Job Description

Company Description
NIQ is the world's 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 insights--delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms--NIQ delivers the Full View(TM). NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world's population.

Job Title- Associate Software Engineer
Location- Chennai
Pls note: Candidates must have at least 6 months of full-time, strong hands-on experience in Python, PySpark, snowflake and cloud technologies.

• As a Data Engineer, you are responsible to write code that reads the data from different sources like hive, snowflake, Azure etc. and transform the data using Python and Shell Script.
• Responsible to write code logic for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources using Snowflake, Azure, Databricks and SQL technologies.
• Responsible to write Python code with proper unit test cases and follow the SonarQube standards
• Application is built on top of Python, SQL tech stack. So, Engineer should have a strong technical expertise on Python, SQL.
• Application involves loading data from Azure using pyspark and run through multiple math logics to transform the data.
• Responsibilities include to identify, design and implement different optimization techniques to improve the cloud compute cost and automating manual processes in E2E Pipeline.
• We follow CI/CD in everything that we develop.
• Experience on Spark, Parquet, Hive is not mandatory but considered a plus.

Qualifications
Must Have Skills

• A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related field
• 1-2 years of software development experience on Bigdata tech stack.
• Strong knowledge of python, SQL.
• Good knowledge on Shell Scripting
• Good knowledge and experience Snowflake, Spark.
• Good knowledge and experience with SQL, Parquet, Hive.
• Good knowledge on Datawarehouse and ETL Process
• Good knowledge on GitHub Actions, AKS, Docker, Jenkins
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Additional Information

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

Our Benefits

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

About NIQ
NIQ is the world's 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 insights--delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms--NIQ delivers the Full View(TM). NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world's population.
For more information, visit NIQ.com
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