Data Architect

Merkle Italia; Georgia; Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, and dental insurance

401k with company match

Flexible paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

Dentsu is seeking a Senior Data Architect to design and implement enterprise-grade data models and ingestion pipelines using Adobe Experience Platform (AEP).

The ideal candidate will lead end-to-end data migrations, ensure data quality and governance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure data solutions in a remote-based role in Georgia, USA.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on data architecture, data modeling, SQL development, and analytics platform experience.
• Advanced SQL skills including window functions, joins, aggregations, and query optimization.
• Experience auditing, assessing, and documenting data components of implementations.

Responsibilities

• Build data solutions across Adobe products and cloud platforms aligned with enterprise data strategy.
• Unify disparate data sources to meet digital marketing use cases within a single AEP foundation.
• Design AEP data models across Analytics, Content, and Commerce domains and develop ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Collaborate with data engineers to ensure data quality, governance, and security.
• Shape data layouts and blueprints for scalable data activations and migrations.

Skills

Data modeling

SQL development

REST APIs

Python or Bash

Data governance

Education

Degree in Computer Science/Information Systems/Data Science

Tools

Adobe Experience Platform (AEP)

Job description

What You’ll Do

Provide deep experience to build data solutions across multiple Adobe products and cloud platforms aligned with enterprise data strategy. Engage closely with customers and Adobe team to facilitate data discovery by evaluating systems and business processes. Analyze customer sources, data movement, data granularity, relationships, data format, etc. Unify disparate data (e.g., sales, CRM, analytics data, etc.) to meet customers' digital marketing use cases. Lead and develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models for multi-solution delivery. Showcase and follow frameworks for data quality, define standards, master data management, data services, data governance, data modeling, tools, data security, privacy and compliance with industry regulations (PII, PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, etc.). Engage with cross-disciplinary groups and Adobe professionals to identify customer demands. Provide data layout and strategic blueprints, advocating for scalable, secure resolutions. Assume the role of a liaison to promptly tackle technical obstacles. Provide solutions for growing data volumes, tools, and integrations, while aligning to customers' objectives. Deliver Adobe platform data lake and real-time customer profile to get ready for data ingestion and activation. Employ REST APIs, Postman, and basic scripting to automate and streamline the implementation and set up. Develop and construct data ingestion solutions for streaming and batch processing, online and offline data within AEP. Collaborate with data engineers to develop and implement ETL/ELT pipelines for data collection and extraction. Improve data query performance across platforms by tuning models and adhering to guidelines and ensure product guardrails are followed and deployed in solutions Drives end-to-end data migration initiatives, transforming and migrating large-scale datasets while maintaining data quality, integrity, and compliance. Audit existing Adobe solutions to establish current state baseline and identify technical debt, governance gaps, and data quality issues. Assess platform maturity: evaluate taxonomy consistency, content metadata tagging practices and standards compliance, and commerce product data enrichment levels; flag redesign opportunities prior to modernization. Identify platform-specific reconciliation and integration points and document data consistency requirements. Unify disparate data sources (CRM, call centre, marketing, sales, content operations, commerce/order data) to meet customers' digital marketing, content, and commerce use cases within a single AEP foundation. Map legacy platform infrastructure to AEP schemas and CJA data views; determine what migrates directly, what requires transformation, and what should be redesigned for improved governance and cross-domain insights. Design AEP data models (conceptual, logical, physical) across Analytics, Content and Commerce domains—including event schemas, entity relationships, attribute hierarchies, identity resolution, content asset structures, and product data models. Develop relational and dimensional data models for analytics spanning multiple customer datasets (CRM, marketing, offline, point-of-sale, content, commerce) across RDBMS, columnar, data warehouse, and data lake environments. Architect AEP data ingestion pipelines (streaming, batch, online, offline) across Analytics, Content, and Commerce data sources; collaborate with data engineers to build automated ETL/ELT workflows maintaining data freshness and quality. Support end-to-end modernization migrations, preserving metric definitions, historical accuracy, content governance, and commerce data integrity through transition phases. Develop validation and reconciliation documentation for legacy‑vs‑modern platform comparisons in pilot and production

Core Requirements

8+ years of hands‑on data architecture, data modeling, SQL development, and analytics platform experience working with enterprise customers. Expert proficiency in crafting customer‑centric database models, datasets (e.g., CRM, Call Center, Marketing, Offline, Point of Sale, etc.) with relational, hierarchical (e.g., RDBMS, Columnar, Data Warehouse, BI, Document, Semantic layer modeling, Data Lakes, OLTP & OLAP, etc.). Demonstrated experience auditing, assessing, and documenting data components of implementations; ability to translate complex data configurations and data models into clear business requirements and technical documentation. Advanced SQL skills including window functions, complex joins, aggregations, stored procedures, and query optimization for analytics workloads. Hands‑on experience with Adobe Experience Platform (AEP), including data ingestion, schema design, unified profiles, segmentation, real‑time activation workflows, and native AI tools. Knowledge of identity resolution, data privacy frameworks, and consent management in a multi‑domain context. Proficiency in API‑first integration patterns (REST, webhooks, Postman) and basic scripting (Python or Bash) for data pipeline automation and validation. Excellent written and verbal communication and strong organizational skills; proven ability to balance concurrent customer engagements and distill complex architectures and migration strategies for executive and technical audiences.

Nice to Have

• Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in CJA or AEP Data Architect.
• Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) in Real-Time Customer Data Platform or Analytics.
• Hands‑on experience with Adobe Experience Platform for Content or Commerce (Content Hub, Commerce product data, personalization).
• Hands‑on experience with Adobe Analytics API (Report API, Admin API) for automated assessment and documentation.
• Experience with Analytics-to-CJA migration patterns, common reconciliation challenges, and metric mapping best practices.
• Experience with version control (Git) and CI/CD practices for data solution deployment.
• Track record of presenting modernization audits and migration strategies to C‑suite and line‑of‑business stakeholders.

Preferred Background

Preferred Background Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or related technical field; equivalent work experience in a senior data architecture role considered.

The annual salary range for this position is $113,000-$160,000. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k
• Flexible paid time off
• At least 15 paid holidays per year
• Paid sick and safe leave
• Paid parental leave

Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies.

For further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.

Job Details

Location: USA - Remote - Georgia
Brand: Merkle
Time Type: Full time
Contract Type: Permanent

Equal Opportunity

Dentsu is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. We do this without regard to race, color, national origin, sex , sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religious practices and observances, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

Reasonable Accommodation

Dentsu is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to, among others, individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans.

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