Senior Solution Architect

Senior Solution Architect

This role is to be based near one of our offices in Los Angeles, New York, Austin, Chicago or Oakland.

About us: 

We turn customer challenges into growth opportunities.   

Material is a global strategy partner to the world’s most recognizable brands and innovative companies. Our people around the globe thrive by helping organizations design and deliver rewarding customer experiences.  

We use deep human insights, design innovation and data to create experiences powered by modern technology. Our approaches speed up engagement and growth for the companies we work with and transform relationships between businesses and the people they serve.  

About the Sr. Solution Architect  

The Senior Solution Architect is part of a collaborative team which co-creates and designs innovative solutions for our current and prospective clients. The Senior Solution Architect will play a critical role in defining digital experience platform architecture, technology strategy, software and technical architecture, design and implementation of these client’s initiatives.  Solutions will encompass a broad range of technologies and platforms within the Digital Experience Platforms landscape, especially with CMS, CRM, CDP, and analytics-heavy solutions. We have emphasis on Drupal, Acquia Cloud, Salesforce, and composable DXP platform technologies. This role reports to the Vice President of Technology in Solution Consulting.

Core Responsibilities:

The ideal candidate is a seasoned strategist, storyteller, campaign planner, and social media enthusiast who thrives on understanding and connecting brands to their customers through both organic and paid social channels. This is a hands-on role, deeply involved in the work of assigned accounts. Key responsibilities include:

• Technical Solution Strategy: Discuss technical solutions with current clients, prospective clients and the internal team and provide innovative new ideas to create a functional and attractive digital environment. Contribute to our client’s digital transformation strategies based on industry best practices.  Participate as a subject matter expert in business development activities including but not limited to proposal writing and pitching in-person.

• Cross Functional Collaboration: You will be closely engaged with client partners, strategists, and delivery engagement leaders to shape solutions towards clients explicit and latent needs. You will assess and recommend experience platform-oriented solutions, engineering solutions, and closely collaborate with a global distributed delivery team to convert client visions to reality.

• Architecting: Construct a technical architecture of multiple solutions fitting client’s needs. Be the project lead for medium and large-scale projects, select and review technology frameworks and architecture used on projects. Identify, assess and solve complex business problems through in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

• Communicate: Articulate the transition from current to future state in consideration of the future needs of the business, security policies and requirements. Break down complex business and technical strategies and roadmaps into consumable requirements for teams to execute against.

• Conceptualize: share knowledge and thought leadership to the rest of the organization, including recommendations on technical direction as well as team professional development. Research and present new technology trends

• Estimation: participate in discovery of technical project requirements, scope and provide recommendations for phased program delivery. Create or contribute to project delivery estimations based on your recommendations and provide realistic level of effort estimations.

About You:

• Client-Facing, often sitting face to face with prospective customers to shape technical solutions.

• A Mentor, you lead by example and challenge others to push their boundaries.

• A Self-Starter, you’re an expert in your field but still eager to improve your skillset in the ever-evolving landscape of Omnichannel solutions.

• Collaborative, you enjoy working with several cross functional teams on a daily basis.

• An effective communicator, you have the charisma to command attention, strategize and problem-solve on your feet when needed with internal and external team members.  You have a mastery of written language, able to deliver compelling technical proposals to new and existing clients.

The ideal candidate for the Solutions Architect position will possess the following competencies:

• 12-16 years of aggregate experience in digital technologies, including architecting and developing large-scale web applications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience implementing Acquia/Drupal, Sitecore, Optimizely, Adobe Experience Manager, or similar Web Content Management System

• 5+ years of experience in client-facing technology consulting roles

• Ability to methodically estimate technology execution scope of work in terms of budget and resources

• Knowledge of current digital marketing trends and best practices on topics such as personalization, cross channel marketing, mobile, data driven optimization of experiences

• Ability to define conceptual technology solution and articulate the value of technology to drive creative marketing platforms and present technology solutions to both technical and non-technical clients

• Ability to translate client goals into achievable technical specifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, management information systems, mathematics or equivalent

Experience with any of the following would be relevant to the role and considered a plus:

• Experience developing modern applications using cloud-native abilities of AWS or Azure

• Hands-on experience implementing complex customer journeys, personalization, and targeted customer offerings through use of CDPs, data lakes and analytics solutions, which extend or integrate with digital experience platforms.

• Experience designing and/or implementing commercetools, Magento, Shopify or similar E-Commerce platforms.

• Experience with any of the following: Drupal 8+, Treasure Data, mParticle, Braze, VWO, Adobe Target, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Experience Platform, Salesforce Sales/Service/Marketing Cloud

• Experience with Generative AI supported solutions, RAG, and cloud-native Gen AI tools such as AWS Bedrock or Azure AI services is a plus.

Why work for Material? 

In addition to fulfilling, high-impact work, company culture and benefits are integral to determining if a job is a right fit for you. Here’s a bit about who we are and highlights around what we offer. 

Who we are & what we care about:

• Material is a global company and we work with best-of-class brands worldwide.  We also create and launch new brands and products, putting innovation and value creation at the center of our practice. Our clients are in the top of their class, across industry sectors from technology to retail, transportation, finance and healthcare. 

• Material employees join a peer group of exceptionally talented colleagues across the company, the country, and even the world. We develop capabilities, craft and leading-edge market offerings across seven global practices including strategy and insights, design, data & analytics, technology and tracking. Our engagement management team makes it all hum for clients.  

• We prize inclusion and interconnectedness. We amplify our impact through the people, perspectives, and expertise we engage in our work. Our commitment to deep human understanding combined with a science & systems approach uniquely equips us to bring a rich frame of reference to our work. 

• A community focused on learning and making an impact. Material is an outcomes focused company. We create experiences that matter, create new value and make a difference in people's lives.  

Pay Range: $131,700.00 - $188,100.00

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Material. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself. 

Equal Employment Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law.

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