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. Kantar's Profiles division is home to the world's largest audience network. With access to 170m+ people in over 100 global markets, we offer unrivalled global reach with local relevancy. Validated by industry leading anti-fraud technology, Kantar's Profiles Audience Network delivers the most meaningful data with consistency, accuracy, and accountability - all at speed and scale.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our data ecosystem and driving actionable insights! Your expertise will be crucial in building and maintaining robust data infrastructure, scalable pipelines, and seamless integrations that empower our Business Data Science initiatives. By streamlining workflows and ensuring efficient data management, you will directly impact decision-making and innovation across the organization.

Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you will develop APIs, implement ML/AI best practices, and enable the deployment and monitoring of advanced models. Your work will strengthen the foundation of our data-driven strategy, fostering collaboration and creating value for both internal teams and external stakeholders! This is an opportunity to redefine how data drives our success and growth.

• Develop and maintain data pipelines that efficiently process and transform production data into formats suitable for analytics and machine learning applications.
• Design and optimize scalable databases and implement robust infrastructure solutions to support real-time data integrity and model performance monitoring.
• Collaborate with data scientists to deploy machine learning models into production, ensuring automated training, evaluation, and deployment workflows are in place.
• Create and enhance RESTful APIs using FastAPI to securely and efficiently expose data and model predictions to relevant teams and services.
• Foster collaboration with cross-functional teams by aligning technical solutions with business objectives, while implementing best practices and infrastructure as code for automation.

• Python Expertise: Strong programming skills, especially in Python, for developing scalable APIs and data pipelines.
• Database Proficiency: Advanced knowledge of SQL databases and optimization techniques to support real-time analytics.
• Cloud Technologies: Hands-on experience with AWS or Azure for deploying and managing data infrastructure.
• AI/ML Integration: Practical experience in deploying, monitoring, and automating the lifecycle of machine learning models.
• Infrastructure as Code: Skilled in tools like Terraform, GitHub Actions, or CloudFormation for automating deployment workflows and ensuring system reliability.

We\'re not able to offer visa sponsorship or help with relocation support for this role. Please make sure you\'ve got the right to work in the country where this role is located before applying.

You'll be joining our Profiles division, home to specialists in survey design, sampling and data science. With the world\'s largest audience network (over 170 million people), we\'re trusted by many of the world\'s leading brands to provide amazing insights from real people.

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 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.

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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