Data Engineer

Role Summary: Experienced Data Engineer with a strong background in working with large sets of data, data warehousing tools, and software development methodology. In this role, you’ll participate directly in designing, building, and maintaining our data infrastructure, data products, and collaborating with operations and product management teams to ensure business success and pursue new product opportunities..

Design, develop, and maintain scalable data workflows and pipelines using big data technologies, including Map/Reduce, Spark, Databricks and Acxiom proprietary tools

Collaborate with data analysts, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand and develop product requirements

Tune workflows to enhance processing efficiency and optimize use of resources

Write well-crafted, tested, readable, and maintainable code

Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge

Drive innovation. Stay up to date with advancements in data engineering tools, cloud services, and generative AI; seeking opportunities to drive leaps in value creation for Acxiom’s clients

Bachelor's (or better) degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field

1 year of prior experience in data engineering, Databricks experience preferred.

Proficiency in Python / PySpark

Proficiency with big data technologies including SQL, Spark, Hadoop

Experience designing data models to optimize storage and retrieval

Experience working with AWS based solutions

Experience with CICD (shift left) development practices

Strong problem-solving skills and a commitment to excellence

Strong written and oral communication skills with an ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment

Prior experience with IaC and Terraform

Prior experience developing in Scala

ML skills and experience deploying AI models into solutions