Job Description
Kantar is a global leader in data, insights, and consulting. We have deep knowledge of people's thoughts, emotions, shopping habits, social media activity, voting patterns, and media consumption. Our Insights team specializes in understanding human behaviour. They offer expertise in brand strategy, innovation, creative development, media planning, e-commerce, and customer experience. They assist clients in defining brand values, driving disruption and renewal, engaging audiences, and winning over consumers and customers.
KAP is a platform that automates market research, from the beginning to the final deliverables. Equivalent experience is acceptable in place of educational requirements.
Role Overview
We are excited to identify talented Senior Software Engineers that will help to drive excellence within our engineering teams in Kantar!
The Senior Software Engineer will thrive when presented with complex new challenges on our Kantar Automation Platform project and will serve as a Senior Software Engineer and mentor to other engineers within our program. As a Senior Software Engineer for Kantar on KAP, you will lead a team of engineers in developing first class .Net services for one of Kantar’s largest projects. This will be a great opportunity for an experienced .Net engineer who is aiming to get onto a large project within an organization that is evolving its offer rapidly!
Key Responsibilities
Support the technical direction and enhancements for microservices written in .NET that your team manages
Mentor junior members of your team
Help design and build new microservices and help to bring them to production quickly
Be a key contributor in setting the team’s technical direction, best practices for team
Be a key contributor in the creation of technical roadmap for team and services that the team manages
The Senior Software Engineer and full stack engineers will work closely with Product Manager, Business Analysts, and other Development teams to define requirements that they can use to implement with best-in-class technology
Skills & Experience
Essential experience
6+ years of experience with .NET and C#
Deep knowledge of object-oriented design
Knowledge and experience working with Restful services
3+ years of experience managing development of a software application as a Senior Software Engineer in previous roles.
Desirable experience
Prefer experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
Knowledge and experience developing on a Microservices architecture
Knowledge and experience with Large Language Models and developing solutions with Generative AI
Essential skills
Deep knowledge of object-oriented design
Strong foundation in developing solutions that are deployed in the cloud - Microsoft Azure preferably
Good understanding of full stack development
Some experience supporting and sometimes training engineers with less experience
Desirable skills
Knowledge and experience with performance / load testing complex applications
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 input
Location
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.