About the job 

• Work within the Architecture team to collaborate on the overall architecture of Nielsen Brandbank IT systems.
• Work on the solution design for broad, highly-visible, strategic software development projects in an extremely complex and evolving technical and business environment.

Responsibilities 

• Provide and document solution designs for a variety of audiences and stakeholders
• Implement prototypes/spikes when necessary to prove a technology or approach is suited
• Provide high level estimates for projects to guide prioritisation and resource assignment
• Work closely with business analysts and business users on the definition and planning of software projects and user stories
• Work with the architecture team to define coding best practices and standards and provide guidance and governance to developers to ensure they are adhered to.
• Advocate Agile and DevOps best practice adoption so that we move towards CI/CD
• Participate in sprint planning to provide additional information on user stories to help the developers estimate the points
• Work with test team to ensure software quality.
• Review the more complex/high risk code of developers to ensure the design is understood and being followed.
• Consult with internal and external customers and assist with pre-sales as required

About you 

You should have

• Excellent hands on technical skills across some or all of the Microsoft stack, specifically: .NET and C#, ASP.NET, MVC, WCF, ASMX, WPF, SQL Server, TSQL

• Excellent hands on technical skills with the following key technologies:

  ● Javascript, Typescript, jQuery, Knockout, Handlebars

  ● Unit Testing (NUnit, MSTest, Moq)

  ● GIT

  ● XML, JSON

• Excellent understanding of data and database design

• Good understanding of software architecture and design patterns

• Excited by technology, with up to date understanding of latest technologies

• Proven track record in working individually or as part of a team to deliver software solutions to meet customer needs

• High experience of code reviews and coding standards

• Exposure to working on agile methodologies and using agile tools

• Good oral and written communication skills including problem solving, prioritizing and interpersonal relationship building.

• Ability to effectively lead, influence and provide governance over the software development teams

• Experience with ReactJS is also good to have

About NielsenIQ

NielsenIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company providing the most complete and trusted view of consumers and markets in 90 countries covering 90% of the world’s population. Focusing on consumer-packaged goods manufacturers and FMCG and retailers, we enable customers to defy what’s possible. How? We combine unparalleled datasets, pioneering technology, and the industry’s top talent to create insights that unlock innovation. Join us and change the landscape.

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