
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
Tech Stack
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