Solution Architect Director

Job Summary

• Provides progressive leadership to assigned clients/industries by consulting and leading the overall technical solution for assigned clients/industries.
• Provide technical pre-sales supportfor their assigned areas.
• Qualifies and recommends solutions and strategies. Createsframing forproposals and business strategies. Verifiesend solutions meet technical criteria.
• Directs and reviews technical proposal materials for technical integrity quality risk quantification strategicdirectionand consistency with standards.
• Owns solution cost modeling and optimization.
• Prepares and delivers technical presentations to clients at theappropriate(for audience)technical granularity.
• Developsmaintainsand shares technical best practices.
• Owns transitioning sold opportunities to implementation teams and provides leadership and oversightthroughout.
• Acts as the technical escalation point/support for assigned clients.
• Ensures allsolutions incorporateenterprisetechnical vision and standards.
• Enhances the contribution of others working on assigned client(s) and is known as a domain expert for their industry/client(s)and SME area.
• Stays informed on the latest industry news trends products servicescompetitorsand relevant existing and emerging technologies.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Expectedto consult with clients at a strategic level on solution design and business requirements. Ensures overall solution requirements and design incorporate Acxioms and the clients overall solution vision.

• Responsible for the overall solution integrity of large and complex solutions across multiple clients providing strategic direction to other solution architects on technology and design choices.

• Focuson client value and satisfaction while balancing corporateobjectivesfeasibilityand scalability of solutions.

• Utilize subject matterexpertiseon Acxiom and industry technologiesverticalsand lines of businesstohelp consult on aligning client business needs to products solutions and services offered. Documents and shares best practices and case studies.

• Lead define and adhere toenterprisesolution standards estimates processespoliciesand procedures. Utilizes standard methodologies to promote consistency and drives adherence to standards within designated with other departments methodologies including project management and development methodologies.

• Proactivelyidentifiesareas of process improvement that drive profit enhancement and client value and instills that mindset while contributing through others.

• Consults / advises and educates management affected teams and clients through communications at theappropriate technicalgranularity.

• Proactively developing internal relationships and working with product teams to provide feedback to theappropriate linesof business or product team.

• Keeps informed and evaluates the latest Acxiom and industry news trends products servicescompetitorsand relevant existing and emerging technologies.

• Mentors other less experienced architects on this practice.

• Owns the pre-sales process of scoping and estimation efforts for new projects as assigned.

• Owns ImplementationLeadership including client communication transitioning from presalesto implementation teams and overall success (from a client perspective) of implementation.

KNOWLEDGE / COMPETENCIES:

• Deep hands-on experienceat some point in careerwith modern cloud platforms such as Snowflake Databricks or similar technologies

• Subject Matter Expertof overall business and technical solutions for assigned clients/industries.

• SubjectExpertinIdentity resolution (deterministic probabilistic offline/online stitching)

• Familiarwith AI/ML concepts as applied to dataprocessing

• In-depth knowledge andunderstanding ofenterprise delivery methodology design project managementand change management procedures.

• Can performdesign creationelicitationand planning.

• Exhibits leadership both internally(stakeholders)and externally with clients.

• Exhibits excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Exhibits excellent relationship skills.

• The associate is expected to becomefully functional and self-directedandleadpresales and implementation efforts associated withcomplex solutions.

• Provide technical leadership and oversight to the team including any role(s) required to deliver solution enhancement modificationsissuesmanagement or research for clients.

• Abilityto effectively communicate the business benefits of a technical solutionto non-technical stakeholders.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This position does not have direct reports but may mentor less experienced associates in the role.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum10yearsof combinedexperience in technicalpresales and implementationroles

• Minimum5yearsofexperience with database marketing directmarketingor interactive marketing environments.

• Minimum 10 yearsofexperience working in an externalclient-facingenvironment.

• Recentexperience withone or more of thefollowing:

• Non-Cloud to CloudMigrations

• Cloud Platforms (AWSGCP Azure)

• Snowflake / Databricks

• Clean rooms

• CDP / Customer 360

• Real-time architectures

• AI/ML-enabled analytics

• Not required but nice to haveexperience with automotive data and solutions.

Any reference to years of experience should be disregarded in the UK

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Additional Locations (if applicable):

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