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Our Nielsen Brandbank team is one of the world's most trusted providers of digital product content, delivering an end to end solution for brands, retailers and wholesalers across the globe. Within Nielsen Brandbank Technology, we work diligently to provide best-in-class solutions, using an incremental delivery approach to develop new & existing products. 

Job Purpose 

Nielsen Brandbank Software Developers work collaboratively alongside other development team members, Product Owners & Scrum Masters to realize business goals.  

Working within dedicated domains, the Software Developer - using an incremental delivery approach - is responsible for supporting & developing new and existing products by understanding and translating backlog items into solutions. 

Job Responsibilities 

• Approach work from an Agile mindset applying practices and principles wherever possible 

• Work with the Scrum Master in coaching and mentoring other team members to help them embrace the Agile mindset 

• Expert in their domain 

• Attend and participate in all Sprint events to achieve desired outcomes, taking a leading role where required to ensure events have a good outcome   

• Interact with stakeholders/third parties/Product Owner to clarify requirements and provide input into the creation of User Stories   

• Manage own tasks 

• Collaborate closely with all team members to take a shared responsibility for estimation/forecasting, sprint planning and sprint success 

• Take responsibility for the quality of the team’s code - writing unit tests and conduct unit testing where applicable 

• Maintain broader code quality through peer code reviews  

• Perform live releases in line with team release schedule   

• Identify improvement opportunities and agree on actionable improvements 

• Provide 2nd/3rd line support within his/her domain environment 

• Be available, on a best endeavors basis, to support the resolution of Severity 1 and 2 incidents for applications owned by your team between 7am and 10pm local time on local working days as well as providing retrospective feedback 

Role Requirements E=essential, P=preferred 

E - BE/B.Tech or equivalent professional qualification or experience 

E – Strong hands on technical skills in modern PHP and other key technologies: 

• PHP v7/8 

• Symfony Framework 2 or higher 

• MySQL or MariaDB 

• Elastic Search 

• Redis 

• JavaScript / Typescript (React preferable) 

• Unit Testing 

• GIT 

• XML, JSON 

P - Ability to work in Microsoft stack 

• .NET / dot net core 

• c# 

• ASP.net / MVC 

• SQL Server / TSQL 

• Azure 

E - Demonstrable experience of mentoring other more junior developers  

E - Ability to learn new languages and technologies quickly 

E - Good understanding of software architecture, issues and design 

E - Good understanding of data and databases 

E - Familiarity and good experience with Agile development methodologies and the complete product lifecycle from inception to delivery 

E - Excellent communication skills - both written and verbal 

E - An analytical mind in identifying appropriate solutions for business requirements 

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

P - Some experience of code reviews and coding standards 

About NIQ

NIQ, the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, reveals new pathways to growth for retailers and consumer goods manufacturers. With operations in more than 100 countries, NIQ delivers the most complete and clear understanding of consumer buying behavior through an advanced business intelligence platform with integrated predictive analytics. NIQ delivers the Full View. 

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