Scope/ General Profile
Responsible for ensuring the architecture, deployment and development standards are in place to build, maintain and support the development of all Nielsen Sports development work done in India. Working with the Director of Data Engineering to support people management responsibilities, this will include collaborating on local HR, salary and benefit fairness and leveling and team mobility.
Business Expertise
Ensuring all development work done by the teams in the reporting line is scalable to specified traffic levels, meets Nielsen Security standards and best industry practicesEnsuring development work is of a suitable standard based on the lifecycle and requirements of the product and customers they support. Ensuring that engineering teams support their components in development using appropriate monitoring and alerting techniques to quickly and efficiently resolve any issues in productionSupporting engineering teams as and when necessary to ensure the technical work necessary to maintain the platform is suitably prioritized by the product team with the value and need for the work sufficiently communicated.
Impact/Risk
Responsible for leading the Nielsen Sports Data Lake / Warehouse technical delivery as part of project lifecycle. This includes leading the development team based globally and collaborating with engineering managers and directors in multiple locations where the data platform has a dependency or is a dependency with other engineering teams.
Leadership
Leading a team of between 2 to 3 tech leads and their engineering teams and directly managing a team of individual software engineering contributors in India to deliver the engineering development and maintenance of components for Nielsen Sports roadmap. Helping to grow the skills and potentials of all of their reports, both leads and individual contributors to develop their career within Nielsen and the India tech hub.Ensuring all their reports are motivated and engaged in their work and supporting them Helping to grow the skills and potentials of all of their reports, both managers and individual contributors to develop their career within Nielsen and the India tech hub.Ensuring all their reports are motivated and engaged in their work and supporting them
Interpersonal Skills
Working with the Product, Programme, Commercial Directors, Operational Directors and manager stakeholder and team members to deliver the roadmap as prioritized for Nielsen Sports teams in India. Able to:Negotiate with stakeholders at director and management level over timelines and scope of product developCommunicate with VP and director level stakeholders on progress within the engineering teams in their report.