RTCDP & AEP Architect — Enterprise Data & Privacy

Bounteous; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Bounteous, a global AI services firm, seeks a CDP Architect specialized in RTCDP to design, implement, and maintain scalable, privacy-compliant customer data architectures. Strong RTCDP and AEP expertise with end-to-end implementations and governance are required.

The role collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with client needs and data models. The ideal candidate brings deep RTCDP/AEP experience, successful full-cycle deployments, and a consultative mindset for

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years in marketing technology, MarTech, or data engineering.
• Multiple end-to-end RTCDP implementations completed, with architecture, ingestion, identity design, and activation.
• 3+ years RTCDP and AEP experience including XDM schema design, profile enablement, ingestion, and identity resolution.
• Experience with APIs, streaming ingestion, and ETL/ELT pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary platform expert for Adobe RTCDP, advising on architecture, governance, and best practices.
• Architect data models, schemas, datasets, and mappings aligned with client data structures and enterprise-scale AEP and CDP requirements.
• Design and document identity strategies including identity namespaces, stitching rules, and profile merging logic.
• Manage user roles and permissions in AEP to ensure proper access controls.
• Oversee system health and lead engineers through regular maintenance protocols to ensure compliance with organizational policies.
• Architect for Federated Audience Composition (FAC) and federated data access patterns to enable cross-system audience building and data usage, when required.
• Plan and oversee data ingestion pipelines, including batch, streaming, SDK and API, ensuring integrity, completeness, and privacy compliance.
• Ensure datasets are properly enabled for Profile with consent and data quality controls built into the ingestion strategy and data structures.
• Partner with Data Engineers to implement XDM schemas, plan data ingestion and dataset enablement, transformations, event pipelines, and monitoring.
• Define and optimize segmentation and activation strategies across AEP destinations and downstream systems.
• Align RTCDP architecture with enterprise data governance, privacy policies, and global data models.
• Lead discovery sessions to define use cases, identify data requirements, and uncover technical constraints.
• Create and present solution architecture documentation, including dataflow diagrams, identity maps, and destination activation models.
• Advise clients on privacy, consent, identity management, and governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with global policies.
• Provide expert guidance on CDP operational models, adoption patterns, and maturity roadmaps.
• Guide Data Engineers, Analysts, and partner teams throughout build, QA, and deployment cycles.
• Validate data models, ingestion mappings, and identity stitching for accuracy and scalability.
• Support activation teams through segmentation enablement and data readiness checks.
• Contribute to Bounteous CDP Centers of Excellence, frameworks, accelerators, and reusable delivery assets.

Skills

Adobe RTCDP

AEP

XDM schema

Identity design

Federated data

Data governance

Ingestion pipelines

Privacy compliance

ETL/ELT

Cloud platforms

Data modeling

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/DS/IS

Tools

Adobe Launch

CJA

Journey Optimizer

Adobe Analytics

Job description

Bounteous, a global AI services firm, seeks a CDP Architect specialized in RTCDP to design, implement, and maintain scalable, privacy-compliant customer data architectures. Strong RTCDP and AEP expertise with end-to-end implementations and governance are required.

The role collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with client needs and data models. The ideal candidate brings deep RTCDP/AEP experience, successful full-cycle deployments, and a consultative mindset for