Adobe CDP Architect

Adobe CDP Architect

Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire (possible 3-month CTH)

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Work Mode: Hybrid

Job Summary

Our client is looking for an experienced Adobe CDP Architect to help lead a customer data and journey transformation program for a Canadian organization. You'll run journey-mapping and business discovery workshops, turn business outcomes into a robust Adobe Real-Time CDP architecture, and provide technical leadership across data, identity, governance, integration, and activation. Working closely with business stakeholders and delivery teams, you'll design practical, privacy-compliant solutions and guide implementation from design through production readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead journey-mapping and use-case refinement workshops with business and technology stakeholders.

• Turn customer journeys, business rules, and desired outcomes into data, identity, profile, audience, and activation requirements.

• Own the Adobe Real-Time CDP architecture, covering schemas, identity namespaces, ingestion patterns, consent, governance, segmentation, and activation.

• Design integrations between Adobe Experience Platform and enterprise systems such as SAP, Microsoft Fabric, Azure, AWS, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, and legacy platforms.

• Provide architectural direction across Adobe Journey Optimizer or Campaign, Adobe Target, Customer Journey Analytics, and related AEP capabilities.

• Guide delivery teams through technical design, sequencing, testing, production readiness, and knowledge transfer.

• Work with privacy, security, legal, data, and business teams to build privacy by design into every activation.

• Support solution sizing, effort estimation, roadmap development, and resource planning.

Required Qualifications

• 7-10+ years in customer data, marketing technology, digital architecture, or related enterprise architecture roles.

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Adobe Real-Time CDP, and strong Adobe Experience Platform experience.

• Deep expertise in customer profiles, identity resolution, schema design, data modeling, segmentation, and activation.

• Experience with Adobe Journey Optimizer or Campaign, Adobe Target, Customer Journey Analytics, and Adobe data collection.

• Experience with batch, streaming, API-based, and event-based integrations, along with data transformation and JavaScript tagging.

• Working knowledge of SQL, XML, JSON, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, plus at least one programming language such as Python.

• The ability to turn business strategy and use cases into architecture, platform requirements, data models, integration designs, and roadmaps.

• Strong client-facing communication, workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.

• A solid understanding of data governance, consent, security, retention, and privacy regulations such as PIPEDA, GDPR, and CCPA.

• Willingness to complete a mandatory background check.

Nice to Have

• Experience in utilities, energy, telecommunications, financial services, or other regulated industries.

• Familiarity with CIS, billing, payments, contact center, OMS, IoT, or AMI data.

• Adobe Experience Platform, Real-Time CDP, or Journey Optimizer certification.

• Experience in Agile, multi-vendor, large-scale enterprise transformation programs.