
Principal Solution Architect
Acxiom
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Serve as the solution architecture lead across the full platform lifecycle: discovery, design, and implementation
- Partner with strategy leads to translate business goals into technical architectures and executable roadmaps
- Lead client working sessions to define requirements around campaign workflows and operational dependencies, customer data models, metadata structures, and identity-aware audience frameworks
- Ensure alignment between business use cases and technical feasibility, offering pragmatic alternatives when needed
- Design and own end-to-end marketing data architecture, including: Data ingestion (Bronze), transformation (Silver), and consumption layers (Gold)
- Define: Data grain, conformance logic, and key joins, KPI logic and aggregation strategies
- Design customer data models that support identity stitching, audience persistence, and cross-channel activation
- Ensure data models are traceable, repeatable, and production-ready
- Define solution blueprints across modern marketing ecosystems, including: Cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift), Clean rooms and CAPI integrations
- Lead architecture through build and deployment phases, ensuring that designs translate into production-ready solutions
Requirements
- 8+ years in solution architecture, data architecture, or platform implementation, with a strong focus on marketing and customer data
- Proven experience delivering end-to-end solutions (not just designing, but implementing)
- Deep expertise in: Marketing data ecosystems and campaign workflows, Cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, etc.), Data modeling and transformation (SQL-heavy environments)
- Strong understanding of: Campaign execution, audience targeting, and suppression logic, Marketing measurement frameworks (attribution, lift, etc.)
- Experience working with identity resolution and customer data frameworks (e.g., ID stitching, audience persistence, or partner integrations)
- Experience with: Multi-layer data architectures (e.g., Bronze / Silver / Gold), Source-to-target mappings, ERDs, data dictionaries, and KPI definitions, Complex metric calculations (from a data perspective)
- Ability to: Translate business ambiguity into structured technical solutions, Communicate architecture clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong familiarity with: Martech ecosystem (CDPs, CRM, campaign platforms), Data governance and privacy considerations.
Benefits
- This position is not eligible for any sort of sponsorship
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Hard Skills & Tools
solution architecturedata architecturedata modelingdata transformationSQLKPI definitionscomplex metric calculationsidentity resolutioncampaign workflowsdata ingestion
Soft Skills
communicationtranslating business goalsproblem-solvingstakeholder engagementleadershipcollaborationpragmatic thinkingrequirement definitiontechnical feasibility assessmentstructured solution development