KANTAR Hiring for Senior System Support Developer Job at London, England Full Time

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Job Details

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 25,000 people based in more than 100 countries help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow. Nobody knows people better than Kantar. We provide insight and inspiration to help our clients, our people and society to create and flourish in an extraordinary world.

Kantar are undergoing the largest Tech transformation our $7.5bn business has seen, allowing

us to become a leading global Data / Analytics powerhouse, suppling giants such as Google

and Unilever with cutting edge insights into the behaviour of their customers.

Since being acquired by Bain Capital in December 2019 we have been mapping out how to

realise this vision, by expanding, upgrading and evolving our Tech Platforms and Infrastructure.

We are Cloud Native (Azure) and are modernising and integrating all of our tech stacks to

allow us to provide a swifter and more automated response to our client’s needs.

For this we need some of the best minds in Tech and DevOps to help us solve problems for the

long term, with the freedom to take measured risk with innovative solutions. From the top down,

our global tech community is truly collaborative and supportive, with excellent training resources to

ensure you are coached and guided to improve your skills, so you continue to grow as we do.

Job Title: Senior System Support Developer

Location: London based (flexible on remote working)

Salary: Competitive

Full time/Permanent

JOB PURPOSE

The System Support Developer will report directly into the integration manager and will be responsible for Application development/enhancement for Kantar Marketing Panels, including shopping, non-foods, usage and consumer viewing/internet behaviour. The position will have primary responsibility for the Software development for medium to large scale deliverables as projects.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Commitment to working closely with Project Sponsors, providing continuous feedback.
• Attendance of Project Huddles and contribution to the on-going work streams, including updates and advice to aid the effective running of a project.
• Agile working utilising Scrum – sprints, Kanban
• Highlighting bottleneck issues around the project plan to both Project Sponsor and Implementation Manager.
• Communication of tasked work to Implementation Manager, aiding the tracking and project planning process.
• Work to plan, showing focus to delivering the task to time.
• Documentation of developed solutions and implementations to team standards.
• Subject Matter Expert focused shadowing, aiding panel business rules knowledge transfer.
• Knowledge share, both as a recipient and also planning of knowledge share to others.
• Working alongside Implementation Manager to assist with day to day duties, including offering advice, assistance with planning and meeting delegation.
• Responsible handling and leadership, when exposed to critical support issues acting as a Subject Matter Expert.
• Collaboration with peers working on same work stream / project.
• Assistance with Database Administration for each service database.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR…

• Focus and direction when under pressure, particularly for critical support issues.
• Initiative and drive to run with tasks in Implementation Managers absence.
• Demonstrating a positive attitude, engendering a focused Operations team ethic.
• Consistently operates calmly and demonstrates a positive attitude at all times working to a tight deadline.
• Regularly enabling the progression of the aims of the team and the business.
• Demonstrate knowledge skills by offering consultancy and viewpoints that will help the business.
• Proactive collaboration with communication to all stake holder teams to achieve specific goals.
• Suggest an alternative approach if something is not working or to improve process efficiency.

DESIRABLE TECH STACK

• Linux – shell
• Python
• C#
• HTML, CSS
• Node.js (Javascript)
• MySQL – SQL, PL/SQL
• Microsoft Azure
• Unix Shell

ADDITIONAL SKILLS OF RELEVANCE

• COBOL
• Database Administration

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Location

London, WestgateUnited Kingdom

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.