Job Description

Principal engineer - Chennai REF19165A Our NielsenIQ Technology teams are working on our new Connect platform, a unified, global, open data ecosystem powered by Microsoft Azure. Our clients around the world rely on NielsenIQ\xe2\x80\x99s data and insights to innovate and grow. As a Platorm Architect in the architecture group, you will help define the architecture designs for platform components of the NIQ platforms that are strategically aligned to business strategy and objectives. The Tech Lead architect will partner with their architect peers and Tech lead counterparts in the development teams to take the architecture designs all the way to delivery. This role will grow into an end-to-end platform architect as the candidate gains more knowledge of NIQ\xe2\x80\x99s platform.
Responsibilities

• Help with architecture designs for key products on the NIQ platforms
• Produce high level approaches for platform components as needed to help component architects use as a blueprint for their low level designs. Many of these approaches will require an E2E understanding of the platform to ensure that they seamlessly fit in with future product and technology vision kept in focus.
• Create, maintain and promote reference architectures for the key areas of the platform. Architecture guidelines and standards to be documented and communicated to technology and product teams.
• Help assess new technologies that could be viable alternatives to existing platform selections to support front end applications, platform services and components along with the data pipelines and databases.
• Help identify future solutions and drive innovations through PoCs, technology migrations, and productization
• Responsible for innovating, evaluating, and promoting best architectural solutions for the NIQ platform.