Total 15 job vacancies by NielsenIQ

Principal Software Engineer, Pune

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who defines and drives the technical strategy for large‑scale, distributed, and cloud‑native systems. This role operates at a company and platform level, designing foundational architectures, enforcing engineering standards, and leading complex technical transformations that impact multiple teams and products.

You will act as a technical authority and architect, balancing short‑term delivery needs with long‑term scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency. This role requires deep hands‑on expertise in Java, Python, SQL, distributed systems, cloud platforms, and modern DevSecOps practices, along with the ability to guide teams in AI‑driven development and generative tooling adoption.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the technical strategy for large‑scale, distributed, and high‑availability systems
• Design foundational platforms, frameworks, and shared services that impact multiple teams
• Lead architectural transformations for legacy systems and large‑scale applications
• Drive system‑wide decisions with a strong focus on scalability, performance, resilience, security, and maintainability
• Translate ambiguous business requirements into robust, future‑proof technical architectures
  
  Platform Governance & Engineering Standards
•  Develop and enforce governance policies for APIs, security, cloud infrastructure, and system integrations
• Define company‑wide best practices for engineering quality, reliability, observability, and efficiency
• Establish architectural guardrails to ensure consistent design and implementation across teams
• Drive adoption of security, compliance, and infrastructure automation best practices
  
  Cloud, DevSecOps & Cost Optimization
•  Establish strategies for cost‑efficient cloud resource utilization, scaling, and performance optimization
• Architect standardized CI/CD frameworks used across multiple teams
• Define DevSecOps guardrails ensuring secure, compliant, and consistent delivery pipelines at scale
• Champion Infrastructure‑as‑Code, automation, and operational excellence
  Data, Streaming & Distributed Systems
•  Provide technical leadership in large‑scale data processing, streaming architectures, and messaging systems
• Design and evolve systems using Kafka, queues, async processing, and event‑driven patterns
• Guide teams on concurrency, fault tolerance, back‑pressure handling, and system resilience
  
  AI & Engineering Innovation
•  Guide teams in AI‑driven development practices, including the responsible use of Generative AI tooling
• Evaluate AI and GenAI technologies for quality, scalability, security, and real business value
• Design and integrate AI/ML capabilities into systems from a platform and application engineering perspective
• Champion innovations that improve developer productivity, automation, and engineering efficiency
  Technical Leadership & Collaboration
•  Act as a technical mentor and design authority for senior and mid‑level engineers
• Engage in deep technical problem‑solving, influencing system‑wide technical decisions
• Collaborate closely with Product, Security, Operations, and Platform teams
• Lead by example through hands‑on design reviews, architectural guidance, and complex issue resolution
  
  Required Technical Skills: Core Engineering 
•  Java (Spring Boot, REST, Microservices, JVM internals)
• Python (core Python, scripting, automation, data processing)
• SQL (advanced querying, schema design, performance tuning)
• Strong knowledge of Data Structures, Algorithms, and System Design
• Scripting languages (Shell, Bash, or similar)
  
  Systems & Platforms
• Distributed systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, scalability patterns
• Cloud platforms (Azure / AWS / GCP) and cloud‑native architectures
• Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• CI/CD, DevSecOps, Infrastructure‑as‑Code
• Messaging and streaming systems (Kafka, event‑driven architectures)
  
  AI / Data (Working Knowledge)
• Experience integrating AI/ML or GenAI APIs into production systems
• Understanding of data pipelines, model deployment, and operational AI concerns
• Ability to assess where AI adds value versus unnecessary complexity

Senior Engineer, Cyber – Product Security

NielsenIQ is maturing its Application Security programs and is recruiting an Application Security Engineer who will be responsible for supporting the rollout of DevSecOps capabilities and practises across all geographies and business units.  

As the Application Security Engineer, you will be responsible for integration, maintenance and analyses of the tools and technologies used in securing NIQ products/application throughout their development. You will oversee application security capabilities within a multi-national matrixed environment. The application security engineer will have the opportunity to replace the current Static and Dynamic Application Security Tool and advocate for the tech stack used for monitoring. 

This position will involve working closely with development/engineering teams, business units, technical and non-technical stakeholders, educating them and driving the adoption and maturity of the NIQ’s Product & Application Security programs. 

Responsibilities  

• Collaborate within Product Security Engineering and Cybersecurity teams to support delivery of its strategic initiatives. 
• Work with engineering teams (Developers, SREs & QAs) to ensure that products are secure on delivery and implement provided security capabilities. 
• Actively contribute to building and maintaining Product Security team security tools and services, including integrations security tools in the CI/CD process 
• Report on security key performance indicators (KPIs) to drive improvements across engineering teams’ security posture. 
• Contribute to Product Security Engineering team security education program and become an advocate within the organization’s DevSecOps and application security community of practice. 
• Review IaaS / PaaS architecture roadmaps for the cloud to and recommend baseline security controls and hardening requirements, supporting threat modelling of NIQ’s products. 

Position Summary:

The Finance Planning and Analyst (FP&A) at NielsenIQ is a key member of the FP&A Hub team, responsible for supporting the local team in managing financial planning processes. This role involves integrating and developing financial processes that align with both revenue and expense goals, participating in strategic planning, and contributing to global and local strategies. The FP&A team is a dynamic group of young professionals eager to learn, collaborate, and add value to the company. The successful candidate will demonstrate proactive collaboration with peers and leaders and contribute their analytical expertise to drive financial success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Revenue Management and Forecasting: Support local countries' client teams with revenue management and forecasting, including managing weekly pacing updates.
• Variance Analysis: Contribute to monthly variance analysis to identify and explain financial performance deviations.
• SIP Payment Review: Ensure SIP payment information aligns with agreed-upon data.
• Expense Budget Management: Manage expense budgets and ensure leaders remain on plan.
• Headcount Forecasting: Prepare and track headcount forecast dashboards.
• Strategic Planning: Meaningfully contribute to the preparation of the Three-Year Plan, Annual Operating Budget, and Quarterly targets.
• P&L Reporting: Consolidate, analyze, and report P&L, including commercial and PTO expenses.
• Reporting and Analysis: Prepare reports and crib notes for quarterly Op Reviews and F Cycles.
• Special Projects: Support special projects to drive exceptional revenue growth across the LATAM and Global teams.
• Financial Process Integration: Develop and implement financial processes that meet revenue and expense needs, ensuring alignment with global and local strategies.
• Collaboration: Work closely with peers, leaders, and other functional areas to gather necessary data and provide financial insights.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvements and efficiencies within financial planning and analysis activities.
• Compliance: Ensure all financial activities comply with internal policies and external regulations.

ABOUT THIS JOB

NielsenIQ’s Corporate Audit Staff (CAS) is a fast-paced, dynamic, and highly-selective team. CAS serves not only as an independent internal audit function, but also as a leadership development program.  CAS provides objective assurance over NIQ's reported financials and has reporting accountability to NIQ's management team, Audit Committee, and External Audit partner.  As NIQ is a global enterprise, CAS has audit responsibilities over 70+ countries. The team is geographically dispersed, but is tight-knit and mobile. In addition to audit work, CAS engages in projects that support process improvement and critical strategic initiatives.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Evaluate the effectiveness of internal controls by performing audits. This includes planning, scoping, hands on field work, and drafting audit reports
• Identify control deficiencies, inconsistencies, and/or incidents of fraud or misconduct
• Present findings/recommendations to senior leaders. Partner with the business to develop remediation plans and support best practice sharing
• Provide independent assurance on business compliance with policy, governance, and internal controls
• Contribute to the development of audit process improvements, including the development of automated routines
• Embrace an analytical mindset to help identify and assess business risks
• Have strong communication and relationship-building skills
• Domestic and international travel is required (30-50%)

Associate Tech Support Specialist (End-user L1 Support)

Workstation Operations - Enterprise IT

Responsibilities:

• The ideal candidate will provide computer technical support to maintain, analyze, troubleshoot, and restore computer and information systems to an operational status within the Niq end user community.
• Responsible for the IT on-boarding process including preparation of IT kit and delivering a good experience for new joiners at the Tech Cafe
• Provides on-site technical support by performing installation, repair, and preventative maintenance of workstations and related software/hardware.
• Troubleshoots L1 software and hardware failures and skills acquired during training to return equipment to operational status within agreed upon Service Level Agreement parameters.
• Interacts daily with supervisor, peer groups and customers in order to manage workflow in a timely and professional manner.
• Supports and maintains user account information including administration rights and relevant updates to Service Now ticketing system to include accurate tracking of all physical workstations as per the asset management compliance requirements.
• Apply previous learnings, maintain certifications, and demonstrate willingness to adapt new technology solutions.  
• Ensure any end user issues are handled expeditiously and that all proper ticket and issue documentation is completed

Soft skills and Professionalism

• Ability to communicate effectively
• Can adapt to change and new ideas or ways of working
• Exhibits empathy when partnering with internal and external stakeholders
• Maintain an enthusiastic attitude and willingness to assist users at all times
• Always ensure that conversations/discussions with end users are professional and focused on issues related to business and technology support
• Always ask for assistance when unsure of how to address a situation and lean on the team for support and additional training when needed 
• Demonstrated ability to communicate or escalate situations which cannot be resolved quickly or are likely to be escalated
• Show initiative and follow through to completion of assigned tasks
• Respond timely to requests for assistance and confirm completion
• Respond positively to coaching and show improvement in areas requiring additional training or feedback

Responsibilities
• Responsible for month-end close activities, account reconciliations, Preparing & posting of Journals, and allocations,
•  Preparing reconciliations of balance sheet accounts, investigating, and resolving discrepancies as needed,
• Fixed assets (Leases & Intangibles) accounting and reconciliations,
• Posting Bank related Journals, making reconciliations and preparing various reports,
• Review of P2P & O2C accounting, Reconciliations, Journals, and other quality metrices,
• Preparing the financial statements in accordance with local reporting requirements (IFRS/ US GAAP),
• Ensure that country level reporting packs are submitted to the consolidation team on or before the stipulated time with good quality,
• Providing support to the countries for the quality submission of the Reporting pack
• Ensure all the intercompany transactions are eliminated,
• Process intercompany cost allocations and to ensure that all the approved contracts are processed with efficiency and accuracy,
• Preparing intercompany aging report and circulating to the stakeholders,
• Submit the consolidated financials after all eliminations and checks with the corporate team,
• Collecting / Creating the back-up for the all the topside Journals posted,
• Perform checks on the investment that we reported in our books is in line with the audited financials of associates and JVs,
• Support external and internal audits with supporting documentation, archive retrieval, journal walk throughs, and other audit requirements under the supervision of the Operational Controller,
• Maintain internal process documentation to reflect the most up-to-date ways of work,
• Ensure standard operating procedures are operationalized and consistent in both content and format with expectations laid out by Global Financial Controlling,
• Work with Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Business Finance (FP&A), treasury, Banking and other teams internally on processes and systems,
• Provide support to internal audit for internal control or audit purposes.

A Little bit about you
A Successful Sr. Analyst will achieve a balanced co-ordination and seamless execution of all R2R, intercompany, financial statements preparation activities including group consolidation. He/she will have delivered on all process governance and dashboard. S/he will have met or exceeded expectations of all related metrics / dashboard and ensure solid controls are in place to provide quality pack to the corporate.

Position Summary
The P2P Associate is responsible for executing day-to-day invoice processing & payment activities with accuracy and timeliness, following defined SOPs and internal controls within the Accounts Payable function.

Key Responsibilities

• Process PO and Non-PO invoices in ERP systems (e.g., SAP)
• Perform basic 3-way matching (PO, invoice, GR)
• Validate invoice details including tax, coding, and approvals
• Route invoices for approval and follow up on pending items
• Maintain accurate documentation and audit trail
• Monitor assigned queues and ensure SLA adherence
• Prepare payment proposals and manage bank uploads
• Escalate exceptions or complex discrepancies
• Perform vendor & GR/IR reconciliations
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders for smooth P2P operations
• Review monthly statements and follow up on pending items

Software Engineer with Java/Sprint boot, ETL (SQL, Python, ETL)

Job Summary We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer with strong backend development experience to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have a solid foundation in Java-based technologies, database systems, cloud platforms, and modern DevOps practices. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, high performance applications while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to solve complex business and technical challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance software applications.
• Build and maintain backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
• Design and optimize database schemas and queries using SQL and PostgreSQL.
• Develop and support ETL pipelines for data ingestion, transformation, and processing.
• Implement and maintain search and analytics capabilities using Elasticsearch.
• Work with cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP acceptable) to deploy and manage applications.
• Implement and enhance CI/CD pipelines to ensure efficient and reliable software delivery.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following best practices.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex technical issues in production and non production environments. |
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, QA, and other engineers to deliver high quality solutions.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving coding standards and engineering practices.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt new technologies, tools, and frameworks as needed.
• Take ownership of assigned modules and drive them end-to-end.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong proficiency in Java and Spring Boot.
• Excellent knowledge of SQL and relational databases, especially PostgreSQL.
• Hands-on experience with ETL processes and data pipelines.
• Experience working with Elasticsearch for search, logging, or analytics use cases.
• Solid understanding of cloud computing concepts; hands-on experience with Azure is highly preferred.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Good understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, and distributed systems.
• Experience with version control systems (Git).

Non-Technical & Soft Skills
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to handle complex challenges.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• A can-do attitude with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Willingness and enthusiasm to learn new technologies and adapt to changing requirements.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• Proactive mindset with attention to detail and quality.

Good to Have (Added Value)
• Experience with system design and performance optimization.
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Exposure to monitoring, logging, and observability tools.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.
• Understanding of security best practices for application development.