Senior Solutions Architect - Customer Data (CDP) and Loyalty

Title: Senior Solutions Architect - Customer Data (CDP) and Loyalty

Location: Remote - Washington DC

Duration: Long-term (16+ Months)

Basic Architecture Patterns

Layered architecture (UI → API → services → data)

Microservices vs monolith tradeoffs

Event-driven architecture fundamentals (pub/sub, async messaging)

API & Integration Design

REST/JSON APIs (design, versioning, error handling)

Basic understanding of GraphQL (nice-to-have given your mobile/BFF context)

Data Fundamentals

Data modeling basics (entities, relationships, normalization vs denormalization)

Understanding of customer data platforms (CDP concepts)

Cloud Fundamentals (AWS preferred)

Compute (EC2, containers, serverless basics)

Storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB concepts)

Networking basics (VPC, subnets, security groups)

Hiring Manager Notes:

Solutions Architect with Customer domain experience in loyalty and marketing rather than UI.

Data Integrations experience.

Data Fundamentals/ APIs experience

CDP (Customer Data Platform/ Customer Data Domain/ Customer Domain) knowledge is critical

ETL experience

Knowledge of CRM Concepts

AEM/ AEM experience is a plus

Airlines/ Bus/ Rail/ Hotel/ Entertainment industry/ domain experience

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