Senior Solution Architect, Data Technology

Sony Corporation of America, located in New York, NY, is the U.S. headquarters of Sony Group Corporation, based in Tokyo, Japan. Sony's principal U.S. businesses include Sony Electronics Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music Publishing and Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. With some 900 million Sony devices in hands and homes worldwide today, a vast array of Sony movies, television shows and music, and the PlayStation Network, Sony creates and delivers more entertainment experiences to more people than anyone else on earth. To learn more: www.sony.com/en.
 

POSITION SUMMARY

Sony Corporation of America (SCA), is seeking a Sr Solution Architect of Data Technology to join the Digital Transformation (DX) group based in Culver City CA. The DX group drives the delivery of impactful program solutions globally across Sony Group Companies. Our aim is to accelerate business growth by connecting strategic initiatives with human expertise, creativity, and collaboration.

In this role, you will imagine, define, and drive delivery and rollout of features, services or tools that help improve our enterprise platform and experiences across users of the Sony Group Companies to support strategic business decisions. This is a highly collaborative role that will interact with Sony Group Companies to deeply understand their needs and use insights to prioritize and design features for a broader data exchange platform.

This position is a hybrid role requiring 2 days on-site in the Culver City Office.

Responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include: Solution Architect of Data Technology and Customer Engagement

• Strategic Planning:

  • Collaborate with data business leadership to understand business goals and objectives.

  • Develop comprehensive data-driven business and technology roadmaps aligned with the organization's strategy.

  • Conduct technology assessments and identify opportunities for optimization and improvement.

• Solution Design:

  • Design and architect scalable and flexible marketing technology solutions.

  • Select and integrate appropriate tools and platforms to meet specific marketing needs.

  • Develop detailed technical specifications and documentation.

• Implementation:

  • Oversee the implementation of marketing technology solutions, ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets.

  • Collaborate with development teams and IT teams to ensure seamless integration with existing systems.

  • Provide technical guidance and support during implementation.

• Data Management:

  • Develop data governance strategies to ensure data quality and integrity.

  • Design data architecture and workflows to support marketing analytics and reporting.

  • Implement data integration and synchronization processes.

• Optimization and Maintenance:

  • Continuously monitor and optimize marketing technology performance.

  • Identify and resolve technical issues and performance bottlenecks.

  • Stay up to date with emerging marketing technology trends and best practices.

• Team Leadership:

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive successful marketing initiatives.

  • Acts as a liaison between Sony Group Company representatives and the DX group, communicating appropriately and effectively with co-workers, clients, and supervisors, while maintaining awareness of project status and any potential delay, situation, or concern that may affect the outcome of the projects.

• Customer Engagement:

  • Drives conversations with customers to demonstrate alignment between customer objectives and our product.

  • Synthesize customer feedback into product development insights and address unmet customer needs.

  • Collaborate with our Business Promotion team to understand and address customer pain points.

• Honesty, trustworthiness and ethical conduct are material requirements for the responsibilities outlined above.