Empower

Marketing Technology Solutions Architect

Empower

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $114,000 - $165,300 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Define and evolve solution architecture patterns and roadmaps for marketing and communications capabilities.
  • Partner with marketing, digital, product, engineering, data, and security teams to align business priorities with technology solutions.
  • Design end-to-end solutions spanning customer engagement platforms, web and CMS ecosystems, customer data flows, messaging channels, APIs, analytics, and downstream enterprise systems.
  • Create reusable reference architectures and integration patterns for customer data exchange, identity, personalization, and journey orchestration.
  • Guide modernization of legacy and point-to-point integrations toward API-first, event-driven, and cloud-based architectures.
  • Collaborate with delivery teams on solution design, interface contracts, nonfunctional requirements, and implementation tradeoffs.
  • Evaluate and recommend platform and integration options, including buy vs. build considerations, across the marketing technology landscape.
  • Ensure solutions address security, privacy, consent, resiliency, observability, accessibility, and supportability requirements.
  • Support architecture reviews, proof-of-concept efforts, and governance processes.
  • Communicate architecture direction, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to technical and business stakeholders.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise applications, digital platforms, or customer-facing technology solutions.
  • 5+ years of experience in solution architecture, technical design leadership, or a closely related architecture role.
  • Experience designing integrated solutions across some combination of web platforms, CRM, messaging channels, APIs, analytics, and customer data flows.
  • Working knowledge of marketing and communications concepts such as campaign orchestration, customer journeys, segmentation, personalization, consent management, event tracking, and measurement.
  • Hands-on experience with modern integration patterns including APIs, asynchronous messaging, microservices, or event-driven architecture.
  • Experience with cloud-based solution design, preferably on AWS or a comparable cloud platform.
  • Understanding of web and digital experience architecture, including CMS concepts, performance, caching, and secure customer-facing design.
  • Knowledge of data integration and analytics patterns that support audience activation, customer insights, and campaign measurement.
  • Ability to communicate architecture tradeoffs and influence decisions across cross-functional teams.
  • Familiarity with security and privacy fundamentals such as OAuth, encryption, secure SDLC, OWASP awareness, and privacy-by-design principles.
Benefits
  • Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
  • Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
  • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
  • Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
  • Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
  • Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
  • Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
  • Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
solution architectureAPI designevent-driven architecturecloud-based solutionsintegration patternsmicroservicesdata integrationanalyticscustomer data flowsweb platforms
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationinfluenceleadershipproblem-solvingstakeholder managementtradeoff analysistechnical designgovernancemodernization