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This role will contribute to the architecture, design, and strategic evolution of Salesforce Marketing platforms, partnering closely with Marketing, CRM, Data, and Engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-impact marketing solutions.\nThis role blends hands-on technical leadership, platform strategy, and cross-functional enablement, ensuring our marketing technology stack supports both current execution and future growth.\nKey Responsibilities\nPlatform Architecture & Technical Leadership\nAct as the solution architect and technical authority for Salesforce Marketing platforms, including Salesforce Marketing Cloud and related CRM integrations.\nDesign and govern end-to-end marketing technology architectures, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and alignment with enterprise standards.\nLead technical decision-making for platform enhancements, integrations, and modernization initiatives across marketing and CRM systems.\nSalesforce Marketing Platform Ownership\nOwn the implementation, configuration, and optimization (as aligned with key business stakeholders) of Salesforce Marketing Cloud capabilities (features, integrations, and APIs).\nPartner with CRM and data teams to ensure seamless data flow between Salesforce CRM, marketing platforms, and downstream analytics.\nProvide architectural guidance for adoption of Salesforce Data Cloud and Marketing Cloud Next, including identity resolution, segmentation, and activation use cases (preferred).\nCross-Functional Partnership & Enablement\nServe as a trusted technical advisor to stakeholders, clearly communicating tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations.\nSupport platform enablement through documentation, design standards, and technical training material, helping teams adopt best practices effectively.\nDelivery, Governance & Continuous Improvement\nAdvise and support complex marketing technology initiatives from design through delivery, ensuring quality and on-time execution.\nEstablish and enforce governance, architectural patterns, and development standards across marketing technology solutions.\nStay current with Salesforce releases and industry trends, proactively recommending innovations that improve efficiency, personalization, and customer experience.\nRequired Qualifications\n Extensive hands-on experience with Salesforce Marketing Platforms (Salesforce Marketing Cloud required), Data Cloud and Marketing Cloud Next preferred.\nProven experience as a Solution Architect, Lead Engineer, or Principal-level technical contributor in marketing or CRM technology.\nStrong understanding of marketing automation, customer journeys, data integration, and personalization at scale.\nExperience designing and integrating solutions across Salesforce CRM and enterprise data ecosystems.\nAbility to lead through influence, partnering effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nAt least 5 recent years’ experience with Salesforce Marketing Automation platforms\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with Salesforce Data Cloud and/or Marketing Cloud Next.\nSalesforce certifications (Marketing Cloud Consultant, Architect, or equivalent).\nExperience supporting enterprise-scale marketing transformations or roadmap-driven platform evolution.\nBackground in MarTech governance, platform strategy, and enablement.\nWhy This Role Matters\nThis role is critical to ensuring our marketing technology platforms are future-ready, well-architected, and capable of supporting sophisticated, data-driven marketing strategies. Like Lisa Edington’s role, this position combines technical depth, strategic thinking, and organizational leadership to drive real business impact.\nThis is a hybrid work setup, with a preference for candidates who are able to work onsite at our Durham office three days per week.\nApplications will be accepted through March 25. This window may be extended depending on business needs.\nCompensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. 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