Lead Developer (Semarchy)

Company Description

About Merkle

Merkle, a dentsu company, is a leading data-driven customer experience management (CXM) company that specializes in the delivery of unique, personalized customer experiences across platforms and devices. For more than 30 years, Fortune 1000 companies and leading nonprofit organizations have partnered with Merkle to maximize the value of their customer portfolios. The company’s heritage in data, technology, and analytics forms the foundation for its unmatched skills in understanding consumer insights that drive hyper-personalized marketing strategies. Its combined strengths in consulting, creative, media, analytics, data, identity, CX/commerce, technology, and loyalty & promotions drive improved marketing results and competitive advantage. With more than 14,000 employees, Merkle is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, with 50+ additional offices throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. For more information, contact Merkle at
1-877-9-Merkle or visit www.merkle.com.

Job Description

Lead Semarchy Developer

Description:  Dentsu’s master data management (MDM) team utilizes Semarchy for mastering critical enterprise data domains such as client, customer, etc for driving data governance, efficient operations, and improving the quality and trust of our data and insights.  The Lead Semarchy developer will work closely with business and technical teams to design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain data products meeting functional and nonfunctional requirements. The lead developer will also lead other developers, impacting best practices and development standards, conduct process/code reviews, and manage the technical team for implementing tasks.

Core Requirements:

1. Knowledge of Master Data Management (MDM)
2. Experience of working with MDM systems (such as Informatica, IBM Data Stage, Trillium, Semarchy, etc.)
3. Has a Computer Science or numerate degree.
4. Minimum 5 years of SQL experience working in a data warehouse, analytics or data migration environment.
5. Technical Leadership
6. People Management
7. Excellent communication skills with ability to document and present design patterns, code reviews, runbook.
8. Knowledge of record matching and/or data quality issues.
9. Experience of working with integration tools (such as Azure Data Factory, SnapLogic, BizTalk, etc.)
10. Understands project management principals.
11. Has performed demonstrations to stakeholders.
12. Understanding of how to implement algorithms.
13. Database design using normalisation techniques.
14. Experienced in designing Entity Relationship Diagrams.
15. Has worked in a technical team to deliver team goals.
16. Has worked in an Agile environment (using Jira or Azure DevOps or other agile technologies).
17. Worked on internal stakeholder or customer projects.
18. Understands the technical development lifecycle.
19. Must understand the difference between good design and bad design.
20. Use of coding standards.
21. Has created test plans/scripts.
22. Must be a team player.
23. Must be a strong problem solver.

Qualifications

The following are preferred requirements:

1. Experience of programming languages (such as C, C++, C#, Python)
2. Experience of Reporting tools (Tableau or Power BI)

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