Solution Architect, Customer Data

Knowit Training

  • Houston, Texas
  • 7 days ago
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    Skills

    • Adobe Product Familyunmatched
    • Adtechunmatched
    • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
    • Architectural Analysisunmatched
    • Architectural Designunmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Automationunmatched
    • Clickstreamunmatched
    • Cloud Computingunmatched
    • Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS)unmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Computer Scienceunmatched
    • Content Management Systems (CMS)unmatched
    • Cost Analysisunmatched
    • Cost Controlunmatched
    • Customer Relationsunmatched
    • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Systemsunmatched
    • Customer/Client Researchunmatched
    • Data Analysisunmatched
    • Data Scienceunmatched
    • Data Warehousingunmatched
    • DevOpsunmatched
    • Digital Asset Management Software (DAM)unmatched
    • Economicsunmatched
    • Ecosystemsunmatched
    • Enterprise Architectureunmatched
    • Google Analyticsunmatched
    • Identity Data Managementunmatched
    • Loyalty Programsunmatched
    • Maintain Complianceunmatched
    • Make-Versus-Buy Analysisunmatched
    • Marketingunmatched
    • Marketing Automation Softwareunmatched
    • Master Data Management (MDM)unmatched
    • Microservicesunmatched
    • Multiplatform/Cross-Platformunmatched
    • Network Supportunmatched
    • Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
    • Privacy Regulationsunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Regulatory Complianceunmatched
    • Retailunmatched
    • Salesforce.comunmatched
    • Short Messaging Service (SMS)unmatched
    • Software Developmentunmatched
    • Standards Developmentunmatched
    • Systems Analysisunmatched
    • Systems Engineeringunmatched
    • Team Playerunmatched
    • Technical Strategyunmatched
    • Use Casesunmatched
    • Vendor/Supplier Planningunmatched

    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. 

    Qualification:  
    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Or a realted 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 
    • Cloud Platforms: GCP preferred (AWS/Azure acceptable) 
    • Integration Patterns: APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pub/Sub) 
    • Data Platforms: Data lakes, data warehouses, Lakehouse patterns, structured and unstructured databases 
    • Customer Data Governance: Consent management, data lineage, auditability, data contracts 
    • Architecture Strategy: Build vs buy evaluation, platform scalability, cost optimization, real-time vs batch tradeoffs 
    • AI/GenAI adoption: Leveraging AI/GenAI across marketing use cases and software development to drive personalization, automation, and engineering efficiency. 
    • Process Automation: DevOps, AIOps & automation frameworks for Martech 
    • Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to simplify complex concepts for business and executive stakeholders. 
    • Strong problem-solving, creativity, and ability to balance technical rigor with business value.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationHouston, Texas

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