Company Description

Merkle is a leading data-driven, technology-enabled, global performance marketing agency that specializes in the delivery of unique, personalized customer experiences across platforms and devices. For more than 30 years, Fortune 1000 companies and leading nonprofit organizations have partnered with us to maximize the value of their customer portfolios. Our heritage in data, technology, and analytics forms the foundation for its unmatched skills in understanding consumer insights that inform people-based marketing strategies. Our combined strengths in performance media, customer experience, customer relationship management, loyalty, and enterprise marketing technology promote improvwed marketing results and competitive advantage. With 9,600 employees, we are headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, with 24 additional offices in the US and 29 offices in Europe and APAC. In 2016, the agency joined the Dentsu Aegis Network.

Job Description

Role Purpose

You will create solution architectures for systems ensuring all recommendations are explored for time, cost and compliance to our client policies while meeting the business requirements. We are looking for an effective Audience Platform Lead to join our team. You will report to the CDP Delivery Lead

Important Responsibilities

Design and present 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 agreement of requirements, Merkle policies, and 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 Clients standard reference models
Identifies CDP enhancements, extending frameworks and incorporating new ideas
Creates necessary workflows to extract data, transform the data & load the data into CDP
Data Transformation & ETL through custom development & automated solution
Data Ingestion through custom development to meet Client requirements
Streaming: Architect and develop ongoing solutions to ingest customer data in more real-time using streaming technology
Batch: Architect and develop ongoing solutions to automate batch ingestion for AEP customers
Deploys final solution to a production environment (or Client end-state environment)
Identifies and resolve issues related to overall platform performance from data ingestion to data distribution
Identifies, creates, enhances internal systems and services based on recurring client requests and evolving industry standards
Post-Deployment, may provide ongoing maintenance & support of solution & knowledge transfer to appointed team

Qualifications

3+ 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.
Keeps 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 main technologies and best practices
Experience with activation platforms and concepts (e.g. CMS, DAM, ad serving)
Effectively works independently and under guidance.
Experience with data security/privacy best practices

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

Additional Information

The anticipated salary range for this position is $95,000-$100,000. Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills and other factors permitted by law. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available. For more information about dentsu benefits, please visit dentsubenefitsplus.com

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This is a remote role.