Senior AI-Ready Marketing Data Platform Architect

Lumen

Annapolis (MD)

On-site

USD 145,000 - 194,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Lumen seeks a Senior Lead Marketing Data Platform Architect to define and evolve its marketing data platform, partnering with engineering, analytics, Adobe and Salesforce to deliver scalable, AI-ready data products and governance.

This role drives modernization, ensures secure, measurable data operations, and guides stakeholders across marketing technology to enable advanced analytics, personalization, and AI-driven decision making.

Qualifications

8+ years of experience in data engineering, platform architecture, or related disciplines.
Deep hands-on expertise with Databricks, including Delta Lake, Spark, governance, and orchestration.
Strong experience designing modern lakehouse architectures and enterprise-scale data platforms.
Advanced data modeling, SQL, and data architecture expertise.
Experience designing AI-driven data solutions, automation, testing, and deployment practices.
Understanding of metadata management, lineage, observability, data governance, and platform operations.
Knowledge of Adobe and Salesforce ecosystems and related marketing tech.

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 platform for marketing data and intelligence.
Define scalable data architectures supporting analytics, reporting, personalization, activation, and AI-driven use cases.
Establish platform standards for data modeling, ingestion, orchestration, observability, security, and promotions.
Design and govern reusable data products enabling trusted access to marketing data.
Drive modernization initiatives to improve scalability and reduce technical debt.
Define governance standards for metadata management, lineage, data quality, and lifecycle management.
Design for AI-native and agentic operations, including automated quality controls and deployment.
Partner with Adobe, Salesforce, analytics, engineering, and business teams for seamless integration.
Evaluate emerging technologies and architectural patterns to improve performance and value.
Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to engineers and cross-functional stakeholders.
Lead architecture reviews, establish design standards, and document decisions for long-term sustainability.