Insight Global
CDP Lead Engineer
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Insight Global are seeking a Customer Data Platform (CDP) Lead Engineer / Solution Architect for a leading global data and technology organisation.
This is a unique greenfield opportunity to play a pivotal role in the design, delivery, and long-term ownership of a new enterprise Digital Marketing Platform (DMP). Working at the intersection of data engineering, architecture, and marketing technology, you will help build the foundations for Customer 360 capabilities, customer segmentation, and activation across the business.
This position requires 1 day onsite per week in Sutton, UK.
The successful candidate will partner closely with engineering, data, marketing, and business stakeholders to design scalable customer data solutions, establish robust data governance practices, and enable trusted customer insights across the enterprise. Initially focused on a major platform implementation, you will help shape the future state architecture and gradually transition ownership from external vendors to internal teams.
Responsibilities:
- Design and architect scalable customer data solutions aligned to enterprise business objectives
- Build and integrate data pipelines to ingest, transform, unify, and synchronise customer data from multiple sources
- Develop and maintain customer data models supporting Customer 360 profiles, segmentation, and activation use cases
- Integrate CDP solutions with enterprise data platforms while ensuring strong governance and consistency
- Lead technical workshops focused on architecture, integration design, and data modelling
- Identify technical and data risks while defining mitigation strategies
- Monitor and optimise platform performance, data quality, and operational processes
- Establish documentation, governance standards, and compliance controls
- Partner closely with implementation partners and internal stakeholders throughout delivery and operationalisation phases
- Contribute within Agile delivery environments and support ongoing platform evolution
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Must-Have Requirements Include:
- Experience within software engineering, data engineering, data architecture, or a related technical discipline
- Proven experience operating as a senior engineer, technical lead, or principal individual contributor responsible for critical platforms or enterprise capabilities
- Hands-on experience with a Customer Data Platform (CDP) such as Oracle Unity CDP, Salesforce Data Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Tealium, or similar
- Strong expertise in Customer 360 architecture and customer data modelling
- Experience designing, building, and supporting scalable data pipelines and ETL processes
- Strong SQL and Python skills with experience working with JSON-based data structures
- Experience integrating platforms across broader enterprise ecosystems, including data lakes, CRM platforms, marketing automation tools, and analytics solutions
- Experience working with modern cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, Snowflake, or Databricks
- Strong understanding of REST APIs and system integrations
- Knowledge of data governance, data quality frameworks, security standards, and privacy regulations including GDPR
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This opportunity will suit candidates who enjoy building enterprise-scale customer data platforms from the ground up and want to influence the future direction of customer data, marketing technology, and digital experiences within a highly visible transformation programme.
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