Dentsu/Merkle is a modern marketing solutions company. Our mission is to help clients navigate, progress and thrive in a world of change. Businesses rely on our integrated network of agencies and specialized practices to champion meaningful progress through creative, media, commerce, data and technology. Part of Dentsu Group, our global network comprises 66,000 diverse people in 143 countries, who are dedicated to teaming for growth and good. Some of our award-winning agencies include 360i, Carat, dentsu mcgarrybowen, DEG, dentsuX, iProspect and Merkle. Follow us on Twitter @DentsuUSA and visit dentsu.com/us.

We are champions for meaningful progress and we strive to be a force for good—for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all.

The purpose of this role is to create solution architectures for systems and platforms ensuring all relevant options are explored for time, cost and compliance to the Client policies and practices while meeting the business’ requirements. We are looking for a highly effective Solution Architect to join our team.

Key Responsibilities

• Design technical solution with all data ingestion, transformation & scheduling to review & sign-off with Client.
• Analyze customer use cases, available data to prepare for automated & ongoing data ingestion to meet customer requirements.
• Ensures alignment of business requirements with Merkle standards and policies, and with industry best practices
• Creates solution design options based on requirements and the standards, patterns and procedures of the Client.
• Architect data feeds, design platform configurations and components needed to run complex automated campaigns.
• Completes detailed solution design documentation, including input into the Client’s standard reference models
• Identifies CDP enhancements, extending frameworks and incorporating new ideas
• Designs and builds necessary workflows to extract data, transform the data & load the data into CDP successfully
• Data Transformation & ETL through custom development & automated solution
• Data Ingestion through custom development to meet Client requirements
  • Streaming: Architect & develop ongoing solutions to ingest customer data in more real-time using streaming technology
  • Batch: Architect & develop ongoing solutions to automate batch ingestion for AEP customers
• Deploys final solution to a production environment (or Client end-state environment)
• Proactively identifies and resolve issues related to overall platform performance from data ingestion to data distribution
• Identifies, creates, enhances internal systems/processes and services based on recurring client requests and/or evolving industry standards
• Post-Deployment, may provide ongoing maintenance & support of solution & knowledge transfer to appointed team

• 3-5+ years of hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Platform: (any of RT-CDP, AJO, CJA)
• Experience working in an agency or consulting company across multiple industries.
• Proactive. Keeping current on market tends ever-shifting industry.
• Successful experience collaborating on large, complex deals and leading teams.
• Personal technical credibility, through direct experience of leading and inspiring teams (directly or indirectly) on key technologies and best practices 
• Experience with activation platforms and concepts (e.g. CMS, DAM, ad serving)
• Effectively works independently and under guidance.
• Solid understanding of data security/privacy best practice

Solid Understanding Of:

• Software development and Agile delivery
• Platform architecture with focus on data ingress and egress
• XDM & Mix-Ins (for data modelling)
• Relational database concepts, with exposure to SQL
• Data management, segmentation, ETL best practices
• Scripting and query development
• Data processing – API, Batch.  Specifically – using tools such as Swagger to build and present data relationships across solutions.

At Merkle, we believe that a diverse environment improves us as a community and as a business. We want to foster an environment of growth, where all ideas and contributions are encouraged. We need this culture of courage to continue to thrive in our fast-paced industry. We embrace differences of opinion. We value diversity of experience and thought, which help us to challenge and define industry-leading solutions, and support our goal of being a great place to work.

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

The anticipated salary range for this position is $131,000-$191,000. Salary is based on a wide range of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and geography.  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 https://dentsubenefitsplus.com/  

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About dentsu 
Dentsu is the network designed for what’s next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities in the sustainable economy. Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, dentsu combines Japanese innovation with a diverse, global perspective to drive client growth and to shape society www.dentsu.com. 

We are champions for meaningful progress and we strive to be a force for good—for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all.

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