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Responsibilities
- Own the enterprise CDP architecture vision and govern AEP platform topology, environment strategy, XDM schemas, datasets, and Customer Profile alignment.
- Lead client data-source deep dives and define target AEP ingestion architectures and XDM data models for systems including Redshift, Reltio, Veeva, and Adobe Target.
- Construct technical architectures for multiple AEP solutions while aligning with client standards, regulatory requirements, use cases, and technical constraints.
- Lead architecture review boards, evaluate designs against enterprise standards, and document deviations and risk assessments.
- Select and govern batch, streaming, CDC, Flow Service API, and Federated Audience Composition ingestion patterns.
- Define batch ingestion architectures using AEP Batch Connectors, Amazon S3, Azure ADLS, Google Cloud Storage, SFTP, Parquet, JSON, CSV, and Avro.
- Design CDC integrations using Kafka, Debezium, and AEP Streaming Inlets, including topic conventions, schema registry alignment, and dead-letter queue strategies.
- Govern ETL and ELT architecture standards for ADF, Informatica IDMC, Talend, and dbt workloads feeding AEP.
- Govern custom source integrations and AEP Sources SDK standards, including connection objects, mapping sets, authentication, pagination, rate limiting, and recovery patterns.
- Define data quality gates, profile completeness thresholds, identity-resolution metrics, compliance evidence, and governance frameworks.
- Manage concurrent client engagements and collaborate with data engineers, marketing technologists, business analysts, and QA leads.
- Mentor senior developers and lead engineers and present architecture decisions and trade-offs to client stakeholders.
Requirements
- At least 15 years of experience in enterprise architecture; the professional profile also specifies 12–15 years overall experience with at least 5 years in AEP or Adobe Experience Cloud architecture and enterprise CDP delivery.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent, with minimum 15 years of full-time education, in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 2 years of hands-on SQL experience, including AEP Query Service using the PostgreSQL dialect and Data Distiller.
- Expert-level Adobe Experience Platform and RTCDP proficiency covering platform architecture, data modeling, ingestion design, and governance.
- Authority-level experience with the AEP Flow Service API object model, Data Prep mapping architecture, and CI/CD-based sandbox-to-production promotion.
- Experience designing Federated Audience Composition architectures with Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Azure Synapse, Private Link, and VPC Peering.
- Experience governing integrations with Redshift, Reltio, and Veeva, including authentication, XDM mapping, and delta ingestion.
- Knowledge of REST APIs, OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0, JWT, webhook patterns, event-driven architecture, DULE, Policy Service API, GDPR/CCPA, consent management, and Privacy Service API.
- Adobe Certified Expert certification in Adobe Experience Platform Technical Foundations and/or RTCDP is preferred.
- Snowflake SnowPro Core certification, Adobe Journey Optimizer, Adobe Customer Journey Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Audience Manager, and Adobe Target knowledge are advantageous.
- Strong communication, organizational, consensus-building, negotiation, stakeholder-management, and distributed-team leadership skills are required.
Benefits
- The position is based at the Accenture Pune office.
Tech Stack
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Solutions Engineering
About Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services firm providing management consulting, systems integration and technology, cybersecurity, and business process outsourcing for enterprises and governments. It operates a services-driven model delivering projects and managed services, often with major cloud and software partners, across industries worldwide. Headquartered in Dublin and publicly traded on the NYSE (ACN), it originated as Andersen Consulting and adopted the Accenture name in 2001.