
CDP Architect
Bounteous
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
Visit company websiteSalary
💰 $110,000 - $150,000 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
Amazon RedshiftAWSAzureBigQueryCloudETLGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptPythonSQL
About the role
- Serve as the primary platform expert for Adobe RTCDP, advising on architecture, governance, and best practices.
- Architect data models, schemas, datasets, and mappings aligned with GSAM and enterprise-scale AEP and CDP requirements.
- Design and document identity strategies including identity namespaces, stitching rules, and profile merging logic.
- Manage user roles and permissions in AEP to ensure proper access controls.
- Oversee system health and lead engineers through regular maintenance protocols to ensure compliance with organizational policies.
- Architect for Federated Audience Composition (FAC) and federated data access patterns to enable cross-system audience building and data usage.
- Plan and oversee data ingestion pipelines, including batch, streaming, SDK and API, ensuring integrity, completeness, and privacy compliance.
- Ensure datasets are properly enabled for Profile with global, domestic, and telecommunications-specific consent and data quality controls built into the ingestion strategy and data structures.
- Partner with Data Engineers to implement XDM schemas, plan data ingestion and dataset enablement, transformations, event pipelines, and monitoring.
- Define and optimize segmentation and activation strategies across AEP destinations and downstream systems.
- Align RTCDP architecture with enterprise data governance, privacy policies, and global data models.
- Lead discovery sessions to define use cases, identify data requirements, and uncover technical constraints.
- Create and present solution architecture documentation, including dataflow diagrams, identity maps, and destination activation models.
- Advise clients on privacy, consent, identity management, and governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with global policies.
- Provide expert guidance on CDP operational models, adoption patterns, and maturity roadmaps.
- Guide Data Engineers, Analysts, and partner teams throughout build, QA, and deployment cycles.
- Validate data models, ingestion mappings, and identity stitching for accuracy and scalability.
- Support activation teams through segmentation enablement and data readiness checks.
- Contribute to Bounteous CDP Centers of Excellence, frameworks, accelerators, and reusable delivery assets.
Requirements
- 7 to 10 or more years of experience in marketing technology, MarTech architecture, or data engineering.
- Several full end-to-end Adobe RTCDP implementations completed, including architecture, ingestion, identity design, and activation.
- 3 or more years of hands-on Adobe RTCDP and AEP experience, including XDM schema design, profile enablement, ingestion, and identity resolution.
- Experienced with APIs, streaming ingestion, and ETL or ELT pipelines.
- Experience designing for federated data architectures, including Federated Audience Composition (FAC).
- Strong understanding of Identity Service, stitching logic, profile merging, and multi-source identity and privacy challenges.
- Experience with Adobe Tags (Launch), Adobe Analytics, CJA, and Journey Optimizer strongly preferred.
- Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and data warehouses such as Snowflake, Salesforce CDP, Segment, BigQuery, or Redshift.
- Knowledge of privacy, consent, data governance, GDPR or CCPA, and enterprise security models.
- Proficient understanding of programming languages such as Python, Javascript, or SQL.
- Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication, collaboration, solution documentation, and client-facing consulting skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Adobe RTCDPAEPXDM schema designdata ingestionidentity resolutionAPIsETLELTprogramming languagesdata modeling
Soft skills
analytical skillsproblem solvingcommunicationcollaborationsolution documentationclient-facing consulting
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Data EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Information Systems