About the Role
Engineering architect for enterprise CDP clients. You are the single technical owner for assigned clients -responsible for everything from solution design and data onboarding through platform configuration, integration architecture, go-live, and ongoing technical health. You identify and close product gaps by working directly with core engineering and contribute code to the platform.

What You Will Do
Design solution architecture per client - data ingestion strategy, schema mapping, identity resolution approach, segmentation logic, campaign orchestration flow
Configure and customize the CDP for client-specific use cases
Identify product gaps, write engineering specs, work with core product team to ship fixes
Own the client end-to-end from a technical standpoint - data onboarding, platform configuration, integration architecture, go-live readiness, and ongoing technical health
Contribute as senior developer on core product and applications between client engagements
Recognize cross-client patterns and translate them into product features

Must-Have




8+ years hands-on software engineering
Java/JVM - can read, debug, refactor, and contribute to a production Spring Boot codebase
SQL + analytical databases - complex queries, stored procedures, performance tuning on Snowflake or BigQuery
Data architecture - can design end-to-end data flows: ingestion → transformation → identity resolution → segmentation → activation
Kafka - understands producers, consumers, topic design, partitioning, consumer groups, offset management
MongoDB - schema design, aggregation pipelines, indexing strategies, query optimization
API design - RESTful services, integration patterns, webhook architectures
Data modeling - star schema, EAV, slowly changing dimensions, multi-tenant schema patterns
Experience designing solutions across the stack - not just backend or just frontend, but the full path from raw client data to campaign execution
Can whiteboard a solution architecture with a c

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