Senior Solutions Architect - Enterprise Platforms

dentsu; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, and dental insurance

401k

Flexible paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

Merkle is seeking an accomplished Solution Architect to own the end-to-end technical vision and delivery quality for enterprise-grade digital platforms. This role sits over the top of all technology on an engagement, defining a unified architecture across every domain while serving as the primary client-facing technical leader on the engagements you lead.

You operate with full project autonomy and are accountable for end-to-end technical excellence, supported by domain architects whom you

Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering and solution architecture experience, typically 10+ years.
• Proven experience designing architecture across multiple applications for high performance.
• Proven experience with headless and composable architecture.
• Ability to lead and mentor domain architects and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own overall project technical quality and delivery across all technology domains, with end-to-end accountability.
• Define the unified technical vision across the engagement, directing domain architects to ensure alignment.
• Lead architecture solution design across applications to ensure performance, scalability, and standards.
• Provide architectural governance and maintain documentation across all domains.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Headless architecture

API design

Cloud deployment

Cross-domain governance

Client communication

Tools

Contentful

Sitecore

Sanity

Optimizely

AWS

Vercel

Job description

Merkle is seeking an accomplished Solution Architect to own the end-to-end technical vision and delivery quality for enterprise-grade digital platforms. This role sits over the top of all technology on an engagement, defining a unified architecture across every domain while serving as the primary client-facing technical leader on the engagements you lead.

You operate with full project autonomy and are accountable for end-to-end technical excellence, supported by domain architects whom you