Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer
Alfena
Alfena, Porto District, Portugal

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About the job

Kantar, the leading provider of media analytics and marketing accountability solutions for brand marketers, is eager to engage with an experienced, creative, hardworking, and
- motivated Principal Software Engineer (. NET Developer)

Kantar delivers comprehensive digital solutions to help advertisers, agencies and publishers increase marketing effectiveness and drive brand growth. Integrated behavioral and attitudinal solutions help marketers identify, understand and engage consumers, plan and optimize media and increase total brand performance. Kantar operates within North America and is part of WPP's data investment management division.

Job Goals

• Support, develop, and maintain applications using Microsoft. Net/C# and supporting technologies

• Work closely with the Quality Assurance group to assist in developing test plans and scripts or even perform testing on applications

• Assess and troubleshoot reported application defects and issues while identifying false positives and operator errors

• Closely Follow standard agile development best practices and standards

• Provide
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  - database support for DBAs and collaborate on optimizing application query performance

• Work closely and diligently with the product development team to resolve bugs and defects relating to our applications

• Follow, support and optimize the Kantar Ignite processes and supporting applications

• Provide guidance and estimates for project development efforts

• Work directly with application stakeholders to determine requirement and project scopes

• Help maintain documentation for development architecture, process flow and data sources

Ideal Skills & Capabilities

• Expertise in Microsoft Technologies (15+ years of
  - on): Proficient in C#, VB. Net, ASP. Net, ADO. Net, and advanced SQL, with strong capability to design, develop and optimise solutions across these platforms.

• Advanced Web and Data Integration: Hands-on experience building and securing ASP. NET web applications, including
  - depth knowledge of web security best practices, and skilled in using SOAP/REST web services with XML and JSON for data exchange.

• Complex Data Handling: Demonstrated ability to efficiently parse,