Architect IT Solutions Data and Martech

Harris County, TX (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive design authority for customer data and marketing technology, shaping CDP & Customer 360 architectures and cross-channel activation.

  • Own or define target-state architectures for CDP, Customer Master Data, and activation across channels.
  • Must-have: 8+ years in customer data, data engineering, or MarTech with architecture experience in personalization and engagement solutions.
  • Standout: Experience evaluating MarTech/AdTech platforms and optimizing cost and usage.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Architecture & Design: Define and deliver solution architectures for CDP, Customer Master Data, Customer 360, marketing automation, personalization, and attribution ecosystems. Establish target-state architecture across CDP, Data Warehouse, and Customer Master Data with clear separation of concerns between data mastering, activation, and analytics.
  • Integration: Ensure seamless connectivity between MarTech platforms, AdTech tools, data platforms, CMS/DAM systems, and analytics ecosystems.
  • Identity & Governance: Define and govern identity resolution, enterprise customer ID strategy, and consent enforcement, ensuring compliance with privacy regulations and enterprise data policies.
  • Personalization & Decisioning: Architect real-time and batch decisioning frameworks, enabling scalable personalization, experimentation, and ML-driven customer engagement.
  • Data & Content Technology Strategy: Define standards for data flows, identity management, customer mastering approaches, and content governance across platforms.
  • Retail Media & Activation: Enable first-party data activation across paid media and Retail Media Networks, supporting audience creation, targeting, and monetization.
  • Vendor Strategy & Cost Optimization: Evaluate MarTech and AdTech platforms, drive build vs buy decisions, and optimize platform usage and cost, including CDP unit economics.
  • Innovation & Strategy: Stay ahead of trends in MarTech, AdTech, AI, and analytics, recommending new technologies and approaches that drive measurable business outcomes.
  • Governance & Oversight: Serve as design authority for customer data and marketing technology, ensuring scalability, security, compliance, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
  • Collaboration: Partner with Marketing, Product, IT, Data Science, and vendors to align on roadmaps, define capability-driven Architecture models, and deliver reusable, scalable solutions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field (master’s degree a plus).
  • 8+ years of experience in customer data, data engineering, or MarTech domains, with at least 3 years in marketing technology architecture, including personalization and customer engagement solutions
  • MarTech data domain expert skilled in customer data, clickstream, identity resolution, segmentation, and activation across owned, paid, and partner channels
  • Proven expertise in CDP (COTS or in-house), Customer Master Data management, CRM/loyalty systems, and Customer 360 solutions.
  • Experience defining identity resolution strategies (first-party, hybrid, and third-party) and understanding tradeoffs across CDP, data warehouse, and external identity providers.
  • Experience implementing privacy, consent management, and data governance frameworks, including consent enforcement and data lineage.
  • Experience designing architectures for personalization, ML decisioning, loyalty programs, closed-loop measurement, and attribution.
  • Hands-on experience with marketing automation platforms (ESP/SMS/Push) integrated with customer data and analytics platforms.
  • End-to-end experience across the MarTech and AdTech stack, spanning CDP, Customer Master Data, personalization engines, paid media platforms, analytics, attribution, and customer data activation.
  • Background integrating CMS/DAM platforms with personalization and engagement ecosystems.
  • Experience supporting Retail Media Networks (RMN), audience monetization, and paid media activation using first-party data.
  • Experience evaluating and selecting MarTech /AdTech platforms, including build vs buy decisions and vendor architecture assessments.
  • Skilled in high-volume, high-velocity data ingestion architectures (batch and streaming).
  • Experience working with Data Science teams to operationalize ML models into customer-facing workflows.
  • Exposure to AI-driven engagement, automation, and GenAI is considered a plus.
  • Proficiency with MarTech/AdTech platforms such as Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Adobe Experience Cloud, Braze, HubSpot, Google Analytics, or similar ecosystems.
  • Customer Data: Customer Data Platforms, Customer Data Warehouse, Customer Master Data, Customer 360
  • Identity Resolution: First-party, hybrid, and third-party identity graphs, deterministic and probabilistic matching
  • Marketing Platforms: ESP/SMS/Push, CRM, CMS/DAM, personalization, and decisioning engines
  • AdTech/Media: Paid media platforms, attribution frameworks, Retail Media Networks, audience activation

Preferred

  • Exposure to AI-driven engagement, automation, and GenAI is considered a plus.
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