Lead Marketing Data Platform Architect — AI‑Native Data

Lumen Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 132,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen Technologies seeks a Senior Lead Marketing Data Platform Architect to define and evolve the marketing data platform, partnering with engineering, Adobe, Salesforce, and business teams to ensure scalable, secure, and AI-ready data solutions.

The role focuses on establishing long-term platform vision, governance standards, and modernization initiatives to support analytics, personalization, activation, and AI-driven decision making across marketing use cases.

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.

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

Databricks

Delta Lake

Spark

Lakehouse design

Data modeling

SQL

Data governance

Adobe Platform

Salesforce

Stakeholder mgmt

Job description

Lumen Technologies seeks a Senior Lead Marketing Data Platform Architect to define and evolve the marketing data platform, partnering with engineering, Adobe, Salesforce, and business teams to ensure scalable, secure, and AI-ready data solutions.

The role focuses on establishing long-term platform vision, governance standards, and modernization initiatives to support analytics, personalization, activation, and AI-driven decision making across marketing use cases.