NielsenIQ

Principal Engineer – CPS DataValidation Platform (OmniShopper & Homescan)

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4 hours ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own the overall health, reliability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence of the CPS DataValidation platform.
  • Serve as the primary engineering escalation point for production incidents and business-critical issues.
  • Lead incident management, root cause analysis, post-incident remediation, and complex incident resolution efforts.
  • Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, operational KPIs, SLAs, and platform health metrics.
  • Define and execute the technical strategy and roadmap for the DataValidation platform across on-premise and Azure environments.
  • Make architecture decisions, review system designs, provide technical guidance, and balance technical debt reduction with business delivery.
  • Act as engineering lead for strategic OmniShopper initiatives and translate business requirements into technical solutions.
  • Coordinate execution across engineering and business teams while managing technical risks, dependencies, and prioritization.
  • Communicate platform health and roadmap updates to technical and non-technical stakeholders and influence decisions without direct authority.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience.
  • 5+ years in Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Architect, or equivalent technical leadership roles.
  • Experience owning mission-critical production systems and supporting enterprise-scale data platforms.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Python, Oracle Database, Linux environments, SQL performance tuning, Azure Data Services, PySpark, Parquet datasets, ETL and data engineering frameworks, and data quality and validation platforms.
  • Proven ability to influence multiple organizations and stakeholders and work effectively across global teams.
  • Strong stakeholder management, communication, ownership, and complex incident resolution skills.
  • Preferred: retail measurement, consumer panel, syndicated data, OmniShopper, Homescan, consumer analytics, Data Science, advanced analytics, data quality, governance, or observability experience.

Benefits

  • Flexible working environment.
  • Volunteer time off.
  • LinkedIn Learning.
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

Tech Stack

AzureLinuxOracle DatabasePythonSQL

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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