Solution Architect Senior Director

Role Description

The Principal Solution Architect is a role that combines accountability for the success of technical deliverables with executive-level strategy—ensuring solutions are scoped and priced according to expectations, well designed, successfully implemented, and operational in the client environment.

• Provides progressive leadership to assigned clients/industries by consulting and leading the overall technical solution.
• Provides technical pre-sales support for their assigned areas.
• Qualifies and recommends solutions and strategies.
• Creates framing for proposals and business strategies.
• Verifies end solutions meet technical criteria.
• Directs and reviews technical proposal materials for technical integrity, quality, risk quantification, strategic direction, and consistency with standards.
• Owns solution cost modeling and optimization.
• Prepares and delivers technical presentations to clients at the appropriate technical granularity.
• Develops, maintains, and shares technical best practices.
• Owns transitioning sold opportunities to implementation teams and provides leadership and oversight throughout.
• Acts as the technical escalation point/support for assigned clients.
• Ensures all solutions incorporate enterprise technical 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, services, competitors, and relevant existing and emerging technologies.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of combined experience in technical presales and implementation roles.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with database marketing, direct marketing, or interactive marketing environments.
• Minimum 10 years of experience working in an external client-facing environment.
• Recent experience with one or more of the following:
  • Non-Cloud to Cloud Migrations
  • Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Snowflake / Databricks
  • Clean rooms
  • CDP / Customer 360
  • Real-time architectures
  • AI/ML-enabled analytics
• Not required but nice to have experience with automotive data and solutions.

Requirements

• Deep, hands-on experience with modern cloud platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or similar technologies.
• Subject Matter Expert of overall business and technical solutions for assigned clients/industries.
• Subject Expert in Identity resolution (deterministic + probabilistic, offline/online stitching).
• Familiar with AI/ML concepts as applied to data processing.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of enterprise delivery methodology design, project management, and change management procedures.
• Can perform design creation, elicitation, and 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 become fully functional and self-directed and lead presales and implementation efforts associated with complex solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight to the team, including any role(s) required to deliver solution enhancement, modifications, issues management, or research for clients.
• Ability to effectively communicate the business benefits of a technical solution to non-technical stakeholders.

Company Description

Acxiom is an equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veteran status (EOE/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other employment of associates or the awarding of subcontracts because of a person's race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, protected veteran, military status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics or other protected status.

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