Vice President Group Director, Solutions Architect Systems and Experience Engineering
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Boston, NH - USA
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Job Summary
Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks. Today and tomorrow. We deliver Networked Experiences by leveraging comprehensive data technology creative media and strategy capabilities. Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes via unique solutions that include Creative Experiences Integrated Media Addressable Relationships Social Marketing and Total Commerce. Celebrated by AdAge as Data and Insights Agency of the Year U.S Campaigns Brand Experience Agency of the Year Media Network of the Year and celebrated by Forrester and Gartner Digitas serves the worlds leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 5500 employees across over 65 offices in 43 countries.
The Digitas culture is made up of fearless inventive and generous Unicorns of all kinds.
Vice President Group Director Solutions Architect - Systems and Experience Engineering
Digitas is seeking a Vice President Group Director Solutions Architect - Systems and Experience Engineering to accelerate adoption of its bespoke generative AI platform across internal teams and clients. This role partners with various Digitas capabilities to design production-ready scalable solutions for marketing and experience use cases.
This leader translates ambiguous business problems into practical architectures and guides teams through implementation using AI automation APIs/MCPs orchestration and pragmatic engineering choices that deliver measurable outcomes.
The role requires product mindset engineering depth and client consulting skill with the ability to influence systems roadmap priorities and communicate effectively with executives and technical teams.
Key Responsibilities:
Partner with Digital Product Managers to translate business problems into feasible delivery approaches; co-lead solution concepting and define the path from concept to production.
Design end-to-end architectures combining AI agents integrations APIs data automation and custom application components aligned to approved platform patterns.
Guide architecture of agentic workflows that use structured data and unstructured content.
Identify reusable patterns and convert them into platform features enablement materials and reference architectures.
Define non-functional requirements including scalability performance reliability security auditability and maintainability.
Contribute to assessing marketing and advertising workflows to identify high-impact opportunities across content operations campaign execution analytics personalization and measurement.
Lead client sessions to understand business objectives and existing systems to define an appropriate solution approach.
Document client technology stacks dependencies data flows and constraints; translate findings into architecture options and integration strategies.
Collaborate with architects and engineers to integrate with MarTech ecosystems such as CDP/CRM CMS tag management ad platforms and analytics stacks.
Conduct technology audits and vendor analyses; recommend build-vs-buy paths based on fit cost risk APIs service constraints and delivery impact.
Ensure discovery outputs translate into clear technical options constraints and architecture decisions.
Provide architecture governance across the SDLC including reviews and risk management ensuring implementation aligns to approved solutions and platform patterns.
Provide scoping inputs: assumptions dependencies risks sequencing staffing and level-of-effort.
Serve as a senior client-facing technical lead: co-facilitate discovery with Digital Product Managers lead technical working sessions deliver architecture playbacks and demos and communicate tradeoffs clearly.
Explain complex architecture risks and tradeoffs for executives marketers and engineers.
Build trusted relationships with senior client technology stakeholders and facilitate decisions when business product and engineering priorities conflict.
Maintain a clear through-line from proposal to design to delivery.
Stay current on generative AI agentic patterns evaluation approaches and emerging standards; identify opportunities to improve platform capabilities and delivery methods.
Apply responsible AI principles including privacy data handling consent access controls governance auditability and model limitation awareness.
Define practical AI evaluation approaches for quality bias reliability monitoring and drift.
Maintain strong organization time management and risk mitigation across distributed teams.
Were looking for strong impactful work experience which typically includes:
10 years in solution engineering solution architecture technology consulting product engineering or related roles delivering complex digital initiatives.
4 years in a digital agency professional services or consulting environment.
Ability to assess business goals user needs constraints and systems to define solution approaches.
Ability to translate business and technical requirements into clear architectures and recommendations.
Hands-on expertise designing deploying and optimizing generative AI solutions including prompt engineering and evaluation.
Strong API and integration knowledge with ability to partner across platforms infrastructure and QA teams.
Track record leading cross-functional agile teams and shipping production work.
Executive communication presentation and client engagement skills.
Comfort as an IC / player-coach: hands-on when needed guiding through influence.
Strong technical documentation skills including architecture diagrams integration patterns and strategy.
Preferred
Experience implementing solutions in and around MarTech and advertising technology ecosystems.
Experience building reusable internal platform capabilities used across multiple client teams.
Experience evaluating AI vendors/APIs/models on capability cost service levels integration requirements and platform fit.
Our Publicis Groupe motto Viva La Différence means were better together and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities across all facets of intersectionality and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.
Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage dental vision disability 401K as well as parental and family care leave family forming assistance tuition reimbursement and flexible time off.
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About Company
Publicis Media is one of the four solutions hubs of Publicis Groupe ([Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40], alongside Publicis Communications, Publicis.Sapient and Publicis Healthcare. Led by Steve King, CEO, Publicis Media is powered by its five global brands, Starcom, Zenith, Spark ... View more
