Enterprise Architect- AEP Digital Experience

• Location: San Jose, California
• Type: Contract
• Job #1957

Job Title: Enterprise Architect, Digital Experience to lead AEP Solutions
Location: Remote plus Travel
Travel: Up to 50%
Employment: Contract

About Us
Changing the world through digital experiences is what we’re all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences. We’re passionate about empowering people to craft beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen every single day.
We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to building exceptional employee experiences. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity
Digital is making usual business models obsolete and impacting every stage of the customer lifecycle. Leading companies are turning to our Marketing Cloud to help them stay ahead. Our Professional Services Team is a dynamic group of best-in-class consultants who partner with customers to define, execute, and govern digital marketing strategies so they can realize the most value from their investment. We work with senior leaders to understand the customer’s business challenges and turn their vision into reality.

An Architect’s leadership, experience, strategy, and expertise will guide multi-functional project teams through definition, deployment, and optimization stages of consulting engagements to ensure customer success.

The Architect will bring to bear their deep knowledge of digital experience and marketing technology to align enterprise and solution architecture to strategy. They are a trusted advisor to senior partners at organizations that are planning, implementing, and optimizing cross-channel digital marketing and experience initiatives.

We’re looking for digital architects who can comfortably lead enterprise-wide digital marketing technical engagements. The successful candidate will have deep digital marketing product implementation expertise, enterprise architecture, and extensive strategy, program management, and leadership experience.

The ideal candidate should have relevant experience focused on technical delivery and have excellent executive presence. The candidate should understand the importance of rock-solid digital marketing strategy in order to respond to today’s digital challenges, while having the technical domain expertise, passion, and leadership to guide our customers to successfully exploit digital technologies to build new sources of value for their customers.

If you thrive in a focused, hardworking but rewarding environment where your ideas will shape both the customer’s strategy and the forward vision of the consulting practice, then we would love to meet you!

Responsibilities

• Represent our Consulting services as the Architect and technology lead on architecture, integration, and implementation of Experience Cloud Solutions.
• Coordinate with customer stakeholder teams and own the conversation to define use cases, goals, objectives, and architecture to support business requirements.
• Build system and application architectures to achieve defined digital experience and business needs.
• Build relationships with executive and senior client leadership.
• Engage and evangelize recommendations to executive and senior client leadership teams.
• Recommend the future state of the technology architecture across the organization.
• Understand the current state of the organization-wide architecture and experience and marketing capabilities.
• Identify key business drivers and technology capabilities required to achieve clients’ optimal state.
• Anticipate future technology requirements and communicate those to the client within deliverables.
• Work closely with and act as a liaison between key business and IT experts during the entire client engagement.
• Ensure alignment between business strategies, information technology roadmap, and technical and tactical deployment teams.
• Be the trusted advisor on the ground for client leadership and partners regarding digital experience technological maturity.
• Grow the architecture practice and share on-the-ground customer feedback with product engineering and product managers to improve product capabilities.
• Evangelize the value of your role and work within the larger Consulting Group and the industry.

Requirements

• 8+ years of demonstrated ability developing enterprise architecture models and strategic roadmaps, or equivalent practical experience in a consultative role.
• Experience with Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) when it comes to AEP Enablement and architecting AEP Solutions.
• Knowledge of digital marketing and experience solutions such as Experience Cloud, CDP, or similar products.
• Understanding & experience with Microsoft Azure & Amazon AWS cloud architecture & services.
• Proven experience with architecture frameworks such as API, SOA, and TOGAF, and experience in web services.
• Experience communicating across client teams and senior leadership.
• Ability to intake client business vision and translate to technical solution and architecture requirements.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills presenting deliverables, sharing information, and leading meetings.
• Consistent track record of leading execution of architecture vision across multi-functional technical and strategy teams.
• Demonstrated experience working with PMs, software engineers, data architects, application developers, and data scientists to plan out end-to-end solutions.
• Ability to communicate technical and business strategy successfully to audiences of varying levels of experience, background, and seniority.
• Ability to travel a minimum of 50%.