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Software Specialist

  • Mumbai, India
  • IT development

Job description

Date: Sep 24, 2018

Location: Mumbai, IN

Company: Nielsen

Location: Mumbai, IN

Company: Nielsen

Gracenote is an entertainment data and technology provider powering the world's top music services, automakers, cable and satellite operators, and consumer electronics companies. At its core, Gracenote helps people find, discover and connect with the entertainment they love. Daily, Gracenote processes 35 billion rows of data and is quickly becoming a world-leader in return path “big data.” Over the past 3 years, the company has grown to more than 2000 employees in 17 countries, including over 600 of the world's top engineers with a passion for music, video, sports, and entertainment technology. Founded in 1998, Gracenote is one of America's most iconic and respected media companies.

Software Specialist (.Net dev)

Location: Mumbai

Department: Technology

Required Qualification: B.E. / B.Tech / BCA / MCA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.

Required Experience: 5+ Years

About Gracenote:

Gracenote is the top provider of entertainment information, creating industry-leading databases of TV, movie, and music metadata for entertainment guides, applications and in car entertainment. Our technology serves billions of requests daily to hundreds of millions of devices around the world. Our customers include innovators like Apple, Twitter, Google, Spotify, M-GO and Hulu, top consumer electronics and cable companies, as well as leading automotive manufacturers such as Ford and Toyota, throughout the US and the world. Simply put, data provides you with an opportunity to impact the evolution of the entire entertainment industry.

Please find below the Job Description:

Overall Responsibilities

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Understanding the company's key business objectives, evolving technology strategy and architecting enterprise wide solutions.

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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.

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Endeavors to minimize component complexity in the design and deployment of enterprise technology architecture through standards-based product(s) selection and implementation.

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Participate in the Architecture Review Board, providing technical guidance and design review / validation to strategic projects.

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Keeps abreast of technological changes and advancements; identifies opportunities to apply technology for competitive advantage.

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Mentors technology team members on capabilities and application of emerging technologies.

Key Competencies:

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Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns, distributed systems and relational database concepts.

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Technical expertise and extensive experience with Microsoft technology stack including C# / VB.NET / ASP.NET, WCF, MVC, SQL Server 2014/2012, VSS / TFS, Design Patterns, Entity Framework, etc. and ability to research and apply newer .NET technology towards development of large scale systems.

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Experience in latest client side technologies like Angular JS, Bootstrap JS, etc.

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Strong understanding of RDBMS (primarily SQL Server) concepts, inner workings and SQL development.

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Ability to work on all facets of building a highly scalable, resilient, secure, stable & high performing solution.

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Should have participated in, and be familiar with Agile project methodologies.

Desired Skills / Good to have:

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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.

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Working expertise on any NoSQL data stores viz. Key-Value stores (Redis, AWS DynamoDB) / Document DBs (MongoDB / Couchbase) / Columnar data stores (Cassandra).

Qualifications & Desired Characteristics:

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B.E. / B.Tech / BCA / MCA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.

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5+ years' experience in technology design & development with 2+ years' experience in architecting enterprise solutions.

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Proven ability to understand business objectives and translate into both conceptual architecture and project level deliverables.

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Excellent communication skills (written & verbal) to communicate directly with stakeholders.

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Should be a fast learner and have the ability to work in self-directed, fast-paced (nimble) environments.

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Work with vertical product teams across the globe and manage his/her own daily activities of issue resolution and communication across project execution teams.

About Nielsen:

Nielsen N.V. (NYSE: NLSN) is a global performance management company that provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers Watch and Buy. Nielsen's Watch segment provides media and advertising clients with Total Audience measurement services across all devices where content — video, audio, and text — is consumed. The Buy segment offers consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers the industry's only global view of retail performance measurement.

By integrating information from its Watch and Buy segments and other data sources, Nielsen provides its clients with both world-class measurement as well as analytics that help improve performance. Nielsen, an S&P 500 company, has operations in over 100 countries that cover more than 90 percent of the world's population. For more information, visit www.nielsen.com

Nielsen is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.

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