Lead Enterprise Architect

Job description

Job Description: The Enterprise Architecture Lead is a senior technical leader within Merkle’s Digital Product Engineering (DPE) practice, part of the broader Digital Experience (DX) organization. DPE serves as Merkle’s rapid innovation engine and cross-capability orchestrator, delivering bespoke product development, composable modernization, and AI-powered solutions for Fortune 100 clients. This role combines deep enterprise architecture expertise with a product engineering mindset. The candidate must be equally comfortable governing complex, multi-platform delivery programs and shaping what gets built and why, leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams through the practical development and delivery of production-grade solutions. The Enterprise Architecture Lead operates in close partnership with DPE’s Technology Lead, who owns the agentic AI and emerging technology workstream on the account. Together, they form a complementary architecture leadership pair: one focused on the foundational platform ecosystem, integration architecture, and delivery governance; the other on next-generation AI capabilities and innovation. This collaboration model ensures the client receives both ope...