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Nielsen Media would not function without our Technology teams! We are catalysts for delivery quality, on-time, reliable measurements to clients, and we are cultivators, growing our employees through education, skill-building, and experiences. Around the globe, our Technology teams are relentless in our pursuit of superior analytics, technology, process, and support.

About this job

As a member of this dynamic and fast-paced team, you will be involved in the evolving technology strategy architecting enterprise-wide solutions.

Responsibilities

• Understanding the company's key business objectives, evolving technology strategy, and architecting enterprise-wide solutions.
• Contribute to the development and evolution of the portfolio of reference architectural strategy including development models, frameworks, reusable assets, design strategy (e.g. management, integration, and optimization), and apply to ongoing projects and initiatives.
• Endeavors to minimize component complexity in the design and deployment of enterprise technology architecture through standards-based product(s) selection and implementation.
• Participate in the Architecture Review Board, providing technical thought and design review/validation to strategic projects.
• Keeps abreast of technological changes and advancements; identifies opportunities to apply technology for competitive advantage.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns, distributed systems, and relational database concepts.
• Good to have Technical expertise and experience with Microsoft technology stack including C# / ASP.NET, WCF, MVC, MS SQL Server, VSS / TFS, Git, Design Patterns, Entity Framework, Solr, etc. and ability to research and apply newer .NET technology towards the development of large scale systems.
• Good to have an understanding of RDBMS (primarily SQL Server) concepts, inner workings, and SQL development.
• Working knowledge of MVC is good to have.
• Ability to work on all facets of building a highly scalable, resilient, secure, stable & high-performing solution.
• Should have participated in and been familiar with Agile project methodologies.

Qualifications

• B.E. / B.Tech / BCA / MCA in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.
• 0– 1.5 years experience in technology design & development with experience in architecting enterprise solutions.
• Proven ability to understand business objectives and translate them into both conceptual architecture and project-level deliverables.
• Excellent communication skills (written & verbal) to communicate directly with stakeholders.
• Should be a fast learner and have the ability to work in self-directed, fast-paced (nimble) environments.
• Work with vertical product teams across the globe and manage/her daily activities of issue resolution and communication across project execution teams.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience in working on public cloud environments like AWS, Azure w.r.t. solutions development, deployment & adoption of cloud-based technology components like IaaS / PaaS offerings.
• Working expertise on any NoSQL data stores viz. Key-Value stores (Redis, AWS DynamoDB) / Document DBs (MongoDB / Couchbase) / Columnar data stores (Cassandra).