AJO Architect

79522
Chicago, Illinois
Contract
Yesterday

Looking for a Platform Architect to lead high-priority platform implementation projects and ongoing platform support across marketing automation, journey orchestration, CDP, loyalty and offer management platforms. This position sits within our Technology team, but will regularly interface with a large, cross-functional team of developers, solution architects, marketing strategists and digital marketing specialists to help bring digital customer experiences to life. As such, the ideal candidate will be dynamic and flexible with a strong affinity toward data and process.

This position necessitates knowledge of varying industry trends, marketing automation enablement, campaign best practices, data management best practices and associated digital marketing technologies, so the ideal candidate should possess a desire to continually learn, improve and apply subject matter expertise to individual client needs. If you are energized by representing an award-winning, stable and growing company in a fast-moving digital transformation space, we’d like to meet you.

Role and Responsibilities

    • Lead discovery efforts to gather necessary information from clients and internal team members to appropriately understand business needs and solution requirements for digital marketing efforts
    • Develop deep knowledge of each client’s business and available data to ensure platform solutioning is on par with client’s marketing objectives
    • Translate business needs into detailed technical requirements for platform configuration, data schemas and system integrations to deliver against business needs
    • Lead platform configuration and development of digital marketing campaigns across channels (email, SMS, push, in-app, etc)
    • Oversee development, testing and deployment of platform work completed by developers
    • Provide support to development teams working on platform integrations
    • Create Architecture and Technical specifications documents 
    • Serve as day-to-day technical platform SME to internal and client teams
    • Work closely with project management team to manage workflow and deadlines across multiple, simultaneous platform-related projects and change controls
    • Provide support to senior team members throughout project estimation and Marketing Technology platform discovery / roadmapping engagements, as needed
    • Provide support to internal execution services team for ongoing platform and schema optimizations, as needed
    • Direct technical implementation of features, as needed, as a minor percentage of overall responsibility

Preferred Qualifications

    • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related business or technology field, or equivalent work experience required
    • Minimum of 2 years working with Adobe Journey Optimizer and/or Journey Orchestration, with a minimum of 1 year in Journey Optimizer, with demonstrated experience leading 3+ platform implementation projects 
    • Familiarity with setup/application of common AJO tasks: Channel Surfaces, Data Sources, Events, Actions, Audience Definition, Decision Management, etc.
    • Familiarity with non-native activation, i.e., journey orchestration in AJO with customer interaction via external system
    • Adobe Journey Optimizer certification preferred
    • Experienced data modeler
    • Proficiency with JSON and XML
    • Experience or familiarity with HTML, MJML, CSS and responsive email coding a plus
    • Agency experience preferred, with 2+ years experience in a client-facing role and knowledge of overall agency structures and agile project management methodologies
    • Solid understanding of digital marketing execution processes, audience segmentation methods, industry best practices, communication legal compliance, and downstream campaign analysis
    • Excellent oral and written communication skills
    • Comfortable working with all levels of an organization and capable of communicating as effectively with technical staff as with business and management
    • Familiarity with a variety of marketing automation platforms and marketing cloud solutions a plus (Adobe Campaign, Adobe Journey Optimizer, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Braze, Marketo or similar)

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is between $65.00 and $80.00

Our benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision and 401k.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions would like to thank you for the interest you have demonstrated in this opportunity. However, only candidates with the required skills will be contacted.

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Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Information Technology and Engineering staffing and consulting services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. Rather than continually trying to sell to new clients and companies and simply filling databases with candidates, we focus on developing stronger relationships and deeper knowledge of our existing clients’ challenges and opportunities.  We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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