Braze Architect.
This mandate is run by SYMPHONI HR, a Mumbai-based executive search firm, est. 2003. Applications are email-verified and reach the search team running the role — confidentially, always.
About the organisation.
A global data analytics and digital operations company that partners with leading organizations to improve business outcomes and unlock growth. It combines deep domain expertise, advanced analytics, AI, and cloud technologies to transform customer experiences. The company works across a broad client base and values innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence.
About the role.
We are seeking a Braze Architect to serve as the technical and strategic authority on Braze and the surrounding customer data ecosystem. You will define target-state architectures connecting Braze with CDPs, reverse ETL tools, product analytics platforms, and cloud data warehouses. You will lead enterprise-scale implementations and migrations, set engineering and governance standards, advise senior stakeholders, and build reusable assets and talent for the practice.
What you will do.
- Define end-to-end Braze reference architectures covering workspace strategy, data model, identity, custom attributes and events, catalogs, and multi-brand or multi-region setups.
- Design scalable, secure, and compliant integration patterns across Braze, CDPs, data warehouses, and source systems using batch, streaming, and API-driven approaches.
- Architect Canvas Flow journeys and orchestration frameworks across email, push, in-app, SMS, WhatsApp, Content Cards, and webhooks.
- Establish personalization architecture using Liquid, Connected Content, Catalogs, Content Blocks, and Braze AI features.
- Design identity resolution and unified customer profile strategy, including external ID management and anonymous-to-known merges.
- Architect warehouse-native activation with Snowflake, Hightouch or Census, and integrate CDPs such as Amperity and behavioral analytics with Amplitude.
- Define event taxonomy, schema governance, data contracts, and data-quality monitoring across the stack.
- Lead technical delivery of implementation, migration, and optimization programs, and set standards for SDK integration, CI/CD, and QA.
- Run discovery workshops with senior business and technology stakeholders and translate goals into technical roadmaps.
- Mentor leads and developers, and build reusable accelerators, playbooks, and certification paths for the team.
What you bring.
- 5+ years of hands-on Braze experience with architect-level ownership of at least two enterprise implementations or migrations.
- Deep command of Canvas Flow, segmentation, Liquid, Connected Content, Catalogs, and Braze SDKs, REST API, webhooks, Currents, and Cloud Data Ingestion.
- Strong working depth in at least two of: Hightouch, Amperity, Amplitude, and Snowflake, with conversational fluency in the others.
- Advanced SQL and working proficiency in Python or JavaScript / Node.js for integrations and automation.
- Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures (Kafka, Kinesis, or similar) and a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, and environment promotion practices, plus HTML/CSS for responsive email and in-app templates.
- Knowledge of lifecycle marketing, personalization, segmentation, and consent and privacy frameworks such as GDPR and CCPA.
- Executive-level communication and stakeholder management skills, with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant technical field.
- Braze certification (Architect, Developer, or Marketer) is strongly preferred.
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