Lead Enterprise Architect

About the role

Dentsu is hiring a Lead Enterprise Architect for Merkle's Digital Product Engineering (DPE) practice, a senior technical leader on a dedicated client account. The role owns the enterprise architecture layer across the engagement, ensuring platform integrity and delivery rigor as the client's strategic roadmap progresses. It is a long-term, strategic leadership position, working closely with DPE's Technology Lead on the agentic AI workstream.

Key responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technical architecture so that all solution components align to the approved roadmap and enterprise standards
• Design and govern integrated solutions anchored in the Adobe ecosystem (AEM, AEP, Target, Analytics, Workfront) and adjacent platforms such as Salesforce Clouds, middleware and data infrastructure
• Define integration contracts with the agentic AI workstream and set architectural boundaries
• Lead the initial uplift of the client's critical digital properties, keeping the architecture composable for future modernization and AI enhancement
• Design scalable integration patterns across APIs, data layers and middleware, and manage technical debt, dependencies and risks
• Mentor multi-disciplinary teams (developers, platform specialists, data engineers, QA) and lead at C-suite level with client stakeholders
• Collaborate with adjacent Merkle practices (Content Technology, Commerce, Experience Design, Analytics) and bring emerging AI capabilities into the roadmap where they add measurable value

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree; Master's degree or relevant certifications (Adobe Certified Expert/Master, Salesforce, TOGAF, AWS/GCP) strongly preferred
• 15+ years of hands-on enterprise architecture and solution delivery experience, largely in large-scale SI or digital product engineering environments
• Proven track record delivering large, complex, multi-year, global engagements ($10M+ scope) from architecture through go-live
• Experience designing and governing enterprise integration architectures (APIs, event-driven patterns, ETL/ELT, middleware)
• Ability to work at C-suite level and to operate as a hands-on leader who can whiteboard architecture and present to a CTO
• Fluent in Agile at scale (SAFe, Scrum of Scrums) and waterfall-hybrid delivery

Required skills

• Adobe Experience Manager, AEP, Target, Analytics, Workfront
• Salesforce (Marketing Cloud, Data Cloud, Service Cloud)
• Middleware and integration platforms (MuleSoft, Informatica or equivalent)
• Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and data platforms (Snowflake or similar)
• TOGAF, AWS/GCP certifications

What we offer

• Salary range of $136,000 - $180,000
• Medical, vision and dental insurance, life insurance, and disability coverage
• 401k, flexible paid time off, at least 15 paid holidays, paid sick and safe leave, and paid parental leave
• Hybrid work arrangement, with three days per week in the office for those living near the hub offices