Software Developer

Job Overview

Company: Acxiom Corporation
Location: US-CA-Foster City
Base Pay: N/A
Employee Type: Full-Time
Industry: Other Great Industries
Manages Others: No
Job Type: Design

Information Technology
Req'd Education: Not Specified

Req'd Experience: At least 7 year(s)
Req'd Travel: None
Relocation Covered: Not Specified
Phone: Not Available
Fax: Not Available

Job Description

The Software Developer integrates Acxiom and third party software, data and technologies to create solutions to business problems and opportunities. Draws upon technical and data processing knowledge to solve complex marketing and data warehousing problems on very large volumes of data. A Software Developer may configure or tune Acxiom or third party software, develop automation to tie components together, develop custom application code to accommodate specific business requirements or collaborate with others to add extensions to existing software. A Software Developer may also be responsible for ongoing maintenance, support, and optimization working closely with accounts teams who are utilizing the solution.

Duties and Responsibilities:

•Provide technical strategy, direction and design of complex solutions.
•Advises functional requirements and application approaches.
•Interprets high level application design and functional specifications to write application code.
•Imports intellectual capital, champions new technologies, languages, and methods that could create an advantage for Acxiom and its clients.
•Identifies and recommends innovation ideas, assess value, and drive implementation strategy.
•Helps provide workforce management.
•Breaks down work in implementations or existing client solutions into manageable pieces and coordinates multiple developers.
•Effectively identifies, troubleshoots and resolves complex technical/coding issues.
•Recognizes and communicates areas for innovation and/or improvement.
•Documents, shares and provides input on best practices and case studies.
•Performs Level of Effort(LOE) estimations for individuals tasks within a project or implementation as well as the overall effort for large projects and existing client solutions.
•Provides expertise on system and application development tools to identify and address issues.
•Maintains subject matter expertise in Acxiom technologies, verticals and lines of business in order to help align client business needs to products, solutions and services offered.

Job Requirements

Required skills:
•Strong knowledge of Distributed Computing and Service Oriented Architectures.
•C++, Java, J2EE, Hadoop/Map-Reduce, RDBMS/SQL, Scripting Languages.
•Experience working in a Unix/Linux environment.
•Strong communication and problem solving skills.

About Acxiom

Acxiom is a recognized leader in marketing services and technology that enable marketers to successfully manage audiences, personalize consumer experiences and create profitable customer relationships. Our superior industry-focused, consultative approach combines consumer data and analytics, databases, data integration and consulting solutions for personalized multichannel marketing strategies. Acxiom leverages over 40 years of experience in data management to deliver high-performance, highly secure, reliable infrastructure management services. For more information about Acxiom, visit Acxiom.com.

Company Overview

Customer information is arguably the most important asset a company owns. Not as evident is the fact that many customer relationship solutions fail because companies do not fully capitalize on their customer data. Acxiom shows you how to harvest and maximize the information you have to build strong, lasting relationships with your customers.

Acxiom Corporation is a world leader in customer and information management solutions and the trusted partner of leading global companies. We design and implement real-time solutions that help you:
Fully analyze your entire customer base
Identify best strategies for optimal customer and information management
Understand the importance of data quality and what it means to your bottom line
Evaluate current capabilities and resources
Analyze your costs and prioritize CRM and IT investments
Maximize customer relationships by building a customer information infrastructure to support your marketing and decision-making efforts
Simply put, we make it easy for you to make and keep great customer relationships by giving you the knowledge to know what they like, what they want and how to best communicate with them. Acxiom helps you build those needed great relationships to sustain and grow your business by providing customer data expertise, information systems management, operational excellence, technological innovation and creative problem solving.

Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, with locations throughout the United States, and in the United Kingdom, France and Australia.