Lead Solutions Architect - Remote

Company Description

Merkle is a data-driven, technology-enabled, global performance marketing agency 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 agency's heritage in data, technology, and analytics forms the foundation for its unmatched skills in understanding consumer insights that inspire people-based marketing strategies. Its combined strengths in performance media, customer experience, customer relationship management, loyalty, and enterprise marketing technology guide improved marketing results and competitive advantage. With 9,600+ employees, Merkle is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, with 50+ additional offices throughout the US, EMEA, and APAC. In 2016, the agency joined the Dentsu Aegis Network. For more information, contact Merkle at 1-877-9-Merkle or visit www.merkleinc.com.

Job Description

• You will create solution architectures for systems ensuring all recommendations are explored for time, cost and compliance to our client policies while meeting the business' requirements.
• You will design and present technical solution with all data ingestion, transformation, and scheduling to review with our client
• You will analyze customer use cases, available data to prepare for automated & ongoing data ingestion to meet customer requirements
• You will ensure understanding of requirements with Merkle policies, and with industry best practices
• You will create solution design options based on requirements and the standards, patterns and procedures of our client
• You will architect data feeds, design platform configurations and components needed to run complex automated campaigns
• You will complete solution design documentation, including input into our client's standard reference models
• You will identify CDP enhancements, extending frameworks and incorporating new ideas
• You will develop necessary workflows to extract data, transform the data and load the data into CDP
• You will be involved with data Transformation and ETL through custom development and automated solution
• You will be involved with data Ingestion through custom development to meet client requirements
• Streaming: You will architect and develop ongoing solutions to ingest customer data in more real-time using streaming technology
• Batch: You will architect and develop ongoing solutions to automate batch ingestion for AEP customers
• You will deploy final solution to a production environment (or Client end-state environment)
• You will report into the CDP, Delivery Lead. This is a remote role.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Platform: (any of RT-CDP, AJO, CJA)
• Experience working in an agency …