Technical Solution Architect, Digital Marketing & Communications

Empower • $114K — $165K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in enterprise digital technology solutions design and delivery.
  • 3+ years of leading solution architecture or equivalent decision-making experience.
  • Production experience with AWS, focusing on practical cloud architecture applications.
  • Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, data architecture, and APIs.
  • Experience in defining meaningful non-functional requirements beyond generic checklists.
  • Ability to evaluate solution approaches and articulate decision trade-offs clearly.
  • Skills in creating architecture artifacts and communicating complex ideas to various audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Translate business objectives into clear capability impacts and architecture roadmaps.
  • Design comprehensive solutions for various digital platforms including websites and mobile applications.
  • Establish clear boundaries for domains, data, and APIs assuring customer privacy and consent.
  • Maintain architecture artifacts that encapsulate various design aspects and flows.
  • Define measurable non-functional requirements based on business criticality.
  • Lead design discussions, address architecture questions, and guide engineering decisions.
  • Evaluate various platforms and contribute to architecture best practices within the community.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision and life insurance coverage.
  • Generous retirement savings plan with company matching contributions and financial advisory services.
  • Tuition reimbursement of up to $5,250 per year for continuing education.
  • A business-casual work environment with flexible dress codes.
  • Generous paid time off policy including holidays and floating holidays.
  • Paid volunteer time to support personal community engagement aspirations.
  • Inclusive Business Resource Groups to foster employee collaboration and inclusion.
Full Job Description
The Technical Solution Architect, Digital Marketing & Communications will translate business outcomes, enterprise architecture direction, and engineering realities into coherent, executable solution architectures. This role partners with business, product, engineering, data, security, platform, operations, and enterprise/domain architecture teams to move initiatives from ambiguous business objectives through target-state definition, solution design, delivery, production readiness, and post-production learning. The Technical Solution Architect will own solution architecture for scalable, secure, resilient, and measurable customer engagement capabilities that attract, inform, engage, and serve customers. What you will do: • Translate business outcomes and constraints into capability impacts, current-state assessments, target-state architectures, transition roadmaps, and practical delivery increments. • Design end-to-end solutions across websites and mobile applications, content management, CRM and campaign platforms, customer data and identity, consent and preferences, journey orchestration, messaging channels, personalization, recommendations, analytics, and enterprise systems. • Establish clear domain, data, event, and API boundaries that support reusable customer profiles, segmentation, decisioning, activation, attribution, and measurement while protecting privacy and consent. • Create and maintain architecture artifacts appropriate to the problem, including capability and context views, logical and component architectures, runtime/deployment views, integration and data flows, sequence diagrams, architecture decision records, and option assessments. • Define measurable non-functional requirements appropriate to the business criticality and risk of the solution. • Identify architectural decisions that materially affect scalability, security, resilience, customer experience, cost, maintainability, or future flexibility, and communicate complex architectural decisions clearly to engineering and non-technical stakeholders. • Facilitate design discussions and reviews, resolve cross-team architecture questions, and provide guardrails that allow engineering teams to make detailed implementation decisions. • Evaluate platforms, vendor capabilities, integration approaches, and buy-versus-build options, and contribute reusable patterns, architecture decisions, lessons learned, and recommendations to the broader architecture community. • Mentor engineers, technical leads, and other architects in architecture reasoning, decision making, and effective documentation. What you will bring: • 5+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise digital, data, or customer-facing technology solutions, including 3+ years leading solution architecture or equivalent architecture decision ownership. • Demonstrated experience taking an ambiguous business objective through architecture design and production delivery, with the ability to explain the business goal, architecture choices, constraints, personal contribution, and measurable outcome of at least one example. • Production cloud architecture experience with AWS and the ability to reason about appropriate compute, integration, messaging/event, data, security, networking, and observability approaches. Depth of architecture judgment matters more than familiarity with a particular list of AWS services. • Strong distributed-systems and data-architecture fundamentals, including APIs, asynchronous messaging, event streaming, idempotency, retry and replay, data modeling, identity, privacy and consent controls, and observability. • Ability to identify and define meaningful non-functional requirements rather than treating security, performance, resiliency, and operability as generic checklist items. • Experience evaluating multiple solution approaches and explaining the tradeoffs, risks, consequences, and rationale behind a final architecture decision. • Ability to create clear architecture artifacts and communicate technical decisions to business, product, architecture, and engineering audiences. • Demonstrated ability to work across organizational boundaries and lead technical decisions through influence. What will set you apart: • Experience supporting marketing, communications, digital experience, customer engagement, CRM, customer data, content, personalization, campaign, journey, analytics, experimentation, or measurement capabilities. • Understanding of customer journeys, segmentation, campaign activation, personalization, content delivery, event instrumentation, consent and preference management, and performance measurement. • Experience architecting solutions involving commercial marketing products or platforms, such as Salesforce Marketing Cloud or CRM, Adobe Experience Cloud, Braze, Twilio, customer data platforms, experimentation tools, tag management, or CMS/DXP products. Exact vendor certifications are not required. • Experience designing cross-channel engagement across email, SMS, push, web, mobile, or direct communications, including identity, consent, preference, deliverability, and customer-experience considerations. • Experience in financial services or another regulated environment where privacy, auditability, security, data protection, and operational resilience are important. • AWS certification or equivalent demonstrated knowledge of AWS architecture, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, security controls, and cost-aware cloud design. • Digital marketing and communications domain knowledge. This job operates in a professional office environment. This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications of the job. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. You will be evaluated in part based on your performance of the responsibilities and/or tasks listed in this job description. You may be required to perform other duties that are not included on this job description. The job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or the employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason, as per terms and conditions of your employment contract. What we offer you We offer an array of diverse and inclusive benefits regardless of where you are in your career. We believe that providing our employees with the means to lead healthy balanced lives results in the best possible work performance. • Medical, dental, vision and life insurance • Retirement savings - 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year • Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans • Generous paid time off upon hire - including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year • Paid volunteer time - 16 hours per calendar year • Leave of absence programs - including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA) • Business Resource Groups (BRGs) - BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all. Base Salary Range $114,000.00 - $165,300.00 The salary range above shows the typical minimum to maximum base salary range for this position in the location listed. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation offered may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.

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Empower is a retirement plan recordkeeping financial holding company based in Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States. It is the second-largest retirement plan provider in the United States.
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