Job Description

The Technology Strategy group within Merkle specializes in providing clients with holistic technology solutions across all areas of the customer experience technology stack from data management and identity, to analytics and reporting, audience management, and channel activation. With cross-functional expertise across all areas of Marketing Technology, we are developing a Solution Architecture practice that will help clients navigate through the complexities of integrating the different components of marketing technology.

We are looking for an experienced Consultant with Solution Architecture background who can straddle both business requirements and technology implementations to deliver elaborative architectures, data flows, and recommendations to meet our clients’ needs. This role requires aspects of Technical Architect as well as a Business Subject Matter Expert. The Solution Architect owns the high-level blueprint for a client’s customer experience technology ecosystem and partners with partners, principles, consultants, systems integrators, and platform architects to deliver the architecture vision aligning with related recommendations and multi-year roadmap for implementation. In some instances, it may require hands-on experience looking at client systems.

 KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Architecting and designing within the customer experience technology stack bridge business and technology requirements and ensures usability, accessibility, and performance.
• Work with business consultants, platform and data specific architects to design complex cross-channel solutions that involve the integration of various Marketing Technology platforms (Digital Messaging/Campaign Management, Database, CMS, Web Analytics, Decisioning, Personalization, Identity Management, CDP, eCommerce, and Business Intelligence platforms, Loyalty Platforms, Preference Centers, Customer Lookup Applications, vendors/application and sizing).
• Responsible and accountable for the underlying eloborative architecture of a client’s customer experience technology stack.
• Lead technology conversations with Sr. Management to present innovative tech strategies to client senior leadership teams including new technology adoption, upgrades of existing technology tools to improve overall operational efficiencies and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Ability to bridge business & technical requirements to provide a cohesive, seamless vision for the future.
• Ability to develop a viable, scalable, and integrated technology blueprint across all areas of customer experience technology with feasible technology choices that meet the clients’ requirements and fit in with existing technology.
• Ability to wear multiple technology hats across systems integration, technology consulting, and technology solution design and architecture.
• Ability to effectively communicate vision and compelling storytelling, both written and verbal, to drive client stakeholder alignment to that vision.
• Ability to participate and lead technology discussions with prospects (RFP support).

In-depth knowledge of:

• Hands-on delivery and/or certification experience with one or more customer experience technology vendors (Adobe, Salesforce, AWS, Google, Snowflake, CDPs, data solutions, digital messaging platforms, etc.).
• Real-time application integration.
• Architecture visualization tools like Lucidchart or Visio.

Working understanding of:

• Enterprise level content management systems such as AEM sites, Drupal, etc.
• Integration of real-time site optimization, test and target in tools like Optimizely, Adobe Target, SFMC Interaction Studio.
• Tag management in tools like Google Tag Manager, Ensighten, Tealium iQ, Adobe Launch.
• Concepts and best practices within database architecture, navigating both structured and unstructured data, data processing (ETL and services) and customer identity management.
• Large-scale technology implementations including understanding of scoping, estimation, and managing timeline/budget.
• Legacy migration and re-platform of technology solutions.

Additional Information

Merkle fosters a diverse environment that encourages original thinking about our business and empowers us to communicate with a global world of customers. We embrace differences of opinion and diversity of thought as they help us challenge and refine our solutions. Merkle, as a best-in-class marketing agency, welcomes big ideas, and believes they can come from anywhere. 

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

THE ANTICIPATED SALARY RANGE FOR THIS POSITION IS $113,000 - $174,500. SALARY IS BASED ON A RANGE OF FACTORS THAT INCLUDE RELEVANT EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, OTHER JOB-RELATED QUALIFICATIONS, AND GEOGRAPHY.  Additionally, this position is eligible for discretionary incentive compensation. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available. For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit dentsubenefitsplus.com.  

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