Senior Data Engineer

Our NielsenIQ Precima team helps retailers turn shopper insights into strategic advantage. We leverage our deep expertise in data science and technology to mine shopper data, uncovering what drives consumer decision making. By using advanced modeling, artificial intelligence and cloud-based SaaS solutions, we are able to put these insights at the fingertips of our clients.  

As a Sr. Data Engineer, you’ll be part of a team of smart, highly skilled engineers who are proud to partner with some of the world’s leading retailers on challenging, cutting-edge, data driven solutions - all powered by our exceptional technology and people. 

Our core technologies currently include Python, Snowflake, Azure, and we continue to adopt the best of breed in cloud-native, low-latency technologies. Our team is co-located and agile, with a central hub in Toronto. 

 What you’ll do 

• Design, development, and implementation of new and existing data processing solutions; enabling teams to be more efficient and effective in analyzing data and getting to insights faster 

• A key contributor in providing data extraction and management solutions to a diverse team of data analysts and data scientists as they develop best-in-class analytics solutions 

• Support data architecture efforts in support of key analytics innovations that involve multiple internal and/or external (client) stakeholders 

• Develop efficient queries to retrieve appropriate datasets from relational databases 

• Design, implement and maintain performance of reliable data pipelines and interfaces that feed various analytics applications, both structured and unstructured data 

• Create, implement, and maintain data transformation processes 

• Work alongside key stakeholders within the team to put data processing solutions into production environment 

We’re looking for people who have 

• 3+ years of experience leading complex data architecture projects.

• Strong Python development experience

• Excellent SQL coding skills

• Experience with Cloud platforms – Azure strongly preferred

• Experience working within a Unix/Linux environment.

• Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems degree (or equivalent combination of skill and experience) 

• Experience in data integration design, implementation, and maintenance, data lakes/hubs 

• Experience with developing REST APIs and microservices 

REF13922U

About NielsenIQ 

NielsenIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company that provides the most complete and trusted view available of consumers and markets worldwide. We provide consumer packaged goods manufacturers/fast-moving consumer goods and retailers with accurate, actionable information and insights and a complete picture of the complex and changing marketplace that companies need to innovate and grow. Our approach marries proprietary NielsenIQ data with other data sources to help clients around the world understand what’s happening now, what’s happening next, and how to best act on this knowledge.  We like to be in the middle of the action. That’s why you can find us at work in over 90 countries, covering more than 90% of the world’s population. For more information, visit www.niq.com.

NielsenIQ 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.