Martech Solutions Architect - AEP

twentysix; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

VML MAP, part of the WPP family, is seeking a Solutions Architect specialized in Adobe Campaign to lead architecture across the marketing cloud and related integrations in a hybrid Toronto-based team.

You will translate complex business needs into scalable technical solutions, drive data governance, privacy compliance, and collaborate with architects, developers, and clients to deliver robust marketing technology solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience with Adobe Campaign and marketing technology ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of data privacy regulations (GDPR/CCPA).
• Proven ability to lead client-facing engagements and translate requirements into scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect blueprints for projects within a single marketing cloud (Adobe).
• Create data integrations across marketing technologies with data privacy in mind.
• Evaluate new technologies and provide strategic recommendations.
• Design solutions enabling cross-technology data analysis for insights.
• Ensure proper use and configuration of platforms to meet business requirements.
• Lead governance and integrations for the marketing cloud and future-proof operations.

Skills

Adobe Campaign

Data governance

Marketing technology integration

SQL

JavaScript

XML

JSON

Data privacy knowledge

Strategic technical leadership

Client-facing engagements

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Adobe Campaign

RTCDP

AJO

CJA

AEP

Adobe Analytics

Adobe Target

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Job description

Who We Are

VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

Do you want to strategically design and architect comprehensive technical solutions that integrate multiple marketing technologies to create cohesive, hyper-personalized customer journeys for some of the world's largest brands? Are you driven by transforming complex business needs into innovative, scalable, and future-proof solutions across leading CRM and marketing automation platforms? Then you might be just the Solutions Architect we’re looking for!

What will your day look like?

As our new Solutions Architect -specialising in adobe campaign, you will be responsible for supervising the architecture of full solutions, including all products used within a marketing cloud and related integrations. You will act as a strategic technical leader, working closely with stakeholders to understand complex business needs and develop technical documentation and solutions that align with those needs across multiple marketing technologies. Your role will involve ensuring data consistency, accuracy, and compliance with data privacy regulations across integrated systems.

More specifically, you will:

• Strategically design and architect blueprints for projects that involve one or more products within a single marketing cloud (adobe), always maximizing marketing effectiveness and efficiency.
• Design data integrations between different marketing technologies, ensuring data is consistent, accurate, and complies with data privacy regulations across systems.
• Evaluate new technologies and tools to determine their potential impact on existing systems and provide strategic recommendations.
• Design solutions that enable data to be analyzed across multiple marketing technologies, providing actionable insights.
• Ensure that technical solutions are properly utilized together, leveraging the unique capabilities from each platform and ensuring configurations address specific business requirements in accordance with the client strategy.
• Manage data & system governance and integrations for the corresponding marketing cloud, ensuring the future-proofing of products and operations in scope.
• Propose ideas for improving or optimizing existing integrated marketing solutions, including the utilization of new features and modules.
• Ensure solutions adhere to data security standards, privacy regulations (such as GDPR and CCPA), and company policies.
• Solve complex challenges that involve multiple products, focusing on scalability and performance, with a client-minded approach.
• Identify and resolve technical issues that may arise within the marketing technology ecosystem, often acting as a point of escalation for complex problems.
• Collaborate with different client departments to understand their goals, challenges, and processes, and translate these requirements into technical solutions that apply across multiple products.
• Identify opportunities for system enhancements, staying aware of the latest MarTech trends (per industry) to continuously drive innovation.
• Elaborate architecture solutions and diagrams for covering complex client use cases.
• Build impact assessments to identify the feasibility of certain solutions and measure improvement uplift.
• Design and operationalize batch, stream, and real-time data integrations.

Who are you going to work with?

You join the technical leadership team, collaborating closely with Architects, Developers, and Technical Project Managers within our 100+ strong technical department. You will also work extensively with account teams, Data Specialists, and our clients’ technical leadership, acting as a key technical liaison.

We value room for diversity, and you will get a chance to put a personal touch on your daily tasks while developing your professional skillset. We are proud of our multicultural environment and easy-going, dynamic atmosphere where we not only work together – we are great at having fun as well.

What do you bring to the table?

As a person, you are a strategic thinker, a proactive problem-solver, and an influential communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. You possess a deep understanding of the entire project lifecycle and can translate sophisticated business requirements into robust, scalable, and integrated technical solutions. You are adept at utilizing all MAP expertise and WoW to support client technical leadership.

In addition, you have:

• 7+ years of progressive experience in a Solutions Architect or Lead Technical Consultant role, with extensive experience in Adobe campaign.
• Ability to design and maximize the use of : Adobe Campaign, RTCDP, AJO, CJA and AEP (data management)
• Knowledge to discuss and support: AEM, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target
• Proven experience in strategic technical planning, including vendor investigation, evaluation, and recommendations.
• Deep expertise in designing and integrating multiple marketing technologies (e.g., Salesforce Marketing Cloud with other CRM, analytics, or advertising platforms).
• Extensive knowledge of technologies such as SQL, XML, JSON, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and proficiency in one or more programming languages.
• Expertise in Workflow Engines, advanced database design and modeling, and data governance best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to lead client-facing engagements, manage complex project deadlines, and ensure solutions are delivered within agreed budgets and scope.
• A strong understanding of data security standards, privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA), and their application in marketing technology solutions.
• A track record of identifying opportunities for system enhancements and driving innovation by staying abreast of the latest MarTech trends.

A leader in personalized customer experiences

VML MAP is a world-leading Centre of Excellence that helps businesses humanize the relationship between the brand and the customer through hyper personalization at scale, marketing automation and CRM. With the brain of a consultancy, the heart of an agency and the power of technology and data, we work with some of the world's most admired brands to help them on their transformation journey to becoming truly customer-centric. Together, we are 1000 + technology specialists, data scientists, strategic thinkers, consultants, operations experts, and creative minds from 55+ nationalities.

A global network

We are part of the global VML network that encompasses more than 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 60+ markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences.

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office an average of four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

WPP (VML) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

VML is a WPP agency (NYSE: WPP). For more information,please visit www.vml.com, andfollowalong on Instagram,LinkedIn, and X.