Vice President Director, Architect – Adobe Lead

Company Description

Digitas Health is the Agency of Now: the first global connected-health agency, purpose-built for marketing today. Digitas Health specializes in helping health brands navigate a complex and shifting media environment to create deeper, more relevant connections with their consumer and professional customers. With offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, and London, it is a member of the world's largest healthcare communications network, Publicis Health. As a member of this elite network, Digitas Health is also a member of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe S.A. (Euronext Paris: FR0000130577), the world's third-largest communications group, second-largest media counsel and buying group, and a leader in digital communications.

Web: www.digitashealth.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/digitashealth | Twitter: www.twitter.com/digitas_health

Job Description

Our advanced Technology capability delivers cutting-edge, high-impact digital products and platforms. We have strategic partnerships with the world’s leading marketing and technology vendors that allow us to leverage the top platforms and tools for our clients. Through collaborating with Digital Strategy, Experience Design, Creative, Data and Analytics, Project Management, and Account teams, our technologists are paving the way for innovation and transforming the marketing landscape.

Our team is made up of a diverse group of highly qualified people with various backgrounds, who bring qualities such as intellectual curiosity, determination, and creativity to our client work.

We’re searching for a Vice President Director, Architect to help support complex client engagements and lead the development and delivery of marketing technology platforms on the Adobe Experience Cloud (AEC) suite of solutions. You’ll manage technical costs, resource requirements and project phases for team projects. You’ll define and promote technical best practices, standards and technical strategies within your engineering teams with a strong focus on Adobe technologies. These services include platform and tool recommendations, full-stack software/platform development, data engineering, and cloud managed services.

As a key leader, you will partner with highly talented individuals across Digital Strategy, User Experience, Marketing, Media, Data and Analytics, and Creative to deliver transformative success for our clients. You will also be responsible for the career management for technology team members, as well as shaping the culture of the technology team.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the Adobe Experience Cloud craft and practice within the client engagement, including setting policies, processes, standards, and best practices
• Strategically planning, coordinating and overseeing process for AEC products within client engagements
• Leading a cross-agency team of AEC technologists and experts, on-shore and off-shore
• Providing leadership and/or guiding the implementation and activation of AEC implementations; identifying opportunities and providing recommendations for platform optimization through strong understanding of product roadmaps in correlation to client business goals
• Staying current on emerging Adobe marketing technologies, best-practices, and trends
• Defining and producing central engineering documents
• Adhering to functional and technical requirements
• Effectively utilizing architecture diagrams, data schemas and use cases
• Being well-versed in all phases of software engineering and all methodologies for project utilization, including Agile
• Leading project life cycle maintenance
• Mentoring designated engineering staff and developing the team’s technical skills
• Working with other capabilities to provide technical direction and efficiency
• Proposing and supporting incorporation of new technologies and tools
• Prototyping new ideas/products for applicability to project goals
• Participating in new business pitches
• Helping to review and evaluate technical partnerships and vendor relationships

Qualifications

To qualify, you’ll need:

• Four-year degree (Computer Science or equivalent preferred) or equivalent work experience
• 12+ years of work experience within the marketing technology, software or IT space
• 5+ years of experience with leading multidisciplinary technical teams
• 5+ years of experience with Adobe Experience Cloud products (especially AEM, Analytics, Workfront, and Assets, others are a huge plus)
• Recent Adobe certifications required
• 2-3 years of experience in delivering enterprise omni-channel connected marketing soluti