Lead AI-Driven Marketing Data Platform Architect

Lumen; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 139,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life benefits

Voluntary lifestyle perks

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Lumen is the trusted network for AI-powered workloads, delivering secure, high-performance connectivity for enterprises and governments. The Senior Lead Marketing Data Platform Architect will define the marketing data platform’s long-term strategy and governance, partnering with Adobe, Salesforce, and engineering to enable AI-driven insights.

You will lead architectural standards, data modeling, and scalable data products, driving modernization and agentic operations across the marketing tech

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in data engineering, platform architecture, data solutions architecture, or related disciplines.
• Deep hands-on expertise with Databricks, including Delta Lake, Spark, data engineering, governance, orchestration, and platform architecture.
• Strong experience designing and implementing modern lakehouse architectures and enterprise-scale data platforms.
• Advanced data modeling, SQL, and data architecture expertise.
• Experience designing AI-driven or AI-native data solutions and implementing automation, testing, quality controls, and deployment practices.
• Strong understanding of metadata management, lineage, observability, data governance, and platform operations.
• Advanced understanding of Adobe’s digital ecosystem, including Web SDK, Launch/Tags, Customer Journey Analytics, and Adobe Experience Platform.
• Advanced understanding of Salesforce architecture, standard and custom object models, and customer data ecosystems.
• Demonstrated success translating business requirements into scalable, secure, governed technology solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence technical and business audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own the architectural vision, governance, performance, and long-term evolution of Lumen’s marketing data platform.
• Lead the 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

Data engineering

Platform architecture

Databricks

Delta Lake

SQL

AI data solutions

Data governance

Adobe ecosystem

Salesforce

Data modeling

Tools

Azure

CI/CD

DataOps

Marketo

Demandbase

ZoomInfo

Dun & Bradstreet

Quantum Metric

Azure Monitor

Job description

Lumen is the trusted network for AI-powered workloads, delivering secure, high-performance connectivity for enterprises and governments. The Senior Lead Marketing Data Platform Architect will define the marketing data platform’s long-term strategy and governance, partnering with Adobe, Salesforce, and engineering to enable AI-driven insights.

You will lead architectural standards, data modeling, and scalable data products, driving modernization and agentic operations across the marketing tech