Principal Engineer – CPS DataValidation Platform (OmniShopper & Homescan)

Platform Ownership & Production Leadership 

• Own the overall health reliability performance and scalability of the DataValidation platform. 

• Serve as the primary engineering escalation point for production incidents and business-critical issues. 

• Lead incident management root cause analysis and post-incident remediation activities. 

• Drive improvements in observability monitoring alerting and operational excellence. 

• Establish and maintain operational KPIs SLAs and platform health metrics. 

Technical Leadership 

• Define and execute the technical strategy and roadmap for the DataValidation platform. 

• Participate to architecture decisions across both on-premise and Azure-based systems. 

• Ensure solutions are scalable maintainable secure and cost-effective. 

• Review system designs and provide technical guidance to development teams. 

• Balance technical debt reduction with business delivery commitments. 

• Act as the engineering lead for strategic OmniShopper initiatives. 

• Collaborate with Product Leadership and PMO to define technical solutions supporting business objectives. 

• Coordinate execution across multiple engineering and business teams. 

• Ensure DataValidation capabilities align with future OmniShopper and Homescan requirements. 

Cross-Functional Collaboration 

Partner closely with: 

• Data Science teams 

• PMO 

• Operations teams 

• Product Leadership 

• Global Engineering teams 

Responsibilities include: 

• Translating business requirements into technical solutions. 

• Managing technical risks and dependencies. 

• Driving prioritization discussions. 

• Communicating platform health and roadmap updates to stakeholders. 

• Influencing decision-making without direct authority. 

Qualifications :

Experience 

• 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. 

• Experience supporting enterprise-scale data platforms. 

• Proven success influencing multiple organizations and stakeholders. 

Technical Skills 

Strong hands-on experience with: 

• Python 

• Oracle Database 

• Linux environments 

• SQL performance tuning 

• Azure Data Services 

• PySpark 

• Parquet datasets 

• ETL and data engineering frameworks 

• Data quality and validation platforms 

Leadership Skills 

• Strong stakeholder management skills. 

• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical audiences. 

• Ability to work effectively across global teams. 

• Strong ownership mindset and bias for action. 

• Experience leading complex incident resolution efforts. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Retail measurement consumer panel or syndicated data domain experience. 

• Experience working with OmniShopper Homescan or similar consumer analytics platforms. 

• Experience working with Data Science and advanced analytics teams. 

• Knowledge of modern data quality governance and observability frameworks. 

Additional Information :

Our Benefits

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

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