NielsenIQ: Senior Manager, Antibot Engineering — Madrid, M, Spain

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 Senior Manager, Antibot Engineering in Madrid, M, Spain, under reference R26_0020280|ES. 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: 16 October 2026
• Brands: NielsenIQ
• Job Family: Cyber Security

Responsibilities and work described

• The Role
• The Senior Manager, Antibot Engineering takes leadership responsibility for a defined part of the Antibot Engineering organization
• Based in Spain and reporting to the Director of Antibot Engineering, this leader manages a distributed team located in Western Europe and Algeria
• The geographic footprint describes where the team is located, not a regional mandate: the role contributes to the global Antibot Engineering mission and priorities
• The leader works across Web Data Acquisition, Product, Engineering, Operations, and business stakeholders to turn demand into clear engineering choices and measurable outcomes
• Leadership: part of the global Antibot Engineering organization
• Own the people, delivery, and technical outcomes of an assigned part of the global Antibot Engineering organization
• Translate the Director of Antibot Engineering’s strategy into clear team objectives, priorities, roadmaps, and execution plans
• Balance retailer unblocking and long-term R&D projects
• Delivery: clear visibility into retailer priorities, R&D progress, capacity, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs
• Drive retailer prioritization and engineering execution
• Establishment: a transparent prioritization process that converts business requirements, customer impact, operational risk, and technical dependencies into an executable retailer backlog
• Partner with business, product, delivery, and operations stakeholders to clarify demand, challenge assumptions, resolve priority conflicts, and communicate trade-offs
• Quality / delivery: prioritized retailer unblocking work is planned, staffed, tracked, and delivered with clear ownership and measurable outcomes
• Balance urgent retailer needs with platform development, solution durability, technical debt, and longer-term engineering capacity
• Lead, develop, and retain the team

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, web data acquisition, applied R&D, or a related technology field
• 3+ years of people-management experience, including leadership of experienced engineers, technical leads, managers, or multiple teams
• Demonstrated accountability for engineering delivery and production services in a complex, high-change environment
• Experience: distributed systems, cloud platforms, automation, observability, incident management, and engineering quality practices
• Organizational leadership, prioritization, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills
• Lead across countries and cultures and to influence teams outside the direct reporting line
• Professional fluency in English

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Experience: web scraping, reverse engineering, or large-scale data collection
• Experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams in Europe and/or North Africa
• Knowledge: antibot solutions, CDN or WAF
• Experience driving operating-model change, automation, platform adoption, or engineering transformation
• Success Measures
• A capable, engaged, and accountable engineering team with clear goals, development plans, and succession coverage
• Retailer priorities that are traceable to business requirements and delivered with transparent trade-offs and predictable execution
• An R&D roadmap that produces reusable improvements in Antibot capability, automation, durability, and scale
• Clear ownership, metrics, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communication
• Effective adoption of global platforms and reduction of avoidable regional duplication

Location, schedule and contract conditions

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• Work arrangement: Remote
• Advertised location: Madrid, M, Spain

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/

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Pay and application dates

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Relevant skills

• risk management
• investment
• stakeholder management
• communication
• incident response