Freelance Solutions Architect Braze & Iterable Experience
Job Summary
THE ROLE
As a Freelance Solutions Architect (MarTech) youll play a critical role in helping Apply clients design and deliver scalable marketing technology solutions that unlock better customer experiences and measurable growth. Reporting into the Marketing Services team you will lead the technical architecture for CRM CDP and marketing automation implementations translating business goals into clear technical plans and requirements. You will help clients modernize their MarTech stack improve data quality and activation and enable teams to run more personalized omnichannel customer journeys.Solution Architecture & Discovery
Lead discovery workshops to understand client objectives existing systems data flows and constraints.
Define target-state architecture for CRM CDP and marketing automation including integration patterns governance and scalability considerations.
Translate business problems into technical solution options with clear trade-offs effort estimates and risks.
Implementation Leadership & Delivery
Guide implementations end-to-end from documentation and planning through detailed requirements and support for build.
Produce high-quality technical artifacts including architecture diagrams data flow maps event and identity models and implementation roadmaps.
Write clear technical requirements for engineers partnering with technical project management to scope sequence and deliver work.
Partner with client stakeholders to drive decisions and keep delivery aligned to outcomes timelines and dependencies.
MarTech Platforms Integrations and Data
Architect and support integrations across the MarTech stack including CDPs marketing automation platforms analytics attribution and enrichment tools.
Design data schemas and event tracking plans that support lifecycle use cases and analytics needs.
Support ETL and reverse ETL patterns to activate data into downstream destinations.
Ensure solutions account for omnichannel transactional and marketing messaging customer journeys user states and event-driven automation.
- Hands-on experience with Braze and Iterable.
5 years of software development experience.
5 years of experience integrating third-party tools including involvement in planning and developing ETL solutions.
2 years of hands-on experience with a CDP such as Mixpanel Segment mParticle Tealium Treasure Data or similar.
2 years of experience working directly with clients or key stakeholders.
Demonstrated experience designing and architecting a CDP and/or marketing automation integration and ability to walk through the full implementation lifecycle.
Experience working with APIs and at least one of the following: Mobile SDKs HTML CSS JavaScript.
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS (EC2 S3 Lambda Redshift) GCP Heroku or iPaaS tools.
Experience defining cross-platform technical requirements across the MarTech stack.
Platform experience implementing CDPs such as Segment RudderStack mParticle Tealium or similar.
Experience configuring lifecycle journeys and campaigns in tools like Braze Iterable Klaviyo or similar.
Familiarity with analytics enrichment and attribution tools and approaches.
Understanding of marketing attribution including auditing integrations and attribution data.
Proficiency with JSON and SQL including data modeling best practices.
Experience with reverse ETL tools such as Hightouch or Census.
Experience with scripting languages and serverless patterns including lambda functions.
Ability to clearly present technical concepts and recommendations to non-technical stakeholders.
Platform experience with Shopify or Magento.
Required Experience:
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