Senior Identity Resolution Engineer - Remote & High-Impact

Acxiom; Montgomery (AL); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Acxiom is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Identity Resolution engineering team. The role focuses on designing, developing, and supporting high-scale identity resolution and entity resolution systems across large datasets, with real-time and batch workflows.

You'll work with Java, Python, Scala, Spark, SQL, and AWS/Databricks to build low-latency APIs and scalable data-processing pipelines, collaborating with architects, data teams, and product stakeholders to deliver reliable,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java and enterprise application development.
• Strong proficiency in Python for application development, data processing, automation, or distributed workloads.
• Strong proficiency in Scala, particularly for large-scale data-processing applications.
• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Spark and distributed data processing.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL, including complex queries, data transformations, and query optimization.
• Experience developing production workloads using Databricks.
• Experience developing cloud-based applications and services using AWS.
• Experience with Identity Resolution, Entity Resolution, data matching, or similar large-scale data-processing systems.
• Experience developing REST APIs, backend services, microservices, or distributed applications.
• Experience building and optimizing high-throughput, low-latency services and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software supporting large-scale Identity Resolution and Entity Resolution platforms.
• Develop systems that match, link, consolidate, and resolve identities across multiple datasets and data sources.
• Implement both real-time and batch identity-resolution workflows.
• Develop high-performance backend services and APIs using Java, Python, and Scala.
• Build and optimize low-latency APIs supporting real-time identity lookup and resolution.
• Develop large-scale distributed data-processing applications using Apache Spark.
• Build and maintain Spark workloads using Scala and Python.
• Develop complex SQL queries and data-processing logic to support identity matching, analysis, and data transformation.
• Work with Databricks to develop, optimize, and operate large-scale data-processing workloads.
• Develop cloud-native applications and data-processing solutions using AWS.
• Work closely with architects to translate solution designs and technical requirements into production-quality software.
• Contribute to technical design discussions and recommend implementation approaches based on performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Implement deterministic and probabilistic matching logic, fuzzy matching, data normalization, identity linking, and related Identity Resolution capabilities.
• Optimize application code, Spark workloads, SQL queries, and data pipelines for performance and scalability.
• Troubleshoot complex application, distributed-processing, data-quality, and production performance issues.
• Develop automated tests and validation processes to ensure the accuracy and reliability of identity-matching logic.
• Build monitoring, logging, metrics, and observability into production applications and data-processing workloads.
• Participate in code reviews and help establish strong software engineering practices across the team.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and provide technical guidance on complex development tasks.
• Collaborate with architects, engineering teams, data engineers, product teams, security teams, and other stakeholders.
• Stay current with evolving technologies and engineering practices related to Identity Resolution, distributed systems, cloud computing, and large-scale data processing.

Skills

Java

Python

Scala

Apache Spark

SQL

AWS

Databricks

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Job description

Acxiom is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Identity Resolution engineering team. The role focuses on designing, developing, and supporting high-scale identity resolution and entity resolution systems across large datasets, with real-time and batch workflows.

You'll work with Java, Python, Scala, Spark, SQL, and AWS/Databricks to build low-latency APIs and scalable data-processing pipelines, collaborating with architects, data teams, and product stakeholders to deliver reliable,