Platform Lead for DataValidation & Production Reliability

NielsenIQ; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working environment

Volunteer time off

LinkedIn Learning

Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

Job summary

NIQ seeks a highly experienced Principal Engineer to provide technical leadership and operational ownership for the CPS DataValidation platform, supporting OmniShopper and Homescan solutions. This role serves as the primary technical contact for production support, platform reliability, and strategic initiatives.

The successful candidate will drive modernization across a hybrid ecosystem spanning on-premise and Azure platforms while partnering with Data Science, PMO, Operations, Product

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years in Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Architect, or equivalent technical leadership roles.
• Experience owning mission-critical production systems.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale data platforms.
• Proven success influencing multiple organizations and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall health, reliability, performance, and scalability of the DataValidation platform.
• Serve as the primary engineering escalation point for production incidents and business-critical issues.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and post-incident remediation activities.
• Drive improvements in observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational excellence.
• Establish and maintain operational KPIs, SLAs, and platform health metrics.
• Define and execute the technical strategy and roadmap for the DataValidation platform.
• Participate to architecture decisions across both on-premise and Azure-based systems.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and cost-effective.
• Review system designs and provide technical guidance to development teams.
• Balance technical debt reduction with business delivery commitments.
• Act as the engineering lead for strategic OmniShopper initiatives.
• Collaborate with Product Leadership and PMO to define technical solutions supporting business objectives.

Skills

Python

Oracle Database

Linux environments

SQL performance tuning

Azure Data Services

PySpark

Parquet datasets

ETL and data engineering frameworks

Data quality and validation

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Tools

Azure Data Services

Oracle Database

Python

Job description

NIQ seeks a highly experienced Principal Engineer to provide technical leadership and operational ownership for the CPS DataValidation platform, supporting OmniShopper and Homescan solutions. This role serves as the primary technical contact for production support, platform reliability, and strategic initiatives.

The successful candidate will drive modernization across a hybrid ecosystem spanning on-premise and Azure platforms while partnering with Data Science, PMO, Operations, Product