Software Engineer II (SEII)

Job Description

The Data and Analytics organization at Neustar is the DNA of the company. The DNA encodes the essence of existence and character that drives continuous innovation with data, continuous insights with analytics and continuous evolution with cutting-edge data products and services. Our vision is to be the trailblazer in Connection Science driven information services that create meaningful value for our customers. Our mission is to enable cutting-edge data products & services delivered through superior data, unique insights and top-of-the-class technology solutions. We believe in developing a Collaborative, Creative, yet Competitive, Customer Centric culture. We are shaping the present and the future at Neustar and are seeking TENXERS who share the same DNA.The Associate Engineer of Data and Analytics is a data and technology enthusiast who is able to quickly grasp new concepts, eager to learn from seniors and others and able to convert that learning to realizing new capabilities, platforms, products and services. The Associate Engineer in this role will work closely with various teams including data acquisition, data products, data sciences and various business units including marketing, security, internet of things to contribute towards the implementation of capabilities that enable the organization s vision. The role is based out of India at the Neustars offices in either Bangalore or Hyderabad.This role will report to the Director of Data and Analytics and will work collaboratively with an all-star lineup of experts in the computer science, software engineering, marketing science, security science, operation research and internet of things domains from strategy all the way to customer delivery. This role will develop the next generation of platforms, products and services that are key to generating meaningful value to the end customer and critical to the growth and success of Neustar.Responsibilities:

• Strategic and Tactical: Understand the product and data strategy to accomplish Neustar s vision. Provide inputs to managers and senior leaders to help make the right strategic and tactical decisions Develop and maintain technology best practices and guidelines and learning from evaluation of open source and commercial products and offerings.
• Planning and Communication: Contribute to technology, capability, product and services planning. Collaborate across multiple teams and provide inputs to ensure a comprehensive delivery plan that aligns with the roadmap. Planning needs to enable and support an agile development and iterative delivery approach.
• Execution and Delivery: Deliver to the plan and identify issues, constraints and potential risk items throughout the delivery process. Document the technical capabilities created during execution, delivery as well as post delivery. Execution and delivery needs to follow a rapid iterative agile process to ensure time to market objective.
• Measurement and Action: Unit test the deliverables and report the details to managers and senior staff. Take action to continuously improve the deliverable through developing test cases, test data and regression test scenarios to cover positive as well as negative measurement aspects.
• Collaboration and Innovation: Collaborate with peers and mangers through sharing and soliciting thoughts, ideas, feedback as well as artifacts (design, code etc.). Support and participate in co-development activities including hack-a-thons and other such events to help deliver functionality rapidly.
• Data and Technology Leadership: Aspire to become the leader in the data and technology domain through continuous learning, continuous experimentation and continuously delivering and refining the deliverables.

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelors degree in computer science or engineering discipline (master degree preferred)
• 2 to 5 years of experience in information technology and information services domain
• 2 to 5 years of experience in the data, analytics and sciences domain with significant hands on experience
• Hands on experience with data platforms and ecosystem tools, technologies and applications. Experience with the latest data and digital ecosystem related to marketing, advertising, security, internet of things and related domains is a plus
• Hands on experience with big data, business intelligence and analytics with significant past deliveries and achievements using SQL, Map-Reduce, Spark and other distributed computing frameworks including cloud (AWS, Azure etc.)
• Hands on experience with data pre-processing, complex data transformations using ETL/ELT technologies and SQL as well as NOSQL technologies, relational as well as graph databases and data API frameworks to query data off these databases
• Passion to seek out new technologies, innovative ways to approaching a problem and seeking guidance from senior engineers
• Passion to experiment and build on new ideas quickly and iteratively that will help push the boundaries of possibility
• Fast executor with a track record of delivering complex projects on time; responds under pressures of time and uncertainty
• Strong written, editing, proofreading and oral communication
• Strong inter-personal communication and collaboration skills
• Positive attitude, self-starter, hard work and determination

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