Braze Architect

Role & responsibilities

Role Overview

The Braze Architect serves as the overarching technical authority for platform setup, workspace taxonomy, integration blueprints, and event-driven architecture. The role ensures the customer engagement platform is optimized for low-latency event processing, multi-market governance, security, and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform and workspace architecture: Architect the enterprise workspace hierarchy, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), API key permissions, and multi-region domain isolation.
• Data schema and integration design: Define custom attributes, custom event schemas, user aliasing strategies, and external identifier mapping models to support millions of customer profiles.
• Interface control and API contracts: Author Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and Solution Design Documents (SDDs) for inbound streaming and outbound event pipelines.
• Egress and analytics pipeline design: Architect real-time event streaming via Braze Currents into enterprise cloud lakehouses such as Azure Synapse and Snowflake.
• Technical governance and compliance: Ensure platform setup adheres to data privacy standards, including GDPR and regional telecom regulations, as well as global delivery rate limits.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Experience: 10?14+ years in enterprise MarTech architecture, including at least 4 years specializing in enterprise-scale Braze implementations.
• Certifications: Braze Certified Administrator and Braze Certified Marketer; AWS or Azure Solutions Architect certifications are preferred.
• Technical skills: Advanced knowledge of REST APIs, webhooks, JSON schemas, Cloud Data Ingestion (CDI), Braze Currents, and mobile and web SDK architectures.
• Ecosystem experience: Hands-on experience integrating marketing clouds with data lakes, including Azure Synapse and Databricks, Kafka or Event Hubs, and Content Management Systems.

Key Deliverables

• Solution Design Document (SDD) and Interface Control Documents (ICDs)
• Braze platform data dictionary and event schema blueprints
• Workspace topology and RBAC governance playbook
• Braze Currents ingestion architecture and data mapping specifications

Preferred candidate profile