Senior Solution Architect
Company: Acxiom
Location: Joliet
Posted on: May 14, 2022
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Job Description:
The Solution Architect is responsible for estimating, crafting,
implementing and managing change to custom client solutions. You
will work with external Acxiom clients to gather and translate
customer requirements into solutions, through architecture and
design artifacts, and provide technical leadership to the project
or account team, ensuring both the client's and Acxiom's overall
business strategy and technical vision are incorporated into the
solution. You will provide client support that requires a focus on
consulting for proposed changes, process improvements, issue
resolution, research of client data inquiries, and working closely
with internal and external associates.
**What you will do:**
- Work closely with client to collect requirements, perform scoping
& estimation for new client implementations and handle change
requests
- Identify client's business needs and engage in most efficient
solution method for changes/solutions
- Provide direction with technical and business partner
requirements and overall project plan as it relates to the
solution. Provide input into risk mitigation assessment and ensure
data solution design fulfills functional and technical requirements
and can consistently meet progress against service level agreements
(SLAs).
- Transform customer requirements information into logical process
flows, considering cost, portability, compatibility, and usability
as well as Acxiom corporate initiatives
- Build detailed design specifications from high level design and
business requirements to include: Data Ingestion, Hygiene and
Recognition, data models and mapping, data aggregations, data mart
integration with 3rd-party tools, reports, outputs, and custom
process design
- Set expectations with account teams and clients on expected
service levels and support
- Perform impact analysis to evaluate impact of changes to existing
system
- Accountable for the accuracy, process, integrity, quality, and
stewardship of client solution architecture
- Educate internal Acxiom associates and external clients on the
solution, tech stack, capabilities, constraints, support levels,
and services
- Provide technical leadership to the account team ensuring we have
strong account management procedures to meet client expectations
and ensure the quality of the services we deliver
- Partner with the customer to understand, maintain, and improve
solution roadmap and have a deep understanding of the business
value we provide our customers
- Responsible for having end to end knowledge of the solution
- Owns and oversees the improvement process
- Critical issue point for research and issue resolution
**WHAT YOU WILL NEED:**
- 4-year college degree in related field of study or equivalent
work experience
- 4+ years' experience in technical roles, including experience
designing solutions as an architect, developer or similar role
- Ability to collaborate with mid to high-level client partners and
communicate effectively. Ability to adjust communication and
presentation styles based on different audiences
- Ability to take detailed, highly technical concepts and present
in a high-level non-technical fashion. Capable of effectively
communicating the business benefits of the solution
- Ability to exhibit and demonstrate leadership within a given
implementation or major change project and provide technical
leadership to the team
- Strong understanding of relational databases, with experience in
data modeling, data warehousing, and data mart ETL.
- Designing and developing with Oracle SQL and scripting languages,
such as Unix shell, Perl, and Python
- Strong written, communication, and presentation skills
**WHAT WILL SET YOU APART:**
- Extensive experience with database development tools (Oracle,
Toad), ETL and integration technologies
- Subject matter expertise in Digital Marketing and Marketing
Database Environments
- Experience developing large scale systems
- Experience working in controlled development, testing and
production environments
- Strong familiarity with the systems development lifecycle, with
experience using Waterfall and Agile-based methodologies
- Familiarity with development toolkits & source repositories
(GitHub), SQL interpreters (TOAD), etc.
- Excellent problem-solving and quantitative skills
- Aptitude for debugging problems in complex, unfamiliar code
- Core Acxiom product knowledge (i.e., Data Hygiene and
Recognition)
- FUSE
- ASC or MDE or UDL product knowledge (internal)
- Understanding of system architecture, network topology, and
deployment concepts
Acxiom is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer
(AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruiting,
hiring, training, promotion or other employment of associates or
the awarding of subcontracts because of a person's race, color,
sex, age, religion, national origin, protected veteran, military
status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, genetics or other protected status.
Keywords: Acxiom, Joliet , Senior Solution Architect, Other , Joliet, Illinois
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