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Maharashtra, India (Remote)

Data Engineer

3 Months ago • 3 Years + • Data Analyst

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spark

azure

aws

python

sql

mysql

postgresql

critical-thinking

Job Details

At Nielsen, we are passionate about our work to power a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever it’s consumed. Together, we are proudly rooted in our deep legacy as we stand at the forefront of the media revolution. When you join Nielsen, you will join a dynamic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and the ambition to make an impact together. We champion you, because when you succeed, we do too. We enable your best to power our future.

Background

Gracenote is the world’s leading entertainment data and technology company. We power the top music services, consumer electronics companies, automakers, media companies and cable and satellite operators on the planet. At its core, Gracenote helps people find, discover and connect with the entertainment they love.

Gracenote does this by

Global Databases - Creating, collecting and organizing detailed information about TV shows,  sports, movies and music .

Best-in-Class Experience - Building best-in-class services and technologies to make TV, sports, movies and music more accessible to and discoverable by fans.

Highly Scalable Platform - All on a highly scalable platform that serves billions every month. The data Gracenote creates and the tech we invent is essential to 80% of Forbes’ Most Valuable Brands in Automotive, Media and Tech.

Job Purpose

We are currently looking for a Data Engineer with 3+ years of experience for our Business

Intelligence & Analytics (BIA) team, which is part of Gracenote’s Global Quality Office. The BIA team is responsible for building standardized, scalable measurement and reporting solutions for our clients and internal teams. Some of our guiding principles are client-centricity, data-driven, transparency, proactiveness, better user-experience and engagement. This role is to assist in the organization’s journey to leverage our vast metadata content.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain big data pipelines on Cloud, for BI solutions.
Leverage distributed computing framework, for processing batch and streaming workloads.
Author and orchestrate jobs, event-driven compute services with a focus on serverless.
Implement and maintain data-warehouse, data-lake and lakehouse architectures for
BI/analytics use-cases.
Develop scalable, cost-effective data solutions using clean coding principles.

Skills

Conceptual, hands-on and strong implementation experience in:

Languages - Python, SQL, Pyspark
Cloud (AWS) - S3, Lambda, Glue, Event Bridge, Step-functions, EC2, EMR, SSM, IAM, VPC,
Cloudfront, Cloudwatch, API Gateway
Modern columnar and open table formats - Parquet, Delta-lake, Apache Iceberg
Relational Databases - PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Amazon RDS
Streaming - Kafka, Spark Streaming, Flink, Druid
Cloud Data-warehouses - Snowflake, AWS Redshift, Synapse Analytics
Data Catalogs - AWS Data Catalog, Hive Metastore, Apache Iceberg
Query Engines - Athena, Presto, Trino, Dremio

Familiarity and working knowledge of:

Unified Platforms - Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse
Modern data stack
API - REST

Soft skills

Problem solving
Strong communication
Collaboration and teamwork
Learning agility for new technologies, languages, systems etc.
Attention to detail, critical thinking and focus on quality

ABOUT NIELSEN :

As the arbiter of truth, Nielsen Global Media fuels the media industry with unbiased, reliable data about what people watch and listen to. To discover what’s true, we measure across all channels and platforms—from podcasts to streaming TV to social media. And when companies and advertisers are armed with the truth, they have a deeper understanding of their audiences and can accelerate growth.

Do you want to move the industry forward with Nielsen? Our people are the driving force. Your thoughts, ideas and expertise can propel us forward. Whether you have fresh thinking around maximizing a new technology or you see a gap in the market, we are here to listen and take action. Our team is made strong by a diversity of thoughts, experiences, skills, and backgrounds. You’ll enjoy working with smart, fun, curious colleagues, who are passionate about their work. Come be part of a team that motivates you to do your best work!

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