Principal Multi-Cloud Architect (Remote)

Mission Statement

The mission of Acxiom's' Cloud Growth division is to "advance strategic partnerships and optimize cloud product development to deliver secure, scalable, and efficient cloud solutions while harnessing the power of partnerships, understanding the nuances of each client's vision, and shaping Acxiom's offerings with intelligent services to meet those needs."

Role Summary:

As part of the Cloud Growth, team you will be one of the subject matter experts in Acxiom's portfolio of performance marketing solutions, services, partnerships, and proprietary data to help clients acquire, retain, and grow their customer base while increasing brand trust and engagement. In both pre-sales & post-sales capacities, you will partner with the sales/account team to consult with clients/prospects to provide the most effective workflows, offerings, and services to achieve their marketing goals by having a strong understanding of their brand vision, challenges, customer segmentation, data infrastructure and requirements, marketing/ad technology stacks, resource allocations and constraints. The role will partner with the Head of Solutions Consulting to create bespoke client solutions in partnership with solutions engineering, solutions architecture, R&D, IT, sales, and account management as well as support Acxiom's marketing team to create general best practices and industry POVs. Additionally, this role will be pivotal in driving client adoption of Acxiom's cloud ecosystem partnerships as well as improving collective offerings with reputable players in the space for clients in cloud technologies, marketing technologies, identity solutions, and more.

*This role can be located almost anywhere in the U.S.

What You Will Do:

• Lead consultations with enterprise clients/prospects to identify their business case(s), performance marketing strategy(ies), core customer base, data needs, technology stack, infrastructure, pain points, and overall requirements

• Conduct whiteboard sessions and presentations on custom workflows, offerings, services, and timelines that addresses the client's/prospect's requirements

• Collaborate with solutions architects, solutions engineers, and r&d on technical

feasibility, production costs, resource allocation, etc. for proposed solutions

• Review ethical and privacy compliance requirements of proposed solutions with

legal team

• Partner with sales and account managers to quantify the cost of proposed

solutions and provide SOWs

• Manage cloud partnerships and constantly innovate with them based on

client/prospect needs, industry shifts, privacy changes, and emerging

technologies entering the market

• Research, RFI, and vet new and emerging cloud technologies for future

partnerships

What You Will Have:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience

• 8+ years of experience in multi-cloud solutions consulting, solutions architecture, solutions engineering, data operations, and/or ad operations for a martech/adtech company, advertising agency, publisher, brand, advertiser, and/or data company

• Deep knowledge of the martech/adtech ecosystem, inclusive of data

management platforms (i.e. Adobe Audience Manager, etc.), customer data

platforms (i.e. TreasureData, etc.), ad serving technologies (i.e. CM360, etc.),

demand side platforms (i.e. TTD, MediaMath, Xandr, etc.), sell side platforms (i.e. GAM, Magnite, Pubmatic, Xandr, etc.), identity resolution products, and

marketing automation tools

• Experience working with Snowflake, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or similar

cloud-based technologies

• Deep understanding of identity data and use in the marketing ecosystem

• Good understanding of how performance marketing, ad operations,

programmatic buying, identity, and audience segmentation works and the pipes that connect them together

• Knowledge of relational databases, data schemas, data joins, and data

manipulation

• Proficient experience with SQL, wireframing, automation, data querying, data

processing, data ingestion, data output, and more

• Building relationships with internal and external stakeholders, clients, and team members

• Always curious and willing to learn, try new things, and not be afraid to fail

• Personable with everybody, even-keeled, and analytical thinker

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Primary Location City/State:

Homebased - Conway, Arkansas

Additional Locations (if applicable):

Acxiom is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other employment of associates or the awarding of subcontracts because of a person's race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, protected veteran, military status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics or other protected status.

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Attention Colorado, California, Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, New York City, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Washington Applicants: This position is not located in the aforementioned locations but applications for remote work may be considered. For information about this role under state or local equal pay or pay transparency laws, please contact [email protected].