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职位说明

The Enterprise Architecture Lead is a senior technical leader within Merkle’s Digital Product Engineering (DPE) practice, part of the broader Digital Experience (DX) organization.

DPE serves as Merkle’s rapid innovation engine and cross

capability orchestrator, delivering bespoke product development, composable modernization, and AI

powered solutions for Fortune 100 clients.

This role combines deep enterprise architecture

expertise

with a product engineering mindset. The candidate must be equally comfortable governing complex, multi-platform delivery programs and shaping what gets built and why, leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams through the practical development and delivery of production-grade solutions.

The Enterprise Architecture Lead

operates

in close partnership with DPE’s Technology Lead, who owns the agentic AI and emerging technology workstream on the account.

Together, they form a complementary architecture leadership pair: one focused on the foundational platform ecosystem, integration architecture, and delivery governance

the other on next

generation AI capabilities and innovation.

This collaboration model

ensures

the client receives both operational stability and forward-looking technical vision from a unified DPE team.

Position Requirements & Scope

This position is aligned with Merkle’s Digital Product Engineering practice, which focuses on building and delivering complex, scalable digital products and platforms for enterprise clients.

The position will be focused on one of our top

tier client accounts, a global communications services provider and technology company that

represents

a significant growth opportunity within DPE’s portfolio.

Specifically, this position will

be responsible for

owning the enterprise architecture layer across the engagement, ensuring platform integrity and delivery rigor as the client’s strategic roadmap progresses.

This is a long-term, strategic leadership role on the account, requiring sophisticated solution positioning, innovative integrations including AI, and capability progression against a strategic roadmap.

Critical Role Requirements

This is a senior, embedded position on a dedicated client team

filling

a specialized enterprise architecture capability within DPE’s delivery model. The Enterprise Architecture Lead

is responsible for

translating an approved strategic roadmap into

shipped

scalable solutions - ensuring architectural coherence, platform interoperability, and execution discipline across every workstream. This role is essential for

Architectural Governance & Delivery Oversight

Owning the end-to-end technical architecture across the engagement, ensuring all solution components align to the approved roadmap, adhere to enterprise standards, and are delivered with the quality and rigor expected of a world-class digital product engineering organization.

Multi-Platform Solution Architecture

Designing and governing integrated, enterprise

class solutions anchored in the Adobe ecosystem (AEM, AEP, Target, Analytics, Workfront) while orchestrating adjacent platforms (Salesforce Clouds, middleware, data infrastructure, and enterprise integration layers) into a unified, cohesive architecture.

This includes defining clear architectural boundaries and

integration

contracts with the agentic AI workstream.

Web & Digital Experience Delivery

Leading the

initial

phase of work focused on uplifting the client’s most critical digital properties, using Adobe Experience Manager as the foundational platform while ensuring the architecture is composable enough to support future modernization and AI-powered enhancement.

Enterprise Integration Architecture

Designing scalable integration patterns across platforms, APIs, data layers, and middleware to ensure seamless data flow, system interoperability, and operational resilience across a complex, global technology estate. This includes defining the

surface between traditional platform services and emerging AI/agent capabilities.

Delivery Excellence & Execution Discipline

Bringing the operational rigor and delivery

methodology

of a world-class product engineering engagement: sprint-level architecture involvement, technical debt management, dependency mapping, risk mitigation, and hands-on leadership that keeps large, multi-team programs on track.

Technical Leadership & Team Orchestration

Leading and mentoring multi-disciplinary delivery teams (developers, platform specialists, data engineers, QA) across workstreams, ensuring technical alignment, quality standards, and consistent architectural decision-making.

Client-Facing Technical Partnership

Serving as a senior technical authority with client stakeholders at the VP and C

suite level, translating complex architectural decisions into business

relevant language and building confidence in the delivery approach.

Presenting a coherent technical narrative that connects platform stability with innovation velocity.

Innovation Within Execution

Identifying

and incorporating emerging capabilities (AI

powered personalization, intelligent automation, agentic workflows) into the delivery roadmap where they add measurable value, not as theoretical exercises, but as production

ready enhancements integrated within the existing architecture.

Working with DPE’s Technology

to evaluate where AI capabilities should be natively embedded vs. independently orchestrated.

Cross-Practice Orchestration

Collaborating with Merkle’s adjacent practices (Content Technology, Commerce, Experience Design, Analytics) to compose solutions where DPE provides the product engineering spine. Ensuring solution designs leverage cross-practice

while maintaining DPE’s architectural standards and delivery accountability.

Business Impact & ROI

This role is the linchpin between strategy and delivered value. Without senior enterprise architecture leadership, complex multi-platform engagements risk fragmentation, scope drift, and technical debt that erode both client outcomes and Merkle margins.

The Enterprise Architecture Lead directly protects and grows the engagement by ensuring delivery stays on-roadmap, architecture

remains

sound under the pressure of real-world execution, and the client sees consistent, tangible progress. This is the role that earns the next phase of work, not through

a pitch

but through proof of execution.

Critically, this role

in tandem with DPE’s Technology Lead on the agentic workstream, which

the largest growth opportunity on the account. By

establishing

a stable, well-governed platform foundation, the Enterprise Architecture Lead creates the conditions for the agentic workstream to deliver at pace and scale, directly supporting DPE’s revenue growth

objectives

This hire reinforces Merkle’s credibility as a premier digital product engineering partner

demonstrating

that DPE

doesn’t

just design solutions but builds and ships them at enterprise scale with the architectural discipline and product thinking that Fortune 100 clients expect.

The annual salary range for this position is $136,000 - $180,000. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.

Benefits available with this position include

Medical, vision, and dental insurance

Life insurance

Short-term and long-term disability insurance

Flexible paid time off

At least 15 paid holidays per year

Paid sick and safe leave, and

Paid parental leave.

Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies.

For further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit

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Location

USA - Remote - New York

Merkle

Time Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

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providing

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