Senior Programmer

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. For more information, visit NIQ.com.

Learn and use technology platforms to support the transition of custom studies from Office document outlines into online surveys. Complete on-time delivery of test links, translated links, survey changes, live links, and provide data to assigned project teams. Regularly assigned to multi-country and complex studies in addition to local projects due to extensive subject matter expertise.

Complete survey programming of all assigned projects using required methodologies which ensure electronic data collection projects run smoothly with high quality and on-time delivery. Identify opportunities to automate and streamline programming activities which increase efficiency, quality, and financial performance.

• Support internal automation and platform development to create greater standardization and efficiency.
• Implement new programming tools or changes to existing tools.
• Ensure all work follows local and global standards and processes.
• Develop standard scripts and templates as needed.
• Negotiate timelines for quick turnaround projects.
• Track and find root cause of programming errors and develop and implement action plans.
• Learn new platforms and platform updates as available.
• Maintain effective communication with all internal and external team members.
• Act as local administrator for Survey Programming (SP) platforms including management of local user pool on all SP platforms; test and deploy updates, informing all stakeholders as needed.
• Provide subject matter expertise to Programmers.
• Plan and conduct training, when needed.
• Work on new process development and deployment, process improvements, and process changes.

You are flexible and easily adapt in a dynamic work environment. You have a can-do attitude, you are self-motivated, and can tell a story using data. Curiosity, communication, and critical thinking drive your work. You are creative in leveraging existing data sources to answer tough questions. You work collaboratively and are part of a remote team within a dynamic and challenging environment, while maintaining high standards.

• Effective communication skills, and able to communicate technical concepts plainly.
• Able to communicate (written and verbal) in English preferred.
• Strong technical aptitude, background in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Automation preferred.
• Expertise with current Custom Insights programming platforms such as Decipher and Survey-to-Go.
• Able to work on complex projects and prioritize work effectively.
• Logical thinker.
• Able to work in a remote team environment.
• High sense of accountability and initiative.
• Continuous learner.
• Familiar with any of the following: VBA / ASP / .NET / Java / Python / SQL Server / My SQL / etc.
• Can work with any of front-end JavaScript: JQuery, Bootstrap, AngularJS, etc.

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.

For more information, visit NIQ.com

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