NielsenIQ: Manager, Engineering — Chennai, TN, 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 Chennai, TN, India, under reference R26_0020205|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: 2 September 2026
• Brands: NielsenIQ
• Job Family: Software Engineering

Responsibilities and work described

• Manager, Engineering (Full stack + AI)
• Chennai/Pune
• Shapes best practices, coding standards, and software architecture at an organizational level
• Leadership: solutions that improve API services quality, performance, and reliability across the organization
• Leadership: solutions that improve Frontend – Angular code quality, performance, and reliability across the organization
• Leadership: the development of AI-powered solutions that enhance end-user experience, simplify workflows, and drive greater productivity
• Adopt and improve efficiency gain by Adopting AI tools in SDLC
• Optimize computing cost, performance using the appropriate software engineering principles
• Work: closely with PL, Arch, PMO, Interfacing teams to productionize features
• Enforce DevSecOps practices - Secret, SAST, DAST
• Progressive coverage in unit testing
• Development: engineering talent through coaching, technical mentorship, constructive reviews, and clear accountability for delivery outcomes
• Leadership: design reviews, code reviews, and platform APIs roadmap discussions
• Leads without authority, influencing expertise, logical reasoning, and collaboration
• Research, evaluate, and recommend emerging technologies, frameworks, and engineering practices that can strengthen the product and platform
• Problem-solving skills

Essential requirements and candidate background

• Knowledge: technology standards and ability to convey key aspects to team members
• 10+ years of professional experience in Platform Engineering, building scalable frontends and API Services layer integrating with upstream and downstream
• Defined and evolved the technical strategy for large-scale distributed systems
• Balanced short-term delivery needs with long-term scalability and maintainability
• Should have experience in design, build, deploy, refactor enterprise grade applications
• Deep expertise in Angular, Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices
• Good to have hands-on experience in Agentic AI development using frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, or Google ADK
• Good to have hands-on experience building RAG-based applications and solutions
• Good understanding of MCP (Model Context Protocol) and A2A (Agent2Agent) protocols
• Expertise Database (RDBMS, NoSQL, Mongo, Postgres, Snowflake)
• Experience integrating LLM APIs such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Mistral, or equivalent providers
• Experience: Modern cloud ecosystems with Azure/ AWS/ GCP
• Expertise in DevSecOps pipeline, quality gates, tools (code coverage, testing, sast, dast)
• Resolved cross-team challenges by fostering open and constructive conversations
• Experience working in agile methodologies and sprint planning
• Must have a bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Hands on in tools for Caching, Queuing (Redis Cache preferred)

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Work arrangement: Hybrid
• Advertised location: Chennai, TN, 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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Practical preparation: Java

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Relevant skills

• Java
• NoSQL
• AWS
• GCP
• Azure
• MCP
• APIs
• AI/ML
• LLMs
• Angular
• AI
• sustainability
• stakeholder management
• Google Cloud