Senior Manager, Engineering

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

For more information, visit NIQ.com

We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team of professional engineers — potentially including subordinate managers — delivering enterprise-grade platforms on Java, Spring Boot, Python (NumPy), REST APIs, Flask APIs, and Azure.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of professional employees, occasionally including subordinate M5/M6 managers; adapt plans and priorities to meet team service, business, and operational objectives

• Apply a deep understanding of the business and how your area integrates with others to achieve departmental objectives

• Make decisions that impact the finances, results, effectiveness, and level of service provided by the team, guided by policies, departmental plans, budgets, and resource requirements

• Identify and solve functional and organizational problems in a specialized area of expertise; understand and recognize broader impact across the department

• Own the technical health and delivery of a portfolio of services built on Java, Spring Boot, Python (NumPy), REST/Flask APIs, and Azure

• Drive architectural governance, engineering standards, and platform quality/performance/reliability improvements across teams

• Own resource planning, budgets, and team plans; manage capacity, hiring, and vendor engagement as needed

• Champion DevSecOps maturity and AI adoption across the SDLC — quality gates, security tooling, and AI-assisted engineering practices

• Guide and influence others internally and externally to build collaborative relationships, achieve goals, and adopt different points of view

• Develop managers and senior engineers; build succession depth and a strong engineering culture

• Partner with Product, Architecture, PMO, and senior leadership on roadmap, prioritization, and cross-team dependencies

• Ensure operational excellence: SLOs, incident management, cost optimization, and continuous improvement across owned services

• 10+ years of relevant software engineering experience, including 2+ years of people management experience (experience managing managers preferred)

• Strong technical foundation in Java, Spring Boot, and Python ecosystems, including data-oriented workloads with NumPy

• Deep understanding of API platforms — REST API design, governance, and Flask-based services

• Proven experience delivering and operating large-scale systems on Azure (AKS, managed databases, observability)

• Experience with RDBMS, NoSQL, messaging/queuing, and caching at enterprise scale

• Strong expertise in DevSecOps practices, CI/CD maturity, and engineering quality metrics

• Track record of managing budgets, resource plans, and delivery commitments across multiple teams

• Experience in Agile/SAFe environments, including PI planning and cross-team coordination

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including handling sensitive organizational matters

• Demonstrated ability to develop leaders and build high-performing, accountable engineering teams

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

NIQ may utilize artificial intelligence (AI) tools at various stages of the recruitment process, including résumé screening, candidate assessments, interview scheduling, job matching, communication support, and certain administrative tasks that help streamline workflows. These tools are intended to improve efficiency and support fair and consistent evaluation based on job-related criteria. All use of AI is governed by NIQ’s principles of fairness, transparency, human oversight, and inclusion. Final hiring decisions are made exclusively by humans. NIQ regularly reviews its AI tools to help mitigate bias and ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations. If you have questions, require accommodations, or wish to request human review were permitted by law, please contact your local HR representative. For more information, please visit NIQ’s AI Safety Policies and Guiding Principles: https://nielseniq.com/global/en/info/niqs-ai-safety-policies/

About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

For more information, visit NIQ.com

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