Architect - Enterprise Apps

Job Title: Architect - Enterprise Apps
Location: 2 Folsom, San Francisco CA
Work Set-up: 100% On-site
Duration: 1-year contract (with possible extension or conversion)
Pay Rate: $109.94/hr. on W2
Focus: MarTech Modernization, Composable Commerce, & AI Transformation
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision.

The Mission

We are seeking a visionary Principal Enterprise Architect to serve as the technical North Star for our global MarTech ecosystem. As a key member of the CTO's Enterprise Architecture team, you will bridge the gap between ambitious marketing strategies and high-performance engineering. You will lead the shift from legacy suites to a composable, API-first architecture that powers personalized, real-time customer journeys across our Connected Commerce landscape.

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Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Blueprinting: Architect the North Star vision for a composable MarTech stack, prioritizing modularity across CDP, CRM, Loyalty, and Campaign Orchestration.
• AI & Intelligence Integration: Design the architecture for AI-driven marketing, including the integration of LLMs for content automation, Agentic AI for customer engagement, and predictive modeling for next-best-action engines.
• Ecosystem Rationalization: Audit the current landscape to identify technical debt and redundancies; lead the migration strategy from monolithic platforms to "best-of-breed" modular solutions.
• Data & Identity Sovereignty: Define the flow of first-party data and identity resolution strategies to ensure a unified customer view across Paid Media, Clean Rooms, and owned channels.
• Governance & Influence: Lead Architecture Review Boards (ARB) for marketing investments, ensuring all new tools align with MACH (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless) principles.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Act as the primary technical translator between the CMO's vision and the CTO's engineering execution.

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Required Qualifications

• 10+ Years of Mastery: Proven track record in Enterprise Architecture with a specialized focus on Digital Marketing and High-Scale Retail/DTC.
• The "Stack" Expert:
  • Data: Deep experience with CDPs (e.g., Tealium, mParticle, Adobe AEP) and Identity resolution.
  • Orchestration: Hands-on architecture with Braze, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, or Adobe Journey Optimizer.
  • Media: Expertise in Data Clean Rooms (Snowflake, Habu) and the programmatic DSP/SSP pipeline.
• Technical Depth: Proficient in event-driven architectures (Kafka/Pub-Sub), GraphQL, and cloud-native patterns (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• AI Fluent: Experience deploying ML-based personalization and a working understanding of integrating Generative AI into content supply chains.

Preferred Qualifications

• MACH Advocate: Active experience implementing Composable Commerce or MACH-certified architectures.
• Measurement Savvy: Understanding of the technical telemetry required for MMM (Marketing Mix Modeling) and MTA (Multi-Touch Attribution).
• Agency or Consulting Background: Experience navigating complex, multi-stakeholder environments at an accelerated pace.

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Core Competencies

• Day 1 Velocity: Ability to parse complex environments quickly and provide immediate architectural guidance.
• Executive Presence: Can distill $10M+ platform decisions into clear, value-based narratives for C-suite stakeholders.
• Collaborative Friction-Reducer: Works effectively within established governance while tactfully pushing for modernization.

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Why this role?
You aren't just "maintaining" a stack; you are re-engineering how a global brand interacts with millions of customers. This is a high-visibility role within the CTO organization, offering the autonomy to shape the future of Connected Commerce.