: Enabling your best to power a better media future. Our comprehensive benefits package (including health & wellness plans for full-time employees, 401(k) retirement coupled with a Nielsen match, a generous paid time off policy, and if eligible, a discretionary incentive/bonus) is designed to be inclusive for all employees and families, and we take pride in ensuring that employees are rewarded holistically for the role they are doing and their performance.Β 

    A reasonable estimate of salary range for a new employee to be offered this role would be between $66,000-$225,000 which would be adjusted based on each employee's geographic location.Β  The position of each employee within a compensation range at Nielsen is dependent on several individual circumstances, such as experience, training, certifications and other business requirements/needs

    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.

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    Date Posted

    09/17/2024

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