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

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. Our Insights colleagues are experts in human understanding. With expertise covering brand, innovation, creative, media, commerce and customer experience, they help clients define what brands should stand for, how to disrupt and renew their offer, how to connect with audiences and how to win with consumers and customers.

We are looking for a dedicated Engineering Manager to join our engineering community. Together you are building, enhancing and supporting the next generation of our platform. This role is perfect for software development managers or highly experienced software engineers with a desire to move into a servant-leadership role.

As an Engineering Manager, you will manage, mentor and lead a team of software engineers, ensuring that they can do their very best work. Your role is support and champion the team, ensure they keep learning and improving, and that they are highly engaged! You will ensure their code is first-class and that their designs and solutions are both elegant and simple. We will not compromise on security or quality, and you will help ensure this.

Job Goals

• Build, lead and support a team of highly engaged and motivated software engineers

• Create a team environment which is open and transparent and in which everyone shares accountability for delivery

• Understand the overall roadmap and strategic direction; clarify and contribute to these; look for opportunities to innovate

• Be the domain expert for the systems your team is building and use your experience to inform strategy, as well as support your own team

• Guide the planning processes for your team so that code can be delivered frequently with value released each time

• Ensure all code meets quality standards and has excellent levels of test coverage, so that it can be deployed to production multiple times per day

• Work with your team, product owners, architects and others to build the software required to meet all functional and non-functional requirements

• Drive innovation and learning, look for ways to build simple, elegant solutions

• Act as team coordinator and guarantee all SCRUM ceremonies are properly mediated

• Track appropriate metrics and objectives for your team; use this insight to plan and deliver improvements

• Seek opportunities to share learning with other teams and stakeholders across the organization

• Mentor the whole team – ensure everyone has clear objectives and development plans

• Manage performance proactively, provide clear feedback whilst being an active listener

• Work across teams to lead dependencies and ensure teams can collaborate effectively

• Provide technical guidance for your technology scope, ensuring any issues can be resolved according to the established SLAs

• Proactively manage risk and technical debt to ensure our systems remain healthy, easy to work on and fully compliant with relevant standards

• Be a continual learner and nurture a growth mindset among your team

Ideal Skills & Capabilities

• This role is ideal for experienced software development managers or senior/lead software engineers who want to move into a line-management role

• Previous experience managing agile development teams OR 2-4 years’ experience as a team technical lead

• Good understanding of object-orientated programming mainly in Microsoft .Net Core, C# and realted technologies

• Experience in web application development and designing cloud solutions with Azure or similar enterprise Cloud solution such as AWS is highly desirable

• Good understanding of front-end development using technologies such as Angular, React, TypeScript, Node JS, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML5, CSS 3.0. Materialize and bootstrap frameworks is a plus

• Proficiency in Synchronous/Asynchronous communication via Web APIs or Messaging frameworks

• Solid understanding of object-oriented software development concepts, SOLID principles and design patterns

• Practical understanding of cyber security threats and secure coding practices

• Experience working with SQL Databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL or Postgres in constructing complex queries and stored procedures.

• Experience in No-SQL databases is a plus

• Experience with RESt microservices, Docker and Azure

• Proficiency on Git or similar Source Control systems

• Understanding on container-based development such as Docker is a plus

• Great interpersonal and communications skills to be part of a team spread over multiple locations

• Excellent time management and teamwork skills

• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making abilities

• Ability to document and provide knowledge transfer materials for work completed

• Experience in creating and communicating reports to leadership

• BSc in Computer Science or any IT degree

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 Insights division, the masters of using data to resolve challenges. They help brands define what they should stand for, how to reinvent and renew their offer, how to better reach audiences, and how to win with consumers. By blending human insights expertise with the latest technology advances, Insights make sure we can deliver innovative information to brands everywhere.

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.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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