Associate Data Analyst

Position Highlights
We are seeking a collaborative and detail-oriented Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize data platforms and workflows that power high-scale analytics, identity resolution, and privacy-compliant data sharing. This role involves working across cloud ecosystems such as Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Azure, and GCP, with a focus on scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, data ingestion, transformation, and secure data sharing. You will play a pivotal role in enabling data-driven decision-making by ensuring reliable, well-modeled, and high-performance data infrastructure.Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop batch and streaming data pipelines using Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, and cloud-native tools.
• Build and maintain ETL/ELT workflows using orchestration platforms like Apache Airflow, dbt, or cloud schedulers.
• Ingest structured and semi-structured data from diverse sources (e.g., S3, ADLS, GCS, Kafka) into raw and curated data zones.
• Implement data transformation, normalization, aggregation, and joining logic using SQL and Python.
• Ensure data quality, accuracy, and integrity through robust design and support for automated validation and monitoring.
• Collaborate with business & data analysts, data scientists, and QA engineers to align pipeline outputs with business and analytic needs.
• Participate in developing and enforcing data modeling and governance standards (e.g., star/snowflake schema, data lineage, metadata tagging).
• Build and support privacy-aware data-sharing mechanisms such as Snowflake Clean Rooms and Databricks Delta Sharing.
• Monitor and optimize pipeline performance, scalability, and cost efficiency across cloud environments.
• Document architecture, data flows, and transformation logic for auditability and team collaboration.
• Integrate pipelines into CI/CD frameworks using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or GitLab

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related field, or 0–2 years of relevant experience (including internships or academic projects) in data engineering, ETL development, or related areas.
• Proficiency in SQL with the ability to handle complex joins, aggregations, and window functions.
• Familiarity with data formats like Parquet, Avro, JSON, and Delta Lake.
• Working knowledge of Python for scripting, data transformation, or pipeline development.
• Understanding of cloud data platforms such as AWS (S3, Glue), Azure (Data Lake, Synapse), or GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow).
• Exposure to batch and streaming architectures, and awareness of their trade-offs.
• Good documentation and collaboration skills with a growth mindset and attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow, dbt, or other workflow orchestration tools.
• Experience developing in Databricks notebooks or Snowflake SQL worksheets.
• Familiarity with distributed computing frameworks such as Apache Spark or Delta Live Tables.
• Understanding of data governance frameworks and metadata management tools (e.g., Alation, Collibra).
• Interest in identity resolution, data tokenization, and secure multi-party data collaboration.
• Knowledge of data privacy regulations such as GDPR or CCPA and best practices for secure data sharing

Location

Remote, Continental US (Preferably in Texas or Arkansas)

Primary Location City/State:

Homebased - Conway, Arkansas

Additional Locations (if applicable):

Acxiom is an equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veteran status (EOE/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.

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