AI-Ready Marketing Data Platform Lead

Lumen; Frankfort (KY); On-site; USD 132,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Lifestyle benefits

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Senior Lead Marketing Data Platform Architect to define and govern a scalable, AI‑ready marketing data platform. You will shape the long‑term vision, set architectural standards, and partner with Adobe, Salesforce, analytics, and engineering teams to drive personalization and measurement.

This role demands deep Databricks expertise, lakehouse architecture, and a proactive approach to data governance, automation, and platform modernization, delivering trusted data products

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering or platform architecture.
• Hands-on Databricks expertise (Delta Lake, Spark, governance)
• Experience with lakehouse architectures and enterprise-scale data platforms.
• Strong SQL and data modeling skills.
• Experience designing AI-driven data solutions and automation.
• Knowledge of metadata management, lineage, observability, and data governance.
• Familiarity with Adobe's and Salesforce ecosystems.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Own the architectural vision, governance, performance, and long-term evolution of Lumen's marketing data platform.
• Lead design, implementation, and operational strategy of Databricks as the strategic platform for marketing data and intelligence.
• Define and maintain scalable data architectures that support analytics, reporting, customer intelligence, personalization, activation, and AI-driven use cases.
• Establish platform standards for data modeling, ingestion, orchestration, observability, testing, security, and environment promotion.
• Design and govern reusable data products that enable trusted, consistent access to marketing data across the organization.
• Drive modernization initiatives that improve platform scalability, simplify architecture, reduce technical debt, and accelerate delivery.
• Define governance standards for metadata management, lineage, schema control, data quality, and lifecycle management.
• Design for AI-native and agentic operations, including automated quality controls, monitoring, validation, testing, deployment, and operational intelligence.
• Partner with Adobe, Salesforce, analytics, engineering, and business teams to ensure seamless integration across the marketing technology ecosystem.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and architectural patterns that improve platform performance, automation, and business value.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to engineers, analysts, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Lead architecture reviews, establish design standards, and document technical decisions that support long-term platform sustainability.

Skills

Databricks

Delta Lake

Spark

Lakehouse Architecture

Data Modeling

SQL

Adobe Experience Platform

Salesforce Architecture

Data Governance

Stakeholder Management

AI-driven data

Cloud data platforms

Education

Databricks / Azure / Adobe / Salesforce certifications

Tools

Marketo

Demandbase

ZoomInfo

Dun & Bradstreet

Quantum Metric

Copilot

Azure

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Senior Lead Marketing Data Platform Architect to define and govern a scalable, AI‑ready marketing data platform. You will shape the long‑term vision, set architectural standards, and partner with Adobe, Salesforce, analytics, and engineering teams to drive personalization and measurement.

This role demands deep Databricks expertise, lakehouse architecture, and a proactive approach to data governance, automation, and platform modernization, delivering trusted data products