SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Acxiom

Every week, Acxiom (NASDAQ: ACXM) powers more than a trillion transactions that enable better marketing results for 7,000+ global clients. With nearly 1.1 billion third-party cookies, a mobile reach of 200 million users and 50 publisher and developer partners, Acxiom’s digital reach will soon approach nearly every internet user in the United States – making us one of the most powerful “big data” companies in the marketing world.

The IT infrastructure needed to seamlessly manage Acxiom’s transformational marketing solutions is impressive, challenging and requires the best networking, software engineering, systems administration, systems security and infrastructure architecture talent available. Acxiom is staffing up an IT hub in Austin for this purpose. If you are tops in the IT field, let’s talk.

As an IT software engineer you will analyze, gather requirements, design, configure and develop the IaaS management layer which supports the integration, automation, testing, deployment and ongoing operational support of software releases for Acxiom’s IT infrastructure.Using current programming languages and scripting technologies you will write code, complete programming, perform testing and debugging of applications. Our software engineers complete documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance. You will interact with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications. As you advance in your career the expectation is individuals become thought leaders and communicate those ideas.

What you will do:

Provide software architecture/engineering representation in support of IT architecture activities
Possess a sound understanding of Acxiom functional and business objectives that drive and shape technology requirements and design deliverables
Evaluate requirements and define an organized code plan that estimates the tasks needed for the overall project
Complete coding tasks – examples include APIs, integration modules and other applications
Ensure that all capabilities delivered align with original business objectives, services levels, IT strategies and design intent
Produce quality code that is efficient, secure, supportable and consistent from project to project
Collaborate with other engineers and architects, within IT and other parts of Acxiom, to drive guidelines and documentation
Provide advanced technical expertise, oversight and accountability for resolution of outages, service level issues and other events in partnership with support teams
Follow the software life cycle for production certification
Closely partner with information security in insuring all applicable security and compliance standards and requirements are incorporated into software/service design

What you will need:

BS Degree in MIS/ Computer science or equivalent work experience in a highly complex, dynamic IT environment
Ability to multi-task, managing multiple tasks at one time; quickly and accurately shifting attention among multiple tasks under distracting conditions without loss of accuracy
Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into IT solutions
Ability to articulate end-to-end technical requirements across delivery functions
Extensive experience of designing, developing, testing complex software solutions to support distributed, scalable and highly available applications
Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal, conflict resolution and customer service skills
Professionalism in dealing with all levels of management and staff
Understands systems dependencies and interrelation to the business
Able to analyze complex cross-functional and cross-platform issues
Able to define process improvements
PACT - Passion, Accountability, Creativity, Teamwork (foundation of Acxiom's culture)

What will set you apart:

Understanding of the competitive IT landscape from both a business and technical perspective
Experience with IaaS (conceptual and/or practical) , including software-defined infrastructure (e.g., network, storage, etc.), defining service catalogs, etc.
Experience with virtualization and cloud management and automation technologies (e.g., VMware, KVM, OpenStack, etc.)
Experience with external Cloud providers (ex. AWS)
Experience with operating systems including Unix, Linux and Microsoft Windows
Understanding of or experience with various network (including firewall and load balancers) and security technologies (e.g., Cisco, Palo Alto, A10, etc.)
Experience with programming and scripting languages such as C/C++, Java, Bash, Perl, JavaScript, XML, HTML, PowerShell, etc.
Experience designing and implementing APIs

Acxiom’s expertise managing consumer data drives on-line, off-line and mobile marketing decisions for more than 7,000 global clients with worldwide annual revenue of $1.4 billion.

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Acxiom is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, status as a protected veteran or status as a qualified individual with a disability.

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