CTO/Senior Architect

Responsibilities

• Define and validate the technical blueprint across cloud data warehouse, clean room infrastructure, embedding compute, and privacy controls
• Own the data modeling strategy for large-scale behavioral signals across multiple data sources and device types
• Design the embeddings architecture and feature store supporting advertising, commerce, and AI use cases
• Guide clean room design and ensure compliance with applicable privacy frameworks
• Identify and resolve critical path blockers across infrastructure, integrations, and identity resolution
• Bridge between Blend’s engineering and data science teams and the client’s senior technical stakeholders
• Participate in regular leadership touchpoints with the client’s commercial and product leadership
• Translate technical capabilities into commercially relevant differentiation

Requirements

• 10+ years in data or platform architecture
• At least 3 years on systems at significant scale
• Deep experience with Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, or comparable enterprise data platforms
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical strategy in high-stakes client or executive contexts
• Experience designing for privacy, compliance, or security constraints
• Background in consulting delivery or embedded partner roles

Preferred Qualifications

• Clean room or federated data architecture experience
• Embeddings or feature store work
• Identity resolution or data monetization projects
• AWS or cloud infrastructure design
• DSP or SSP experience

About the Company

Blend360 is a premier data, AI, and marketing consulting firm that partners with the world's most ambitious organizations to turn complex challenges into competitive advantage.