Associate Solution Developer

About the Role

The Associate Solution Developer works on Acxiom and third-party software to create solutions for business problems defined by specific business requirements. This role gains and applies technical and data processing knowledge to solve marketing and data warehousing problems for clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Gains knowledge and applies that knowledge to understand requirements in order to build, enhance, or integrate programs and processes for one or more Acxiom Client solutions and/or applications.
• Reads and interprets application design and functional specifications to write application code.
• Consults on functional requirements and participates in code review sessions.
• Utilizes Acxiom standard methodologies for overall solution and data integrity.
• Understands Acxiom solution software and applies it to define solution standards, policies, and procedures.
• Identifies and diagnoses areas of maintenance, performance issues, and process improvement.
• Develops/executes unit test cases and tests software applications that fulfill functional specifications using an IDE.
• Documents and interprets test results and corrects application coding errors.
• Completes application development tasks for short duration (Level of Effort >20-40 hour tasks) programming requirements with limited assistance.
• Responsible for multiple small projects while also working on larger projects with more experienced developers to meet due dates and deadlines.
• Works on Acxiom and third-party software to create solutions.
• May configure or tune Acxiom or third-party software.
• May work on automation processes to tie components together.
• May develop custom application code to accommodate specific business requirements.
• May collaborate with others to add extensions to existing Acxiom software.
• May provide new development, ongoing maintenance, support, and optimization of solutions for account teams.
• May mentor less experienced associates in the role.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Java
• VB .NET
• C#
• ASP.NET
• SQL / PL –SQL
• C / C++
• Datastage
• Ab Initio
• Perl
• Shell Scripting
• XML
• HTML
• PHP/MySQL
• AWK/SED
• JavaScript
• Linux/Unix Commands
• Linux/Unix File Management
• Knowledge of Relational Database Principles; Oracle or other DBMS.
• Application of industry standards, best practices in solutions.
• Excellent communication skills; can communicate ideas clearly and effectively to other members of the development team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and little to no years of related experience; or an advanced degree without experience; or equivalent work experience.
• 4-year college degree in a relevant field of study or relevant work experience.
• Language syntax of at least 3 relevant software development languages.
• Operating System Exposure in previous jobs or school is a nice-to-have.
• Formal mentorship concluded. Increased complexity of assignments - augmentation and/or independent segment owner. Low complexity assignments. Ability to see whole picture.
• Functional knowledge of Solution Development.
• No certification required.
• Applicants for this position with Acxiom in the U.S. must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Acxiom (i.e., H-1B visa, F-1 visa [OPT], TN visa, or any other non-immigrant status).