Senior Marketing Data Platform Architect (AI-Native)

Lumen; Santa Fe (NM); On-site; USD 159,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Senior Lead Marketing Data Platform Architect to define, govern, and evolve the marketing data platform. You will lead Databricks-based design, governance, and modernization efforts enabling AI-ready data structures and scalable analytics across marketing functions.

Collaborating with Adobe, Salesforce, analytics, and business stakeholders, you will establish standards for data modeling, security, and deployment while guiding intelligent automation and operator-ready

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, platform architecture, or related disciplines.
• Deep hands-on Databricks expertise including Delta Lake and Spark.
• Experience designing lakehouse architectures and enterprise-scale data platforms.
• Advanced data modeling, SQL, and data architecture skills.
• Experience designing AI-driven or AI-native data solutions and automation.
• Strong metadata management, lineage, and data governance knowledge.
• Understanding of Adobe and Salesforce ecosystems (Web SDK/Launch/Customer Journey Analytics).
• Experience with data platforms, DataOps, and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Own the architectural vision and governance of the marketing data platform.
• Lead design and operations for Databricks as the platform for marketing data and intelligence.
• Define scalable data architectures for analytics, personalization, and AI-driven use cases.
• Set standards for data modeling, ingestion, observability, security, and deployment.
• Govern reusable data products ensuring secure, trusted access organization-wide.
• Drive modernization to improve scalability and reduce technical debt.
• Partner with Adobe, Salesforce, analytics, and engineering teams for seamless integration.
• Provide technical leadership and document architectural decisions.

Skills

Databricks

Delta Lake

Spark

Data modeling

SQL

AI-driven data solutions

Governance

Platform architecture

Tools

Databricks

Adobe Experience Platform

Salesforce

Microsoft Azure

Marketo/Demandbase/ZoomInfo

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Senior Lead Marketing Data Platform Architect to define, govern, and evolve the marketing data platform. You will lead Databricks-based design, governance, and modernization efforts enabling AI-ready data structures and scalable analytics across marketing functions.

Collaborating with Adobe, Salesforce, analytics, and business stakeholders, you will establish standards for data modeling, security, and deployment while guiding intelligent automation and operator-ready