Able to exercise application development expertise in key areas to deliver business optimization by improving or re-engineering application architecture.
Develop, and maintain, a heightened sense of awareness in terms of business:
Process
Architecture
Performance Management
Organizational Structure
Able to analyze the flow of work within specific systems and make recommendations for relevant modifications.
Liaise and coordinate with other departments during systems studies for applications, and act as a consultant for development.
Prepares detailed specifications for large and/or complex system development or modification.
Establish programming schedules, coordinate activities, and oversee and carry out programming activities.
Analyze specifications to determine design and schedules for program development.
Write large and/or complex programs, in appropriate languages.
Check, test and debug programs.
Direct and carry out ad hoc analysis and validation of production systems and data.
Prepare documentation covering technical and user information (operational manuals).
Implement and conduct training sessions relative to the effective use of new or existing systems.
Identify documentation holes in current systems – establish an appropriate schedule for delivering this documentation.
Develop procedures, identify and apply tools for quality assurance of software development.
Offer support, inside and outside of business hours, to the ratings data production environment. This will involve participating in an on-call rotational roster.
Execute other duties/functions as directed by the Director of Information Services or the Systems Manager.

QUALIFICATION AND SKILLS

Commercial experience and solid knowledge in Python language.
Exposure to data processing and modelling.
Experience in AWS services and application development: Athena, Glue, PySpark; or someone with some knowledge of AWS services such as S3, athena, glue jobs, EC2.
Knowledge and experience with Linux and bash scripting. Systems Administration exposure.
Database queries (SQL), development and database design.
Working knowledge of source control such as Git.
Experience with XML.
Project Management to the constraints of scope, quality, time and cost.
Detailed knowledge of established programming procedures and programming languages.
Detailed knowledge of object oriented analysis and design.
Detailed knowledge of software development life cycle.
Detailed knowledge of current technological developments/trends.

WHY WORK FOR NIELSEN?

At Nielsen, we believe that career growth is a partnership. You ultimately own, fuel and set the journey. Your manager and others within the Nielsen community are here to help support and invest in your continuous growth.

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ABOUT NIELSEN

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