NielsenIQ: Manager, Engineering — Pune, MH, India

About NielsenIQ

NielsenIQ, also known as NIQ, works in consumer intelligence and retail measurement. Its employer material describes using market information, consumer insights and analytics to help businesses understand buying behaviour. Its data operations address the accuracy and completeness of information behind client reports, while analytical services interpret that information. The business connects details about products and retail activity with broader views of markets, giving organisations evidence for understanding demand and making commercial decisions.

The position and its setting

NielsenIQ lists Manager, Engineering in Pune, MH, India, under reference R26_0024617|IN. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Employment type: Full-time
• Employer listing date: 22 October 2026
• Brands: NielsenIQ
• Job Family: Cyber Security

Responsibilities and work described

• Manager, Engineerng
• Chennai/Pune
• The Engineering Manager, Web Data Acquisition leads an India-based engineering team responsible for building, operating, and improving scalable web-scraping capabilities
• Reporting to a Senior Manager or Director, this role combines people leadership, technical delivery, operational ownership, and cross-functional execution
• The manager is accountable for the performance and development of individual contributors in India and works with global Engineering, Product, Data Operations, and delivery stakeholders to translate priorities into reliable outcomes
• Leadership: and Develop the India Team
• Manage, coach, and develop India-based engineers and associates, with clear goals, regular feedback, career development, and performance accountability
• Building: an inclusive, high-trust team culture that values ownership, learning, engineering quality, and continuous improvement
• Plan team capacity, skills development, hiring, onboarding, succession coverage, and workload allocation for the India team
• Create clarity on priorities, decision rights, delivery expectations, and escalation paths
• Own Scraping Engineering Delivery
• Leadership: the design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance of web scrapers and supporting services
• Quality / delivery: reliable acquisition of retailer and marketplace data while managing changing websites, anti-bot defenses, data-quality requirements, and operational constraints
• Drive predictable execution across new-source onboarding, change requests, production support, technical debt, and platform improvements
• Use delivery and operational metrics to identify risks, remove bottlenecks, and improve throughput, quality, and resilience
• Drive Engineering and Operational Excellence

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 8 to 10 years of experience managing software engineers or data-engineering professionals, including goal setting, coaching, performance management, and career development
• Software-engineering background with experience delivering production systems in a modern programming: Python, Java, C#, or JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience: web scraping, browser automation, crawling, data pipelines, distributed systems, or high-volume data collection
• Knowledge: HTTP, HTML/DOM, APIs, proxies, browser behavior, monitoring, incident response, and production support
• Lead delivery across ambiguous requirements, operational pressure, and competing priorities
• Written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical risks and trade-offs to non-specialists
• Experience working with cross-functional and geographically distributed stakeholders

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Experience: retailer, marketplace, digital-commerce, or digital-shelf data
• Experience operating cloud-based services and automated data-processing workflows
• Familiarity: anti-bot techniques, headless browsers, scraper observability, data-quality controls, and resilient extraction patterns
• Experience improving team operating rhythms, delivery metrics, incident practices, and engineering productivity
• Experience hiring and scaling engineering teams in India
• Success in This Role
• The India team has clear priorities, engagement, effective coaching, and reliable execution
• Scraping services become more predictable, observable, maintainable, and resilient
• New and changed data sources are delivered with appropriate quality controls and operational readiness
• Stakeholders have timely visibility into delivery status, capacity, risks, and trade-offs
• Technical debt and recurring operational issues are systematically reduced

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Work arrangement: On-site
• Advertised location: Pune, MH, India

Benefits mentioned by the employer

• 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/

Pay and application dates

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Relevant skills

• Python
• Java
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• C#
• APIs
• maintenance
• stakeholder management
• root-cause analysis
• quality control