Job Title: Solutions Architect – Customer Decisioning & Marketing Tech

Location: Remote (Turkey-based, aligned with UK working hours)

Contract: Initial 6 months, with strong potential for 12-month extension (up to 18 months total)

Cressoft is a UK-based IT consultancy, operating since 2011 and delivering elite technical talent to global brands. We are the exclusive offshore partner for a major UK retail digital transformation programme with one of the UK’s largest supermarket chains.

We're hiring a Solutions Architect to join a fast-paced transformation programme focused on replacing third-party marketing data solutions with scalable, internal capabilities. This role sits at the intersection of Customer Decisioning and Marketing Technology, working across domains such as customer data, campaign systems, and interaction data.

This is a replacement role ensuring design continuity, strategic direction, and architectural leadership as the programme evolves.

🔧 What You’ll Do

• Design solutions across customer and marketing tech domains
• Bridge domain architecture and detailed data architecture for scalable delivery
• Replace legacy or third-party systems with robust internal solutions
• Recommend appropriate tools and technologies (e.g. Kafka, APIs, cloud infra)
• Collaborate across AWS-based systems (some Azure exposure beneficial)
• Work with product, marketing, engineering, and architecture teams

✅ Key Requirements

• 3+ years in solutions architecture (software engineering background preferred)
• Strong experience in customer/marketing data systems and GDPR considerations
• Deep understanding of SCV, MDM, CRM, CDP, ETL, and real-time data paradigms
• Experience with API integration, Snowflake, SaaS marketing platforms (a plus)
• Familiarity with AWS (Azure exposure is a bonus)
• Confident communicator and stakeholder manager across business and tech
• Industry background in retail, e-commerce, or B2C preferred (not mandatory)

🧠 Who You’ll Work With

• Collaborate with domain and data architects, engineering managers, and product leads
• Work closely with marketing, finance, logistics, and other business functions