Senior Antibot Engineering Leader - Global R&D & Teams

NielsenIQ; San Sebastián de los Reyes; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 79,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working environment

Volunteer time off

Job summary

NIQ is seeking a Senior Manager, Antibot Engineering based in Spain to lead a distributed team across Western Europe and Algeria. You will shape the R&D roadmap, align with business priorities, and drive scalable, durable antibot solutions.

You will partner with Web Data Acquisition, Product, Engineering, and Operations, translating strategy into concrete delivery plans while developing talent and fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, web data acquisition, applied R&D, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead part of the global Antibot Engineering organization with ownership of people, delivery, and technical outcomes.
• Translate strategy into team objectives, priorities, roadmaps and execution plans.
• Balance retailer unblocking with long-term R&D projects.
• Provide visibility into retailer priorities, R&D progress, capacity, dependencies, risks and trade-offs.
• Lead, coach and develop engineering managers, technical leads, and engineers across distributed teams.
• Own the R&D roadmap for the assigned Antibot scope, and drive investments into reusable solutions.

Skills

Engineering leadership

People management

Stakeholder management

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Executive communication

Cross-country collaboration

English fluency

Tools

Cloud platforms

Observability

Automation

Job description

NIQ is seeking a Senior Manager, Antibot Engineering based in Spain to lead a distributed team across Western Europe and Algeria. You will shape the R&D roadmap, align with business priorities, and drive scalable, durable antibot solutions.

You will partner with Web Data Acquisition, Product, Engineering, and Operations, translating strategy into concrete delivery plans while developing talent and fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture.