Sr. Director, Technology - Solutions Architect

Sr. Director, Technology – Solutions Architect

This role is to be based near one of our offices in New York, Austin, Los Angeles, or Oakland.

About us 

We drive intelligent growth for ambitious businesses and leading brands. 

Customer understanding is more potent and drives greater value when insights go to work directly within marketing and experience priorities. To give our clients that advantage, we put an insights-driven operating system at the core of our design, go-to-market and digital experience solutions.  

Material clients make smarter growth choices because they can see clearly how and when to take the shots that count. Together, we connect consumer intelligence with customer demand generation to build lasting, profitable relationships.

About the Sr. Director, Technology – Solutions Architect

The role will be part of a collaborative team which co-creates and designs innovative solutions for our current and prospective clients. The MSA will play a critical role in defining digital experience platform architecture, technology strategy, software and technical architecture, design and implementation of these client’s initiatives.  Solutions will encompass a broad range of technologies and platforms within the Digital Experience Platforms landscape, especially with CMS, CEP, Marketing Automation, CDP, and analytics-heavy solutions.

You Are:

• Client-Facing, often sitting face to face with prospective customers to shape technical solutions.

• A Mentor, you lead by example and challenge others to push their boundaries.

• A Self-Starter, you’re an expert in your field but still eager to improve your skillset in the ever-evolving landscape of Omnichannel solutions.

• Collaborative, you enjoy working with several cross functional teams on a daily basis.

• An effective communicator, you have the charisma to command attention, strategize and problem-solve on your feet when needed with internal and external team members.  You have a mastery of written language, able to deliver compelling technical proposals to new and existing clients.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Here’s what you’ll be doing day to day…

• Strategic planning: Developing phased roadmaps that align with client strategy, industry standards, and technical requirements.

• Solution design: Architecting cross-solution strategies that integrate technologies to meet client goals and enhance digital marketing performance.

• Client advisory: Serving as a technical and strategic advisor, providing guidance on digital marketing strategies and helping clients make informed decisions.

• Pre-Sales Consulting: Partnering with our Sales team to help grow the organization.

• Technical leadership: Leading complex, large-scale solution implementations and breaking down complex strategies into actionable requirements.

• Cross-functional collaboration: Working with technical leads, product teams, and partners to ensure successful deployment and alignment with customer needs.

• Knowledge sharing: Contributing to the consulting practice by developing and sharing best practices, methodologies, and templates. 

• Communicate: Articulate the transition from current to future state in consideration of the future needs of the business, security policies and requirements. Break down complex business and technical strategies and roadmaps into consumable requirements for teams to execute against.

• Estimation: Participate in discovery of technical project requirements, scope and provide recommendations for phased program delivery. Create or contribute to project delivery estimations based on your recommendations and provide realistic level of effort estimations.

Your Experience & Intangible Traits:

The ideal candidate for the Solutions Architect position will possess the following competencies:

• 15+ years of aggregate experience in digital technologies, including architecting and developing large-scale web applications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience implementing Acquia/Drupal, Sitecore, Optimizely, Adobe, or similar Digital Experience Platforms or Marketing Automation

• 5+ years of experience in client-facing technology consulting and pre-sales roles

• Ability to methodically estimate technology execution scope of work in terms of budget and resources

• Knowledge of current digital marketing trends and best practices on topics such as personalization, cross channel marketing, mobile, data driven optimization of experiences

• Ability to define conceptual technology solution and articulate the value of technology to drive creative marketing platforms and present technology solutions to both technical and non-technical clients

• Ability to translate client goals into achievable technical specifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, management information systems, mathematics or equivalent

Experience with any of the following would be relevant to the role and considered a plus:

• Experience developing modern applications using cloud-native abilities of AWS or Azure

• Hands-on experience implementing complex customer journeys, personalization, and targeted customer offerings through use of CDPs, data lakes and analytics solutions, which extend or integrate with digital experience platforms.

• Experience designing and/or implementing Commercetools, Magento, Shopify or similar E-Commerce platforms.

• Experience with any of the following: Treasure Data, mParticle, Braze, VWO, Adobe Target, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Experience Platform, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, AEP, AJO

• Experience with Generative AI supported solutions, RAG, and cloud-native Gen AI tools such as AWS Bedrock or Azure AI services is a plus.

The statements contained in this job description reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions of this job, the level of knowledge and skill typically required and the scope of responsibility.  It should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements.  Individuals may perform other duties as assigned, including work in other functional areas to cover absences, to equalize peak work periods, or to otherwise balance organizational workload.

Why work for Material?

• Material is a global company and we work with best-of-class brands worldwide.  We also create and launch new brands and products, putting innovation and value creation at the center of our practice. Our clients are in the top of their class, across industry sectors from technology to retail, transportation, finance and healthcare. 

• Material employees join a peer group of exceptionally talented colleagues across the company, the country, and even the world. We develop capabilities, craft and leading-edge market offerings across seven global practices including strategy and insights, design, data & analytics, technology and tracking. Our engagement management team makes it all hum for clients.  

• A community focused on learning and making an impact. Material is an outcomes focused company. We create experiences that matter, create new value and make a difference in our clients’ lives and their customers’ lives.

Pay Range: $150,000.00 – 188,000.00

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Material. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself. 

Equal Employment Opportunity              

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law.

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