Principal Engineer

As a Principal Engineer in CPS Engineering you will be a senior technical expert & SME driving automation innovation development and delivery of highscale dataintensive applications. You will play a key role in shaping technology selection best practices automation and DevSecOps adoption while ensuring efficient and scalable solutions.

Our technology stack includes C Java Spring Boot Oracle PostgreSQL Databricks Snowflake and both Onprem and cloudnative solutions. You will help enhance our platform by identifying automation and quality improvement opportunities optimizing and standardizing development workflows and improving system efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

Technology Innovation & Development

• Contribute to the design development and optimization of highvolume data processing applications.
• Research and adopt emerging technologies ensuring continuous improvement in performance scalability observability and maintainability.
• Drive best coding practices development standards and automation strategies to enhance product quality.
• Collaborate with engineers to develop modular reusable and welldocumented code.
• Lead proofofconcepts (PoCs) to validate new tools frameworks and methodologies.

Delivery &

• Play a handson role in developing critical components and features.
• Optimize data pipelines APIs and microservices for high efficiency and reliability.
• Ensure the integration and deployment of solutions through CI/CD pipelines and cloud automation.
• Work closely with QA DevSecOps and Infrastructure teams to streamline deployment processes.
• Participate in code reviews performance tuning and debugging to maintain high system reliability.

Collaboration & Technical Leadership

• Act as a goto expert in the CPS Input Development team driving best practices and engineering excellence.
• Work with crossfunctional teams including Product Data Science DevOps and infra to align technology with business needs.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior and midlevel engineers.
• Champion a culture of continuous learning innovation and collaboration within the engineering team.

Qualifications :

• 1015 years of experience in software development technology innovation and largescale system design.
• Expertise in FMCG Domain and CPS engineering concepts practices and processes.
• Strong programming expertise in Java C Python.
• Handson experience with databases: Oracle Snowflake.
• Proficiency in big data processing: Hive.
• Experience in DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines and automation tools: Github.
• Knowledge of frontend technologies: Angular.
• Experience working in hybrid cloud environments (Azure experience preferred).
• Handson knowledge of Linux and Shell scripting.
• Experience in containerization Docker Kubernetes)
• Exposure to data streaming caching and eventdriven architectures Kafka).
• Strong problemsolving skills with a passion for building highperformance scalable solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across teams.
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field

Additional Information :

• Enjoy a flexible and rewarding work environment with peertopeer recognition platforms.
• Recharge and revitalize with help of wellness plans made for you and your family.
• Plan your future with financial wellness tools.
• Stay relevant and upskill yourself with career development opportunities.

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• EmployeeAssistanceProgram (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the worlds leading consumer intelligence company delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023 NIQ combined with GfK bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insightsdelivered with advanced analytics through stateoftheart platformsNIQ delivers the Full View. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100 markets covering more than 90 of the worlds population.

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