The NielsenIQ BASES' mission is to help companies successfully innovate in a competitive market context. We use market data, predictive models, and market research services to provide our client organizations with valuable advice on how to innovate. In order to provide an insightful service, we use a vast range of technology and software that are mostly developed internally, together with some of our partners. This is a key asset for our business. In order to keep innovating in the technology area, we are now establishing three Global Technology Centres: US, India, and Portugal. The new European Technology Centre in Portugal has a mission to be part of the global team that develops our core technology solutions, but it is also in a great location to support our NielsenIQ European business.

Our Team

The new team in Portugal will grow to have all the necessary sub-teams to fully work on product development, which includes: three different software engineering teams, one quality assurance automation team, and 1 DevOps team. This is where we need your help. We are looking for talented individuals who would like to help us build and be part of this engineering team in Portugal. 

What you will do:

• Design and architect new single-page web applications and develop key system features. 
• Explore and evaluate new technologies to advance our SaaS platform and grow our business
• Lead a team that will execute projects from beginning to end, including working with product management, gathering requirements, brainstorming solutions, building final applications and testing.
• Delegate tasks to team members matching their individual experience to the task to promote engagement, learning and probability of success.
• Provide practical technical guidance to your product manager partner to increase the odds of overall project success.
• Troubleshoot technical issues as they emerge
• Escalate technical issues impacting activities outside of your team.
• Enforce community best practices and team SDLC guidelines
• Work with your QA lead partner to ensure the overall quality of project deliverables.
• Mentor more junior developers and encourage senior developers to mentor as well.
• Work closely with architects, and other teams to design and implementation cross functional requirements
• Lead design and code reviews encouraging participation of your team members

Expected competencies

• Architectural design
• Intra and inter team communication
• Mentoring
• Cross team influencing
• Team leadership
• Channels initiative effectively

Growth areas

• Cross team leadership
• Time and financial costing
• Cross team mentoring programs
• Managing expectations external to the team
• Architectural design programs

Education and experience 

• 6 years of software development / engineering experience 
• MS/BS in Software Engineering or related discipline 
• Good command of English

Technical skills 

• Experience programming in Java 
• Experience with microservice development is a plus 
• Experience programming with Javascript frameworks like Angular and Ember 
• Experience in web application development 
• Understanding of relational databases such as MS SQL Server 
• Experience with non-relational databases like MongoDB is a plus 
• Familiarity with Agile process 
• Passion for learning new technologies 
• Experience with IaaS & PaaS from a cloud vendor is a plus.  Azure preferred. 
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is a plus 

ABOUT NIELSEN We’re in tune with what the world is watching, buying, and everything in between. If you can think of it, we’re measuring it. We sift through the small stuff and piece together big pictures to provide a comprehensive understanding of what’s happening now and what’s coming next for our clients. Today’s data is tomorrow’s marketplace revelation.

We like to be in the middle of the action. That’s why you can find us at work in over 100 countries. From global industry leaders to small businesses, consumer goods to media companies, we work with them all. We’re bringing in data 24/7 and the possibilities are endless. See what’s next with us at Nielsen: careers.nielsen.com

Nielsen 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.

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.