Backend Engineer (.Net/Java/Python)

At Nielsen, we believe that career growth is a partnership. You ultimately own, fuel and set the journey. By joining our team of nearly 14,000 associates, you will become part of a community that will help you to succeed. We champion you because when you succeed, we do too. Embark on a new initiative, explore a fresh approach, and take license to think big, so we can all continuously improve. We enable your best to power our future.

About the role

Your primary objective is to ensure project goals are achieved and are aligned with business objectives. You will also work closely with your Scrum team and program team to test, develop, refine and implement quality software in production via standard Agile methodologies. You will mentor and help other team members to deliver the scrum team objectives,

• Build scalable, reliable, cost-effective solutions for both the Cloud and on-premises
• Understanding of current technologies and experience with legacy technologies.
• Understands when the architecture needs to change to meet requirements. Understand system test principles and best practices.
• Provide cloud integration development support to various project teams.
• Rapidly identify and resolve technical incidents as they emerge
• Collaborate effectively with Data Science to understand, translate, and integrate methodologies into engineering build pipelines

• 0-3 years of hands-on software development with a bachelor's degree.
• Experience in software development using programming languages & tools/services: .Net Programming (c#, Basic, asp.net) or Java or Python
• Strong in SQL
• Experience with orchestration tools: Apache Airflow or similar tools is a plus
• Knowledge on Windows, Unix/Linux OS, commands, shell scripting
• Understanding in Java/J2EE, Spring boot/cloud frameworks
• Knowledge in Agile scrum application development
• Knowledge in databases like SQLServer and/or Oracle
• Deployment and automation: CI/CD Pipeline is a plus
• Knowledge in Gitlab /Bitbucket is a plus
• AWS Programming Certification is a plus.
• Ability to quickly learn vendor owned Computer Aided Telephone Interviewing (CATI).

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and technical skills in troubleshooting and problem resolution
• Should be a quick learner of new technologies
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