Senior Data Engineer at Kantar

Porto, , Portugal -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

12 Jul, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

13 Apr, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Python, SQL, AWS, Azure, Machine learning, Data pipelines, FastAPI, Terraform, GitHub Actions, CloudFormation, Data infrastructure, API development, Database optimization, Model monitoring, Infrastructure as code

Industry

Market Research

Description

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. To start a career that is out of the ordinary, please apply... Job Details We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. About the job As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our data ecosystem and driving actionable insights. Your expertise will be crucial in building and maintaining robust data infrastructure, scalable pipelines, and seamless integrations that empower our Business Data Science initiatives. By streamlining workflows and ensuring efficient data management, you will directly impact decision-making and innovation across the organization. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you will develop APIs, implement ML/AI best practices, and enable the deployment and monitoring of advanced models. Your work will strengthen the foundation of our data-driven strategy, fostering collaboration and creating value for both internal teams and external stakeholders! This is an opportunity to redefine how data drives our success and growth. Job Goals Develop and maintain data pipelines that efficiently process and transform production data into formats suitable for analytics and machine learning applications. Design and optimize scalable databases and implement robust infrastructure solutions to support real-time data integrity and model performance monitoring. Collaborate with data scientists to deploy machine learning models into production, ensuring automated training, evaluation, and deployment workflows are in place. Create and enhance RESTful APIs using FastAPI to securely and efficiently expose data and model predictions to relevant teams and services. Foster collaboration with cross-functional teams by aligning technical solutions with business objectives, while implementing best practices and infrastructure as code for automation. Ideal Skills & Capabilities Python Expertise: Strong programming skills, especially in Python, for developing scalable APIs and data pipelines. Database Proficiency: Advanced knowledge of SQL databases and optimization techniques to support real-time analytics. Cloud Technologies: Hands-on experience with AWS or Azure for deploying and managing data infrastructure. AI/ML Integration: Practical experience in deploying, monitoring, and automating the lifecycle of machine learning models. Infrastructure as Code: Skilled in tools like Terraform, GitHub Actions, or CloudFormation for automating deployment workflows and ensuring system reliability. What’s in it for you On top of all your normal benefits like holiday, meal cards and life assurance, we also offer: Five days of Life Leave per year; for those days when life just…gets in the way. Birthday leave – one extra day of holiday taken on the nearest workday to your birthday Two days a year to give back and volunteer with an organisation of your choice. Enhanced primary and secondary carer leave for however you choose to grow your family. The chance to hit the beach on your lunch break (yes, we have somewhere you can store your surfboard!) Please be aware, the majority of our roles are hybrid, working three days a week in our office. We’re not able to offer visa sponsorship or help with relocation support for this role. Please make sure you’ve got the right to work in the country where this role is located before applying. What part of Kantar might I be joining? You’ll be joining our Profiles division, home to specialists in survey design, sampling and data science. With the world’s largest audience network (over 170 million people), we’re trusted by many of the worlds leading brands to provide amazing insights from real people. Why join Kantar? We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And if we combine the expertise of our people with the latest AI technology, we can really help brands discover some amazing insights. 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 works for them. 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. Privacy and Legal Statement 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. PRIVACY DISCLOSURE: Please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by The Kantar Group Limited (“Kantar”). Your details will be kept on our Internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment, which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager. Location Porto, R. Dom João IPortugal Kantar Rewards Statement 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 also 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 well being 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. Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow. KANTAR Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure to support analytics and machine learning applications. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy models and create secure RESTful APIs.