Senior Martech Consultant

Merkle Nederland; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 117,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

Merkle Nederland, part of Merkle, a dentsu company, seeks a Senior Martech Solution Consultant to define the technical direction for large-scale personalization and customer experience transformations. You translate ambitions into architectures, roadmaps, and pragmatic delivery approaches across marketing, sales, and service.

Lead vendor evaluations, design future-state architectures, and guide senior stakeholders through complex multi-site enterprise environments, embedding AI into the roadmap

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Martech, CX, digital architecture, or technology consulting.
• Strong experience with enterprise Martech platforms such as Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Data Cloud, Customer 360; Adobe Experience Platform, Journey Optimizer, Analytics; Braze or comparable engagement platforms.
• Proven experience translating future-state vision into technical architecture, roadmaps, and implementation approaches.
• Experience with vendor selection, road mapping, and implementation planning.
• Strong understanding of data, identity, orchestration, and integration concepts.
• Strong analytical skills to assess solution scenarios across technology, organisation, skills, and operating models.
• Experience guiding clients through complex architecture and transformation decisions.
• Trusted advisor to senior IT stakeholders, architects, and business leaders.
• Comfortable operating in complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise environments.
• Able to clearly explain architectural decisions and consequences to non-technical audiences.
• Structured, pragmatic, and outcome-driven, with a strong consulting mindset.

Responsibilities

• Assess existing Martech platforms, integrations, and architectural constraints.
• Design future-state technical and solution architectures that drive new capabilities.
• Translate strategic use cases into platform, vendor, and capability implications.
• Compare and recommend architecture and vendor scenarios.
• Support vendor evaluation and selection with clear trade-offs and recommendations.
• Define implementation roadmaps and high-level delivery approaches.
• Provide architectural guidance and decision support across internal teams, vendors, and client stakeholders.
• Embed AI capabilities and implications into the overall vision, architecture, and roadmap.
• Clearly communicate architectural decisions and their impact to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Martech strategy

Enterprise architecture

Vendor evaluation

Data integration concepts

Stakeholder influence

Platform-agnostic mindset

Tools

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Salesforce Data Cloud

Salesforce Customer 360

Adobe Experience Platform

Adobe Journey Optimizer

Adobe Analytics

Braze

Job description

Job Description

Senior Martech Consultant: As a Senior Martech Solution Consultant, you define the technical direction of large-scale personalisation ambitions and customer experience transformations. You translate future-state ambitions into concrete technical architectures, covering platform choices, integrations, delivery sequencing, and execution approaches.

To do so, you assess complex existing martech landscapes and design future-state architectures that enable advanced personalisation, decision-making, and orchestration capabilities across marketing, sales, and service. From there, you lead vendor scenario analysis and selection and translate architectural choices into phased roadmaps and high-level implementation plans.

You act as the architectural authority and sparring partner for senior business and IT stakeholders, working closely with strategy consultants, business analysts, and project managers to bridge vision and execution.

• Locations: Rotterdam and Amsterdam
• Time type: Full time
• Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)

What You Will Do

• Assess existing Martech platforms, integrations, and architectural constraints
• Design future-state technical and solution architectures that drive new capabilities
• Translate strategic use cases into platform, vendor, and capability implications
• Compare and recommend architecture and vendor scenarios
• Support vendor evaluation and selection with clear trade-offs and recommendations
• Define implementation roadmaps and high-level delivery approaches
• Provide architectural guidance and decision support across internal teams, vendors, and client stakeholders
• Embed AI capabilities and implications into the overall vision, architecture, and roadmap
• Clearly communicate architectural decisions and their impact to senior stakeholders

AI & Personalisation Perspective

AI is an integral part of this role: not as a bolt-on, but as a driver of future vision, strategic concepts, and roadmap decisions. You help clients understand how AI reshapes personalisation, decision-making, and time-to-value.

You guide clients from experimentation toward structural, scalable AI adoption within their Martech landscape.

Qualifications & Experience

• 7+ years of experience in Martech, CX, digital architecture, or technology consulting
• Strong experience with enterprise Martech platforms such as Salesforce (Marketing Cloud, Data Cloud, Customer 360); Adobe (Experience Platform, Journey Optimizer, Analytics); Braze or comparable engagement platforms
• Proven experience translating future-state vision into technical architecture, roadmaps, and implementation approaches
• Experience with vendor selection, road mapping, and implementation planning
• Strong understanding of data, identity, orchestration, and integration concepts
• Strong analytical skills to assess solution scenarios across technology, organisation, skills, and operating models
• Experience guiding clients through complex architecture and transformation decisions
• Trusted advisor to senior IT stakeholders, architects, and business leaders
• Comfortable operating in complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise environments
• Able to clearly explain architectural decisions and consequences to non-technical audiences
• Structured, pragmatic, and outcome-driven, with a strong consulting mindset
• Platform-agnostic with the ability to focus on capabilities rather than tools

Why This Role Will Help You Grow

• You work on strategy-to-execution transformation engagements
• You influence long-term Martech and AI-driven personalization strategies
• You operate at architectural board and decision-making level
• You help clients turn ambition into executable, future-ready roadmaps
• You collaborate with talented colleagues who enjoy delivering impact while having fun together

Company Description

Merkle, a dentsu company, powers the experience economy. For more than 35 years, we've put people at the heart of digital business transformation. As the world's only integrated experience consultancy with deep roots in data science and business performance, Merkle delivers holistic, end-to-end experiences that drive growth, engagement, and loyalty.

Merkle’s expertise has earned recognition as a “Leader” by top industry analyst firms in digital transformation, commerce, experience design, engineering and technology integration, digital marketing, data science, CRM and loyalty, and customer data management.

With more than 16,000 employees globally, Merkle operates across 30+ countries in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions. In Denmark, we have over 300 talented colleagues working from offices in Copenhagen and Aarhus.