Job Description:
Lead Solution Architect (m/w/d)
We Dream. We Do. We Deliver.
Merkle, a dentsu company, powers the experience economy. For more than 35 years, we have put people at the heart of its approach to digital business transformation. As the only integrated experience consultancy in the world with a heritage in data science and our performance, Merkle delivers holistic, end-to-end experiences that promote growth, engagement, and loyalty. Merkle’s expertise has earned recognition as a “Leader” by top industry analyst firms, in categories such as digital transformation and commerce, experience design, engineering and technology integration, digital marketing, data science, CRM and loyalty, and customer data management. With more than 16,000 employees, Merkle operates in 30+ countries throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. For more information, visit
www.merkle.com
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As an Solution/Enterprise/Business Architect, you are responsible for building the bridge translating business requirements into products and technical functions. You will take ownership of a client solution across teams and technologies along the full project lifecycle. During the delivery, you will link customer staff and internal groups to ensure customer needs are mapped to our organization’s skills and capabilities.
Internally you will help provide assets and knowledge transfer to ensure the growth and scalability of our offerings and the solution architecture practice.
You must have a balanced mix of technical and business skills and should act as a trusted advisor for our clients, and you take care of helping them to co-build impact and value within their digital transformation.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities:

• Developing digital transformation strategies, concepts and specifications for the implementation, enhancement and improvement of innovative platform solutions
• Facilitating and guiding projects, to ensure business and technology are aligned.
• Directing and supervising scalable client engagements on overall technological architecture.
• Ensuring re-use and scale of our knowledge and methods .
• Sharing, training and mapping client’s needs to Merkle capabilities.
• Acting as advisor or mentor for more junior colleagues on their project work and career development
• Gathering of business requirements and translating them into workable digital solution specifications in the form of user stories and acceptance criteria .
• Defining and enhancing industry and client specific architectures
• Advising the client on architectural solution aspects within their Vertical
• Closely collaborating with the development teams, UX / Design teams and content teams (onsite and/or offshore).
• Preparing and facilitating client workshops for idea creation and solution finding.
• Staying up to date, or ahead, of digital trends in the market and understands how they impact the client’s business
• You drive growth activities and pre-sales
• You participate in R&D and trends analysis

Additional Information:
If you feel inspired by us, we’ll probably be inspired by you. Join us now and apply online to make sure we match each other’s expectations.
We look forward to hearing from you!

Benefits include:

• 27 days of vacation + 3 wellness days
• 2 Volunteering days to share the kindness of your heart with others
• Flexible working hours and home office
• Full access to Dentsu Academy, on-site learning sessions, online language courses
• Dog friendly offices (Munich & Hamburg)
• Company pension scheme
• Team events: company parties, monthly breakfasts, and pub quizzes
• Company bicycle leasing offer ("Jobrad")
• Snacks, fruits and coffee at the office
• Sabbatical
• BahnCard 50 (for those required frequent business travelers)
• Referral bonus programme
• Employee Assistance Programme from “PME Familienservice”
• Laptop + equipment
• Corporate mobile phone subscription

Inclusion and Diversity
We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/worldview, disability, age, as well as sexual orientation and identity.
As part of our Diversity and Inclusion agenda, and as an Equal Opportunities employer, if you require reasonable adjustments during the selection process please engage directly with your Recruiter.

• Developing digital transformation strategies, concepts and specifications for the implementation, enhancement and improvement of innovative platform solutions
• Facilitating and guiding projects, to ensure business and technology are aligned.
• Directing and supervising scalable client engagements on overall technological architecture.
• Ensuring re-use and scale of our knowledge and methods .
• Sharing, training and mapping client’s needs to Merkle capabilities.
• Acting as advisor or mentor for more junior colleagues on their project work and career development
• Gathering of business requirements and translating them into workable digital solution specifications in the form of user stories and acceptance criteria .
• Defining and enhancing industry and client specific architectures
• Advising the client on architectural solution aspects within their Vertical
• Closely collaborating with the development teams, UX / Design teams and content teams (onsite and/or offshore).
• Preparing and facilitating client workshops for idea creation and solution finding.
• Staying up to date, or ahead, of digital trends in the market and understands how they impact the client’s business
• You drive growth activities and pre-sales
• You participate in R&D and trends analysi