About GfK
We are Germany’s largest market research consultancy and one of the biggest brand & consumer insight organisations in the world
We harness big-data on consumers and brands to provide multi-national clients with actionable intelligence that helps inform their strategies and shapes markets
GfK Tech is responsible for the entire life cycle of global market research applications
We develop applications for our internal and external customers to enable big data
We apply modern technology and proven practices to solve problems around big data storage, big data processing, machine learning and complex data visualisation
We aim to build innovative greenfield cloud native data analytics products
Help lead our new London based Tech hub and be at the forefront of shaping the future of GfK & market research
About You
You are a passionate Technical Architect who is very hands on with the technology and cloud offering and has deep experience in designing systems from scratch
You can take high level ambiguous business requirements and translate them into recommended Architecture and technology stack
You have experience in a range of modern technologies through your current role but have also researched and played around with other modern technologies in your own time
Skills…(do you have most of these?…)
- 10+ years of solid commercial development experience in Java and other open stack
- Expert Knowledge of the Java stack – Spring, Apache libraries and common open source frameworks
- REST, API design & micro-services with good exposure to GraphQL
- No-SQL Databases such as Mongo DB and Search indexes such as Elastic Search
- Strong understanding of Linux distributions
- Security aware at all stages of development
- Comprehensive automated testing experience
- Passionate about code quality and readability
- Have proven track records around Thinking big, bias for action &insist on highest standards
- System Design, Component design, knowledge of various architectural and design patterns and anti-patterns
- Confirm architecture capability and flexibility to support high availability applications by developing analytical models; completing validation tests
- Prior experience in architecting Cloud based multi-tenant SaaS solution with high scalability & high availability
Nice to have (…also got some of this? Great!
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- Distributed cloud-based systems, services and architecture
- AWS & other cloud platforms such as Azure and Google Cloud
- Containerization technologies such as Docker
- Other NoSQL and Geospatial databases experience
- Lambda architecture with Kafka as well as Storm and Spark
- Flow based processing using Apache Ni-Fi
Responsibilities
You will be closely working with Product team, VP Architecture and Developers across London and Germany and insure the code implementation is meeting the architectural objectives by doing regular code reviews and mentorship session with Developers
You will be working in our newly established London development centre
You will be a pivotal member of our team and have the opportunity to lay the technical foundations of new products