Remote Data Acquisition & Vendor Governance Specialist

Acxiom; United States; Remote; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Acxiom is seeking a data acquisition and vendor management specialist to coordinate intake prerequisites, maintain data feed documentation, and troubleshoot feed issues with the Data Ingestion team.

The role requires 2–4 years in data governance or related fields, strong licensing knowledge, and excellent communication to explain licensing constraints to stakeholders. Remote work from Conway, AR is available with national scope.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years in data acquisition, vendor management, data governance, or product support roles within a data-driven organization.
• Hands-on experience with data products, licensing models, and identity/data integration solutions.
• Comfort navigating data structures, APIs, and file delivery methods (SFTP, cloud storage, direct feeds).
• Strong ability to read and interpret complex licensing agreements, contract terms, and usage metrics.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate data availability, licensing constraints, and business impacts to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate technical intake prerequisites for new data providers with our Data Ingestion team.
• Maintain technical documentation for data feeds, including schema mappings and data dictionaries.
• Partner with data ingestion teams to troubleshoot delivery failures, format anomalies, or feed interruptions.
• Track lifecycle of data acquisition agreements from initiation through execution.
• Audit and log contractual parameters into central tracking systems (permitted use cases, restrictions, renewal dates, etc.).
• Reconcile vendor usage, data volume metrics, and invoice details with procurement and finance.
• Monitor vendor performance against SLAs, including delivery timeliness and data quality standards.
• Maintain the central Data Acquisition Salesforce with provider status, feed types, renewal cadences, and key contacts.

Skills

Vendor management

Data governance

Data licensing

API familiarity

Stakeholder communication

Tools

SFTP

Cloud storage

Direct feeds

SQL

Job description

Acxiom is seeking a data acquisition and vendor management specialist to coordinate intake prerequisites, maintain data feed documentation, and troubleshoot feed issues with the Data Ingestion team.

The role requires 2–4 years in data governance or related fields, strong licensing knowledge, and excellent communication to explain licensing constraints to stakeholders. Remote work from Conway, AR is available with national scope.