Lead Engineer

Job title: Lead Engineer Future of Email POD (MarTech Engineering & Orchestration)

Location: San Francisco CA

Hybrid

Role Overview:
The Lead Engineer in the FOE POD is a senior technical leader responsible for architecting building and scaling next generation marketing technology solutions. This role blends deep MarTech orchestration expertise with modern big data engineering cloud-native design and emerging AI driven development patterns. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technologist who can design resilient systems guide engineering teams and partner with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high impact customer engagement capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:
Lead end to end MarTech engineering initiatives across orchestration data processing and activation pipelines.
Architect scalable event driven systems that power real time marketing experiences and automated customer journeys.
Design and implement orchestration workflows using Adobe Campaign or equivalent enterprise grade tools.
Develop high performance big data applications using Scala Databricks Spark SQL Spark Streaming and Python.
Build and optimize cloud native data pipelines on Azure including ADF based ingestion transformation and orchestration.
Apply modern design patterns to ensure reliability maintainability and scalability across distributed systems.
Drive AI assisted engineering practices including Vibe Coding and other generative AI development accelerators.
Collaborate with product marketing and data teams to translate business needs into robust technical solutions.
Mentor engineers and elevate engineering standards code quality and operational excellence within the POD.

Required Skills & Experience:
Deep expertise in MarTech platforms with hands on experience in Adobe Campaign or similar orchestration tools.
Strong proficiency in big data technologies: Scala Databricks Spark SQL Spark Streaming Python.
Cloud engineering experience with Azure services including Azure Data Factory.
Advanced system design capabilities including event driven architectures and distributed design patterns.
Experience with AI augmented development such as Vibe Coding or comparable frameworks.
Proven ability to lead engineering teams in a fast paced cross functional environment.
Strong communication and stakeholder alignment skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into business impact.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in large scale marketing ecosystems (ESP CDP personalization engines real time decisioning).
Background in high volume data processing supporting customer engagement or growth marketing.
Familiarity with DevOps practices including CI/CD observability and automated testing.
Exposure to modern AI/ML pipelines for personalization segmentation or content automation.