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You will lead the development of cloud-native solutions that enable Customer 360, Cross-Brand Loyalty, audience activation, real-time personalization, and data-driven marketing programs. Working closely with Product, Marketing, Data & Analytics, Architecture, and Platform Engineering teams, you will deliver scalable solutions that unlock customer insights and drive meaningful business outcomes.\nThe ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer with deep expertise in marketing technology ecosystems, customer data flows, event-driven architecture, and modern cloud platforms. You are passionate about building platforms that transform customer experiences while maintaining the highest standards of performance, scalability, and reliability.\nKey Responsibilities\nBuild and Scale Marketing Technology Platforms\nDesign, develop, and support enterprise-scale Marketing Technology solutions across Customer Data Platforms, Loyalty Platforms, CRM systems, Personalization Engines, and Marketing Activation platforms.\nDevelop scalable APIs, microservices, and integrations that enable seamless customer data exchange across enterprise systems.\nBuild reusable services and capabilities that support audience segmentation, customer profile management, and campaign activation.\nDevelop Real-Time Customer Data Solutions\nDesign and implement event-driven architectures leveraging Kafka to support real-time customer engagement, identity resolution, personalization, and marketing activation.\nBuild highly scalable customer data pipelines that process customer interactions across digital, loyalty, store, and marketing channels.\nPartner with Data Engineering teams to ensure data quality, governance, and customer data availability across the ecosystem.\nCloud Engineering and Platform Modernization\nDesign and deploy secure, scalable, and resilient solutions on AWS.\nUtilize AWS services to support customer data management, application integration, event streaming, analytics, and AI-driven marketing capabilities.\nDrive modernization initiatives that reduce technical debt and improve platform agility.\nEnable Customer-Centric Experiences\nPartner with Marketing, Product, Analytics, and Business stakeholders to deliver personalization, customer engagement, and loyalty capabilities.\nSupport Customer 360 and Cross-Brand Loyalty initiatives by integrating customer data across internal and third-party platforms.\nTranslate business requirements into scalable technical solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards.\nAI and Innovation\nIdentify opportunities to leverage AI and machine learning capabilities to improve customer experiences, audience targeting, campaign effectiveness, and marketing operations.\nSupport implementation of AI-enabled capabilities across the MarTech ecosystem.\nEvaluate emerging technologies and establish reusable patterns that accelerate innovation.\nEngineering Leadership\nLead technical design reviews and contribute to platform architecture decisions.\nMentor engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and best-practice adoption.\nChampion software engineering excellence through CI/CD, automated testing, observability, DevSecOps, and infrastructure-as-code practices.\nFoster a culture of collaboration, ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.\nQualifications - Experience & Capabilities\nExperience with Epsilon customer data, identity, marketing activation, or data onboarding solutions.\nFamiliarity with Loyalty Platforms, Marketing Automation Platforms, Customer Journey Orchestration tools, and CRM ecosystems.\nExperience with Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, or modern cloud-based analytics platforms.\nExperience implementing AI and machine learning capabilities within customer experience or marketing technology solutions.\nRetail, omnichannel, or eCommerce experience strongly preferred.\nSuccess Measures\nDelivery of secure, scalable, and resilient MarTech solutions.\nIncreased speed and effectiveness of customer activation and personalization capabilities.\nImproved availability and quality of customer data across platforms.\nSuccessful implementation of event-driven architectures and real-time customer data processing.\nReduced operational complexity through automation and platform modernization.\nStrong business partnership and measurable impact on customer engagement and loyalty outcomes\nWhat You Get Enjoy a rewarding career at Catalyst, where we offer a competitive benefits package, a vibrant work environment, and the opportunity to make a difference with America's most iconic retail brands.\nGenerous benefits: Medical/dental/vision insurance starting on day one, term life insurance, paid vacation/holidays, 401(k) Savings Plan with company match, and an associate discount on merchandise across all Catalyst Brands.\nOpportunities for growth and development: We are committed to helping our employees grow their careers and develop their skills. We offer a variety of training and development programs, as well as opportunities for advancement.\nCollaborative and supportive culture: We believe in creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We encourage teamwork and collaboration, and we are always looking for ways to support our employees' success.\nAbout Catalyst Brands Catalyst Brands reflects the bringing together the rich heritages of our brands with modern excitement and a new vision for success. Five iconic brands came together under a unified powerhouse portfolio to celebrate the essence of American style. We will leverage our rich history, resources and best-in-class industry talent to further build the success of our brands. At Catalyst we are united in one shared purpose: We exist to ignite America’s most beloved retail brands to make fashion accessible to all.\nFor more opportunities to join our team please visit our careers page.\nPay Range\nUSD $103,500.00 - USD $156,926.00 /Yr.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6295,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Life insurance","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-01T13:47:06Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 26","filings_12m":26,"filings_prev_12m":0,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":142500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":15,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.433,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":18,"expected_fill_days":5,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":156926,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/catalyst-brands-lead-engineer-marketing-technology","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/catalyst-brands-lead-engineer-marketing-technology.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-20T10:12:54Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":11174,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2066519},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2066519"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcatalyst-brands-lead-engineer-marketing-technology"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcatalyst-brands-lead-engineer-marketing-technology"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcatalyst-brands-lead-engineer-marketing-technology"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/catalyst-brands-lead-engineer-marketing-technology\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcatalyst-brands-lead-engineer-marketing-technology"}]}