VP, AI Solutions Architect

Job Description

The Role

We are seeking a highly technical and innovative Vice President, AI Solutions Architect to join our Office of the CTO. You will be a founding member of a new AI Solutions team, with direct influence on how the practice, its platform, and its standards take shape. This role blends hands-on technical architecture, strategic platform development, and client-facing leadership. As VP of AI Solutions Architecture, you will be the technical authority who translates cutting-edge AI capabilities into enterprise-ready solutions that deliver measurable business value.

Reporting to the SVP, AI Solutions, you will lead the design and implementation of complex AI and agentic architectures, drive our platform integration strategy, and serve as the senior technical voice on our most strategic client engagements. The role demands deep technical expertise combined with the ability to orchestrate multi-faceted solutions that draw on our portfolio of AI technologies, cloud partnerships, and emerging capabilities. You will work with a globally distributed team of AI specialists to build prototypes, lead technical hackathons, and pioneer solutions that position Merkle at the forefront of enterprise AI adoption.

This is an opportunity to shape how Fortune 500 companies implement AI at scale, while directly influencing Merkle’s AI platform evolution and technical strategy.

What

You’llDo

Architecture & Solution Design

• Design end-to-end AI and agentic solutions that meet enterprise requirements for scalability, security, reliability, and performance.
• Create reference architectures, patterns, and blueprints for common use cases (e.g., customer service, marketing personalization, analytics automation).
• Define integration approaches, APIs, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectivity between AI services and platforms such as Salesforce, Adobe, Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, Databricks, and Snowflake.
• Apply a range o