AJO Platform Architect (Contract)

Hathway: Now Bounteous; Albuquerque (NM); Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a dynamic Platform Architect to lead high-priority projects in a fast-paced digital transformation landscape. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement marketing automation solutions and optimize customer journeys. The ideal candidate will leverage their expertise in Adobe Journey Optimizer and data management to drive successful digital marketing campaigns. Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and offers a supportive environment for professional growth. If you're passionate about shaping the future of digital experiences, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 2+ years with Adobe Journey Optimizer, leading platform implementation projects.
• Strong understanding of digital marketing execution processes and audience segmentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery efforts to gather client requirements for digital marketing.
• Translate business needs into technical requirements for platform configuration.

Skills

Adobe Journey Optimizer

Data Management

Digital Marketing Technologies

Campaign Best Practices

Communication Skills

Agile Project Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Equivalent work experience

Tools

Adobe Campaign

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Braze

Marketo

JSON

XML

HTML

MJML

CSS

Job description

Bounteous is a premier end-to-end digital transformation consultancy dedicated to partnering with ambitious brands to create digital solutions for today’s complex challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. With uncompromising standards for technical and domain expertise, we deliver innovative and strategic solutions in Strategy, Analytics, Digital Engineering, Cloud, Data & AI, Experience Design, and Marketing.

Our Co-Innovation methodology is a unique engagement model designed to align interests and accelerate value creation. Our clients worldwide benefit from the skills and expertise of over 4,000+ expert team members across the Americas, APAC, and EMEA. By partnering with leading technology providers, we craft transformative digital experiences that enhance customer engagement and drive business success.

Bounteous is looking for a Platform Architect to lead high-priority platform implementation projects and ongoing platform support across marketing automation, journey orchestration, CDP, loyalty and offer management platforms. This position sits within our Technology team, but will regularly interface with a large, cross-functional team of developers, solution architects, marketing strategists and digital marketing specialists to help bring digital customer experiences to life. As such, the ideal candidate will be dynamic and flexible with a strong affinity toward data and process.

This position necessitates knowledge of varying industry trends, marketing automation enablement, campaign best practices, data management best practices and associated digital marketing technologies, so the ideal candidate should possess a desire to continually learn, improve and apply subject matter expertise to individual client needs. If you are energized by representing an award-winning, stable and growing company in a fast-moving digital transformation space, we’d like to meet you.

Role and Responsibilities

• Lead discovery efforts to gather necessary information from clients and internal team members to appropriately understand business needs and solution requirements for digital marketing efforts.
• Develop deep knowledge of each client's business and available data to ensure platform solutioning is on par with client's marketing objectives.
• Translate business needs into detailed technical requirements for platform configuration, data schemas and system integrations to deliver against business needs.
• Lead platform configuration and development of digital marketing campaigns across channels (email, SMS, push, in-app, etc).
• Oversee development, testing and deployment of platform work completed by developers.
• Provide support to development teams working on platform integrations.
• Create Architecture and Technical specifications documents.
• Serve as day-to-day technical platform SME to internal and client teams.
• Work closely with project management team to manage workflow and deadlines across multiple, simultaneous platform-related projects and change controls.
• Provide support to senior team members throughout project estimation and Marketing Technology platform discovery / roadmapping engagements, as needed.
• Provide support to internal execution services team for ongoing platform and schema optimizations, as needed.
• Direct technical implementation of features, as needed, as a minor percentage of overall responsibility.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related business or technology field, or equivalent work experience required.
• Minimum of 2 years working with Adobe Journey Optimizer and/or Journey Orchestration, with a minimum of 1 year in Journey Optimizer, with demonstrated experience leading 3+ platform implementation projects.
• Familiarity with setup/application of common AJO tasks: Channel Surfaces, Data Sources, Events, Actions, Audience Definition, Decision Management, etc.
• Familiarity with non-native activation, i.e., journey orchestration in AJO with customer interaction via external system.
• Adobe Journey Optimizer certification preferred.
• Experienced data modeler.
• Proficiency with JSON and XML.
• Experience or familiarity with HTML, MJML, CSS and responsive email coding a plus.
• Agency experience preferred, with 2+ years experience in a client-facing role and knowledge of overall agency structures and agile project management methodologies.
• Solid understanding of digital marketing execution processes, audience segmentation methods, industry best practices, communication legal compliance, and downstream campaign analysis.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Comfortable working with all levels of an organization and capable of communicating as effectively with technical staff as with business and management.
• Familiarity with a variety of marketing automation platforms and marketing cloud solutions a plus (Adobe Campaign, Adobe Journey Optimizer, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Braze, Marketo or similar).

Bounteous is focused on promoting an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate the different viewpoints and experiences our diverse group of team members bring to Bounteous. Bounteous does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Bounteous is willing to sponsor eligible candidates for employment visas.

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