Engineering Manager

Key Skills

Apache Hadoop, Effective communication skills, SPARK Programming

Job Description

Let’s be unstoppable together!

At Circana, we are fueled by our passion for continuous learning and growth, we seek and share feedback freely, and we celebrate victories both big and small in an environment that is flexible and accommodating to our work and personal lives. We have a global commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion as we believe in the undeniable strength that diversity brings to our business, employees, clients, and communities (with us you can always bring your full self to work). Join our inclusive, committed team to be a challenger, own outcomes, and stay curious together. Learn more at www.circana.com.

What will you be doing? 

Circana is looking for a software development manager to lead a team of 60+ software developers. The person will be responsible for a portfolio of products for Circana's growth engine Media division. Some of our measurement products are developed in partnership with marketing giants like Google, Meta and Amazon to name a few and you may be interacting with these companies. Internally will be working with product management in US and EU and Data Science team in India, Greece and US.

We are looking for a leader who can drive excellence in execution and drive the team to deliver the best. The person should have computer science and statistics background and 15+ years of working experience in software development in marketing and analytics. 

Our products are developed in Circana's Liquid Data platform which has one of the fastest in-memory aggregation engine in the marketplace, also has a best in class ROLAP engine to do complex analytics calculations and also an excellent Visualization layer. Circana is a bigdata company with 100s of penta bytes of data under management in on-premise and cloud. Our data layer is in Hadoop/Spark.

Job Responsibilities

• Leading team in terms of requirement gathering & clarification, technical expertise, project delivery and release management
• Deep dive into Product development, Design & Architecture changes and suggestions, Code review and approval for Arch/Design changes
• Understanding the platform and product, Analyzing the tools and technologies for betterment of the existing solution/product 
• Workings closely with team to make sure any technical, functional clarifications are addressed on day-to-day basis
• Working with onsite for big picture on the product/solution and getting aligned with team in terms of overall initiative
• Continuous R&D on the new technologies and bringing up the pros and cons for product/solution evolution
• Planning the delivery and release as per client commitment
• Upskilling the team and tracking on the progress
• Reporting the status on project and progress made to senior management
• Reviewing and enforcing coding standards, pushing and adopting for process improvements

Requirements

• Minimum BE/B.Tech in computer Science with statistics 
• 15-20 years of Experience
• Minimum 10 years of s/w development management experience
• Knowledge of web development
• Knowledge of cloud technologies
• Knowledge of Hadoop/Spark/Data Warehousing
• Knowledge of Relational Database
• Knowledge of OLAP technologies 

Circana Behaviors

As well as the technical skills, experience and attributes that are required for the role, our shared behaviors sit at the core of our organization. Therefore, we always look for people who can continuously champion these behaviors throughout the business within their day-to-day role:

• Stay Curious: Being hungry to learn and grow, always asking the big questions
• Seek Clarity: Embracing complexity to create clarity and inspire action
• Own the Outcome: Being accountable for decisions and taking ownership of our choices
• Center on the Client: Relentlessly adding value for our customers
• Be a Challenger: Never complacent, always striving for continuous improvement
• Champion Inclusivity: Fostering trust in relationships engaging with empathy, respect and integrity
• Commit to each other: Contributing to making Circana a great place to work for everyone

Location 

This position can be located in the following area(s): Bangalore / Pune