Media help partners understand the changing advertising landscape. Specialising in audience measurement, consumer targeting and in-depth intelligence into paid, owned and earned media, their global coverage and local expertise enable better understanding of media audiences and their relationships with brands.
Kantar Media is a wholly owned but operationally independent part of the Kantar Group.
Job Details
Kantar Media is a global leader in media research. This includes audience measurement - reporting all viewing on all platforms, consumer profiling and targeting with TGI, and in-depth advertising intelligence. Our versatility, scale, technology and expertise enable our teams to understand the changing media landscape and drive growth for our clients.
Kantar Media is seeking a Software Development Manager with at least 8 to 10 years of experience. Working closely with the Technical Lead Director, your responsibilities will be the following:
Job role requirements
- Owning the development team in design, development, coding, testing and debugging of Data Integration application
- Managing all the activities of the software development team and set goals for each team member to ensure timely project delivery
- Keep up to date with the latest development software
- Hire and train new developers
- Provide mentorship to the team and ensure they enforce to development standards
- Ensure adequate documentation exists
- Build alliance and work with other partner pillars within Kantar for a shared goal
Role requirements
Essential:
- Experience in the data processing applications
- Practical production experience in software implementation
- Experience working with high-level sophisticated problem definition using algorithms
- Good social skills
- Experience working in a distributed team
- Background in software development or in a hands on technical role
Desirable:
- Spark data processing
- Cloud technologies – Azure, DataBricks, Kubernetes
- Software Architectural skills
- DevOps
- Agile / Scrum certified
At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.
We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion, and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us.
We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted, and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and wellbeing is taken into consideration. We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.
At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.
Country
United Kingdom
Why join Kantar?
We pride ourselves on understanding people, and what makes us think and act the way we do.
And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.