Platform Architect

Company Description:
We are champions for meaningful progress and we strive to be a force for good—for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all.

**Why Join Us?**

Merkle is the leader in data-driven performance marketing. We help brands achieve tremendous competitive advantage. We thrive because we employ the best in the business. Merkle’s energy lives in everything we do, and it shows in the way we deliver to our clients. Additionally, we are recognized as top global partners by some of the world’s leading technology firms including Adobe, Google, AWS, Salesforce, and more.

**Job Description**:

- **_Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis._** **_No sponsorship or work transfers are available for this position_**:

- **_ Applicants must currently live in and have a permanent residence in the United States_**

**Position Responsibilities**:

- Drives business, marketing, functional and technical requirements to create and present comprehensive and scalable solutions to technical and business stakeholders with initial focus on Consumer Data Platform (CDP)
- Ensures alignment of business requirements with Merkle standards and policies, and with industry best practices.
- Works with and/or implements data integrations in support of Client customer use cases and journeys
- Proactively identifies and resolves issues related to overall platform performance from data ingestion to data distribution.
- Architects data feeds, platform configuration, and components needed to run complex automated marketing journeys.
- Works with SMEs from individual platform components to ensure proper product configuration and operation.
- Stays abreast of industry technology innovations, new business practices, and third-party technology solutions.
- Help us continuously improve by identifying, creating, and enhancing internal systems and processes based on recurring client requests or evolving industry standards.
- Leverages thought leadership to highlight previous successful deliverables to clients.
- Collaborate and share best practices, lessons learned and technical improvement opportunities within the wider business community.

Qualifications:

- 3+ years of hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Platform: (any of RT-CDP, AJO, CJA)
- Experience working in an agency or consulting company across multiple industries.
- Self-Directed Autonomous Thinker: Experience leading practices and working in a large, fast-paced environment working with tight deadlines and multiple priorities with limited guidance.
- Proactive. Keeping current on market tends ever-shifting industry.
- Strategic thinker comfortable challenging clients and managing their expectations.
- Successful experience collaborating on large, complex deals and leading teams.
- Personal technical credibility, through direct experience of leading and inspiring teams (directly or indirectly) on key technologies and best practices
- Experience with activation platforms and concepts (e.g. CMS, DAM, ad serving)
- Solid understanding of data security/privacy best practices

**Solid understanding of**:

- Software development and agile delivery
- Platform architecture with focus on data ingress and egress
- XDM & Mix-Ins (for data modelling)
- Relational database concepts, with exposure to SQL
- Data management, segmentation, ETL best practices
- Scripting and query development
- Data processing - API, Batch. Specifically - using tools such as Swagger to build and present data relationships across solutions

Additional Information:
At Merkle, we believe that a diverse environment improves us as a community and as a business. We want to foster an environment of growth, where all ideas and contributions are encouraged. We need this culture of courage to continue to thrive in our fast-paced industry. We embrace differences of opinion. We value diversity of experience and thought, which help us to challenge and define industry-leading solutions, and support our goal of being a great place to work.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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**About dentsu**

We are champions for meaningful progress and we strive to be a force for good—for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams