Lead Enterprise Architect
AI summary of the role
This is a senior enterprise architecture leadership role within Merkle's Digital Product Engineering practice, focused on a top-tier global communications client.
What you’ll do
- Own end-to-end technical architecture across the engagement, ensuring alignment to the approved roadmap and enterprise standards.
- Design and govern integrated, enterprise-class solutions anchored in the Adobe ecosystem (AEM, AEP, Target, Analytics, Workfront) while orchestrating adjacent platforms (Salesforce, middleware, data infrastructure).
- Lead the initial phase uplifting the client's critical digital properties using Adobe Experience Manager, ensuring a composable architecture for future modernization.
- Design scalable integration patterns across platforms, APIs, data layers, and middleware to ensure seamless data flow and operational resilience.
What you’ll bring
- 15+ years of hands-on enterprise architecture and solution delivery experience, with significant portion in large-scale SI or digital product engineering environments.
- Broad multi-platform fluency: working delivery experience with Adobe ecosystem, Salesforce, middleware/integration platforms, cloud infrastructure, and data platforms.
- Proven track record of delivering large, complex, multi-year, global SI or product engineering engagements ($10M+ scope) from architecture through go-live.
- Demonstrated experience designing and governing enterprise integration architectures (APIs, event-driven patterns, ETL/ELT pipelines, middleware orchestration).
Technologies
Adobe Experience Manager · Adobe AEP · Adobe Target · Adobe Analytics · Adobe Workfront · Salesforce Marketing Cloud · Salesforce Data Cloud · Salesforce Service Cloud · MuleSoft · Informatica · AWS · Azure
About Dentsu
Japanese-rooted global advertising and marketing network delivering media, creative, and CXM via brands like Carat, Dentsu Creative, iProspect, and Merkle for the world's top advertisers.
Public · 5000+ people
Source and classification
Production engineering · Evidence for this classification:
Job Description: The Enterprise Architecture Lead is a senior technical leader within Merkle’s Digital Product Engineering (DPE) practice, part of the broader Digital Experience (DX) organization. DPE serves as Merkle’s rapid innovation engine and cross-capability orchestrator, delivering bespoke product development, composable modernization, and AI-powered solutions for Fortune 100 clients. This role combines deep enterprise architecture expertise with a product engineering mindset. The candidate must be equally comfortable governing complex, multi-platform delivery programs and shaping what gets built and why, leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams through the practical development and delivery of production-grade solutions. The Enterprise Architecture Lead operates in close partnership with DPE’s Technology Lead, who owns the agentic AI and emerging technology workstream onHow jobs are selected
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