# CDP Architect

**Company**: Bounteous
**Location**: United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Bounteous is seeking a CDP Architect specializing in Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform (RTCDP) to design, implement, and maintain scalable, privacy-compliant customer data architectures.

The ideal candidate brings deep RTCDP and AEP expertise, several successful full-cycle implementations, and a consultative mindset that supports scalable, enterprise-grade data systems.

## Responsibilities

- Serve as the primary platform expert for Adobe RTCDP, advising on architecture, governance, and best practices.

- Architect data models, schemas, datasets, and mappings aligned with client data structures and enterprise-scale AEP and CDP requirements.

- Design and document identity strategies including identity namespaces, stitching rules, and profile merging logic.

- Manage user roles and permissions in AEP to ensure proper access controls.

- Oversee system health and lead engineers through regular maintenance protocols to ensure compliance with organizational policies.

- Architect for Federated Audience Composition (FAC) and federated data access patterns to enable cross-system audience building and data usage, when required.

- Plan and oversee data ingestion pipelines, including batch, streaming, SDK and API, ensuring integrity, completeness, and privacy compliance.

- Ensure datasets are properly enabled for Profile with consent and data quality controls built into the ingestion strategy and data structures.

- Partner with Data Engineers to implement XDM schemas, plan data ingestion and dataset enablement, transformations, event pipelines, and monitoring.

- Define and optimize segmentation and activation strategies across AEP destinations and downstream systems.

- Align RTCDP architecture with enterprise data governance, privacy policies, and global data models.

- Lead discovery sessions to define use cases, identify data requirements, and uncover technical constraints.

- Create and present solution architecture documentation, including dataflow diagrams, identity maps, and destination activation models.

- Advise clients on privacy, consent, identity management, and governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with global policies.

- Provide expert guidance on CDP operational models, adoption patterns, and maturity roadmaps.

- Guide Data Engineers, Analysts, and partner teams throughout build, QA, and deployment cycles.

- Validate data models, ingestion mappings, and identity stitching for accuracy and scalability.

- Support activation teams through segmentation enablement and data readiness checks.

- Contribute to Bounteous CDP Centers of Excellence, frameworks, accelerators, and reusable delivery assets.

## Preferred Qualifications

- 7 to 10 or more years of experience in marketing technology, MarTech architecture, or data engineering.

- Several full end-to-end Adobe RTCDP implementations completed, including architecture, ingestion, identity design, and activation.

- 3 or more years of hands-on Adobe RTCDP and AEP experience, including XDM schema design, profile enablement, ingestion, and identity resolution.

- Experienced with APIs, streaming ingestion, and ETL or ELT pipelines.

- Experience designing for federated data architectures, including Federated Audience Composition (FAC).

- Strong understanding of Identity Service, stitching logic, profile merging, and multi-source identity and privacy challenges.

- Experience with Adobe Tags (Launch), Adobe Analytics, CJA, and Journey Optimizer strongly preferred.

- Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and data warehouses such as Snowflake, Salesforce CDP, Segment, BigQuery, or Redshift.

- Knowledge of privacy, consent, data governance, GDPR or CCPA, and enterprise security models.

- Proficient understanding of programming languages such as Python, Javascript, or SQL.

- Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication, collaboration, solution documentation, and client-facing consulting skills.

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

## Information Security Responsibilities

- Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols.

- Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets.

- Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.).

- Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information.

## Skills

### Required
- Adobe RTCDP
- Adobe Experience Platform (AEP)
- AJO
- CJA
- XDM schema design
- identity resolution
- data governance
- privacy compliance
- Python
- Javascript
- SQL

### Nice to have
- Adobe Tags (Launch)
- Adobe Analytics
- Journey Optimizer
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Snowflake
- Salesforce CDP
- Segment
- BigQuery
- Redshift
- GDPR
- CCPA

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