Salesforce Data Cloud Architect

About the role

Skechers Digital Team is seeking a Salesforce Data Cloud Architect reporting to the Director, Digital Architecture, Consumer Domain. This role is responsible for designing and governing Skechers’ Consumer Data 360 ecosystem, enabling identity resolution, high-quality data foundations, personalization, loyalty intelligence, and machine learning capabilities across digital and retail channels.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the full technical life cycle of consumer platform capabilities which includes:
• Capability roadmap and technical architecture in alignment to consumer experience
• Technical planning, design, and execution
• Operations, analytics/reporting, and adoption
• Define and evolve Skechers’ Consumer Data 360 architecture, including identity resolution (deterministic and probabilistic matching) and unified customer profiles.
• Arcitect scalable data models and pipelines across CDP, CRM, e-commerce, marketing automation, data lake, and warehouse platforms.
• Establish enterprise data quality frameworks including validation, deduplication, anomaly detection, and observability.
• Optimize SQL workloads and large-scale distributed queries through performance tuning, partitioning, indexing, and workload management strategies.
• Design and oversee ML pipelines supporting personalization, churn modeling, and recommender systems.
• Partner with Data Science teams to productionize models using distributed platforms such as Databricks (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow preferred).
• Ensure secure data governance, access control (RBAC/ABAC), and compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and related privacy regulations.
• Provide architectural oversight ensuring performance, scalability, resilience, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business objectives (LTV growth, personalization lift, engagement) into scalable data solutions.

Requirements

• Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related degree or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years experience architecting enterprise data platforms in cloud environments.
• 8+ years experience with data engineering with a focus on consumer data.
• 6+ years experience working with Salesforce platforms, including data models and enterprise integrations.
• Strong experience with Data 360 and identity resolution architectures.
• Proven expertise in SQL performance tuning and large-scale data modeling.
• Hands-on experience implementing ML pipelines and recommender systems in production environments.
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Experience with integration patterns (API, ETL, event streaming).
• Experience providing technical leadership and guidance across multiple projects and development teams.
• Experience translating business requirements into detailed technical specifications and working with development teams through implementation, including issue resolution and stakeholder communication.
• Strong project management skills including scope assessment, estimation, and clear technical communication with both business users and technical teams.
• Salesforce Certifications preferred (Platform App Builder, Platform Developer 1, JavaScript Developer 1).
• Experience with Databricks or similar distributed data/ML platforms preferred.