Senior Data Engineer

We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

Kantar’s Profiles division is home to the world’s largest audience network.

With access to 170m+ people in over 100 global markets, we offer unrivalled global reach with local relevancy. Validated by industry leading anti-fraud technology, Kantar’s Profiles Audience Network delivers the most meaningful data with consistency, accuracy, and accountability – all at speed and scale.

Job Details

We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

About the job

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our data ecosystem and driving actionable insights. Your expertise will be crucial in building and maintaining robust data infrastructure, scalable pipelines, and seamless integrations that empower our Business Data Science initiatives. By streamlining workflows and ensuring efficient data management, you will directly impact decision-making and innovation across the organization.

Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you will develop APIs, implement ML/AI best practices, and enable the deployment and monitoring of advanced models. Your work will strengthen the foundation of our data-driven strategy, fostering collaboration and creating value for both internal teams and external stakeholders! This is an opportunity to redefine how data drives our success and growth.

Job Goals

• Develop and maintain data pipelines that efficiently process and transform production data into formats suitable for analytics and machine learning applications.

• Design and optimize scalable databases and implement robust infrastructure solutions to support real-time data integrity and model performance monitoring.

• Collaborate with data scientists to deploy machine learning models into production, ensuring automated training, evaluation, and deployment workflows are in place.

• Create and enhance RESTful APIs using FastAPI to securely and efficiently expose data and model predictions to relevant teams and services.

• Foster collaboration with cross-functional teams by aligning technical solutions with business objectives, while implementing best practices and infrastructure as code for automation.

Ideal Skills & Capabilities

• Python Expertise: Strong programming skills, especially in Python, for developing scalable APIs and data pipelines.

• Database Proficiency: Advanced knowledge of SQL databases and optimization techniques to support real-time analytics.

• Cloud Technologies: Hands-on experience with AWS or Azure for deploying and managing data infrastructure.

• AI/ML Integration: Practical experience in deploying, monitoring, and automating the lifecycle of machine learning models.

• Infrastructure as Code: Skilled in tools like Terraform, GitHub Actions, or CloudFormation for automating deployment workflows and ensuring system reliability.

What’s in it for you

On top of all your normal benefits like holiday, meal cards and life assurance, we also offer:

• Five days of Life Leave per year; for those days when life just…gets in the way.

• Birthday leave – one extra day of holiday taken on the nearest workday to your birthday

• Two days a year to give back and volunteer with an organisation of your choice.

• Enhanced primary and secondary carer leave for however you choose to grow your family.

• The chance to hit the beach on your lunch break (yes, we have somewhere you can store your surfboard!)

Please be aware, the majority of our roles are hybrid, working three days a week in our office.

We’re not able to offer visa sponsorship or help with relocation support for this role. Please make sure you’ve got the right to work in the country where this role is located before applying.

What part of Kantar might I be joining?

You’ll be joining our Profiles division, home to specialists in survey design, sampling and data science. With the world’s largest audience network (over 170 million people), we’re trusted by many of the worlds leading brands to provide amazing insights from real people.

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding pe