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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.\nThis role combines deep enterprise architectureexpertisewith 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.\nThe Enterprise Architecture Leadoperatesin 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 modelensuresthe client receives both operational stability and forward-looking technical vision from a unified DPE team.\nPosition Requirements & Scope\nThis 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 thatrepresentsa significant growth opportunity within DPE’s portfolio.\nSpecifically, this position willbe responsible forowning the enterprise architecture layer across the engagement, ensuring platform integrity and delivery rigor as the client’s strategic roadmap progresses.\nThis 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.\nCritical Role Requirements\nThis is a senior, embedded position on a dedicated client team,fillinga specialized enterprise architecture capability within DPE’s delivery model. The Enterprise Architecture Leadis responsible fortranslating an approved strategic roadmap intoshipped,scalable solutions - ensuring architectural coherence, platform interoperability, and execution discipline across every workstream. This role is essential for:\nArchitectural 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.\n\nMulti-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 andintegrationcontracts with the agentic AI workstream.\n\nWeb & Digital Experience Delivery - Leading theinitialphase 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.\n\nEnterprise 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 theintegrationsurface between traditional platform services and emerging AI/agent capabilities.\n\nDelivery Excellence & Execution Discipline - Bringing the operational rigor and deliverymethodologyof 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.\n\nTechnical 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.\n\nClient-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.\n\nInnovation Within Execution -Identifyingand 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 TechnologyLeadto evaluate where AI capabilities should be natively embedded vs. independently orchestrated.\n\nCross-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-practiceexpertisewhile maintaining DPE’s architectural standards and delivery accountability.\n\nBusiness Impact & ROI\nThis 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.\nThe Enterprise Architecture Lead directly protects and grows the engagement by ensuring delivery stays on-roadmap, architectureremainssound 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 througha pitch, but through proof of execution.\nCritically, this roleoperatesin tandem with DPE’s Technology Lead on the agentic workstream, whichrepresentsthe largest growth opportunity on the account. Byestablishinga 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 growthobjectives.\nThis hire reinforces Merkle’s credibility as a premier digital product engineering partner,demonstratingthat DPEdoesn’tjust design solutions but builds and ships them at enterprise scale with the architectural discipline and product thinking that Fortune 100 clients expect.\nQualifications\nBachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university;Master’sdegree or relevant certifications (Adobe Certified Expert/Master, Salesforce certifications, TOGAF, AWS/GCP) strongly preferred\n\n15+ years of hands-on enterprise architecture and solution delivery experience, witha significant portionspent in large-scale SI or digital product engineering environments (e.g., Accenture, Deloitte Digital, Thoughtworks, or equivalent product-minded organizations)\n\nBroad multi-platform fluency: Working delivery experience with adjacent enterprise platforms including Salesforce (Marketing Cloud, Data Cloud, Service Cloud), middleware/integration platforms (MuleSoft, Informatica, or equivalent), cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), and data platforms (Snowflake or similar). The differentiator is the ability to compose these into a unified architecture rather thanoperatethem in isolation.\n\nAI literacy and integration aptitude: While not required to be an AI/ML specialist, mustdemonstratea working understanding of how agentic AI, LLM-powered services, and intelligent automation integrate into enterprise architectures. Comfort collaborating with AI-focused engineering leads and defining architectural seams between traditional platform services and AI capabilities.\n\nProventrack recordof delivering large, complex, multi-year, globalSIor product engineering engagements ($10M+ scope) from architecture through go-live, including governance of multi-team, multi-vendor delivery models\n\nDemonstrated experience designing and governing enterprise integration architectures - APIs, event-driven patterns, ETL/ELT pipelines, and middleware orchestration\n\nAbility tooperateat the C-suite level with poise and credibility, translating technical architecture into business outcomes and building long-term trusted advisor relationships\n\nStrong deliverymethodologyexperience - fluent in Agile at scale (SAFe, Scrum of Scrums), waterfall-hybrid models, and the practical realities of governing large programs\n\nProduct engineering mindset: Ability to think beyond governance and into roadmap ownership, backlog strategy, and framing technical debt as a product decision rather than solely a risk register item\n\nHands-on leadership style - this role requires someone who can whiteboard an architectureand present to a CTO in the same week\n\nExcellent organizational, communication, and presentation skills with exceptional attention to detail\n\nExperience working within or alongside digital agency, CXM, or product engineering environments is a strong plus\n\nAt dentsu, we believe great work happens when we’re connected. Our way of working combines flexibility with in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams. Employees who live within a commutable distance of one of our hub offices, currently located in Chicago, metro Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York City, are required and expected to work from the office three days per week (two days per week for employees based in Los Angeles). Dentsu may designate other Hub offices at any time. Those who live outside a commutable range may be designated as remote, depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location, we expect our employees to be flexible to meet the needs of our Company and clients, which may include attendance in an office.\nThe 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.\nBenefits available with this position include:\nMedical, vision, and dental insurance,\nLife insurance,\nShort-term and long-term disability insurance,\n401k,\nFlexible paid time off,\nAt least 15 paid holidays per year,\nPaid sick and safe leave, and\nPaid parental leave.\nDentsu 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 www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.\n#LI-hybrid #LI-JH2 #LI-remote\nLocation:\nUSA - Remote - New YorkBrand:\nMerkleTime Type:\nFull timeContract Type:\nPermanentDentsuis committed to providingequal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. We do this without regard to race, color, national origin, sex ,sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religious practices and observances, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.\nDentsuis committed to providing reasonable accommodation to, among others, individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. 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