Senior Solutions Architect, EMEALocation: Remote. Continental Europe or compatible time zone preferred. (roughly UTC-1 to UTC+3)Clients: Integral. Primarily EMEA and North American.Reports to: VP of SolutionsSalary Range: $70,000 - $150,000 USD annually. Compensation dependent on candidate experience and location.About McGawOur Mission at McGaw.Io is to help companies of all sizes realize their customer data is their most valuable business asset, and we help them realize that through customer data infrastructure, high power analytics, marketing automation, personalization, and funnel optimization.McGaw.Io supports businesses with analytics, marketing automation, customer data platforms, data piping, websites, AB testing, and all sorts of marketing operations. As we derive insights from these technical efforts, we also inform & execute growth strategies that routinely move the needle for our clients.Our track record is impeccable, and our leadership has supported some of the fastest-growing companies in the world. McGaw.Io’s core client base sells online and has complex data and marketing practices that drive our team to dig deeper every day.MissionOwn technical delivery across your accounts. Design the stack, build the hard parts, direct the technical team, and keep projects on schedule and profitable.Why this role existsOur clients are spread across North America and Europe, but our technical bench is not. European accounts wait a day for answers and North American accounts compete for the same people. This role adds senior technical capacity in a time zone that covers both.ResponsibilitiesArchitecture and designDesign end-to-end customer data stacks: CDP, analytics, marketing automation, CRM, warehouse, pipelines, tag management, testingLead taxonomy design. Define events, properties, and naming before implementation, not afterSolve identity resolution across web, app, offline, and CRMWrite ecosystem docs that show where data moves and what breaks if it stopsHands-on buildBuild. This is not an advisory seat: you will be in the CDP, the warehouse, GTM, and the codeWrite and review tracking, server-side integrations, and reverse ETL pipelinesRun QA to our two-person standard. Check every property in both the CDP and the destination, with a recorded walkthroughDirecting the teamTurn client requirements into scoped, sequenced tasks for engineers and contract developersReview their work before it reaches a client. You are the quality gateUnblock people. When a build stalls, you get it movingKeeping delivery on trackRun the cadence: two-week sprints, a groomed backlog, and a roadmap with three or more months of planned workFlag budget pacing early. Never surprise a client on budgetThere are no free scope changes. Every change gets estimated, documented,
and confirmed in writing before work startsNew businessWrite technical specs for new opportunities. What gets built, in what order, and what it depends onProduce level of effort estimates accurate enough that Sales can price without a rebuildJoin pre-sales calls when a prospect needs a technical answer in the roomSay when a prospect is not ready, and what would make them readyRequiredSkills and experienceFully fluent in English. That is the company's working language6+ years designing and integrating marketing and customer data technology. At least 3 in an agency, consultancy, or professional services with multiple clientsUnderstand how CDPs drive marketing, with working knowledge of Segment, Hightouch, or RudderStack. No preference among them. Know one and you can learn the othersProficient in JavaScript and SQL. Comfortable in a shared repoDesigned at least three full stacks, not just operated tools someone else pickedGDPR and consent handled as part of the buildSystemsDepth in at least three groups, working familiarity with the rest:Customer data platforms: Segment, Hightouch, RudderStackAnalytics: Amplitude, Mixpanel, GA4Lifecycle and marketing automation: Braze, Customer.Io, HubSpot, Marketo, IterableWarehouse and transformation: Snowflake, BigQuery, dbtTag management: Google Tag Manager, server-side GTMCRM: Salesforce, HubSpotConsent management: OneTrust, Cookiebot, DidomiPreferredMultilingual with professional working proficiency in English as well as German, French, Spanish, or ItalianServer-side tracking under EU consent rulesWork across both European and North American clientsWhat you get out of thisMany stacks in a year instead of one stack in five. Different industries, scale, and failure modesThe customer data layer is changing right now. Warehouse-native patterns, composable CDPs, and reverse ETL are replacing a decade of assumptions. You build on the new patternWe work across the full client stack, not just individual systems or specific vendors. You see how it all fits together, which is where the hard problems are visibleBoth European and North American markets from one seatObservable indicatorsMonth 2Onboarded to every tool in your accounts' stacksTime tracked in Harvest weekly,
without remindersQA to the two-person standard on 100% of what you shipMonth 4Running technical delivery on two or more accounts independentlyEvery account has three or more months of planned roadmapZero undocumented scope changesMonth 6Labor efficiency ratio of 2.5 or better across your projects90% of client objectives hit within the project timelineClient approval for a case study or testimonial on at least one accountNew business specs and estimates accepted by Sales without rework 80% of the timeMonth 9Leading technical discovery without US support on the callOne expansion opportunity per quarter, surfaced with an estimate attachedWhat this role is notNot account leadership. You will not own the relationship, the renewal, or the P&LNot; a sales seat. You write specs and estimates and are paid a bonus on the result. You do not prospectNot people management. You direct technical work. No direct reports at hiring stageNot advisory. If you want to stop building, this is the wrong roleValuesNever Settle, Be Amazing. Fix it properly, not just enough to close the ticketGet Better Every Day. Ask for feedback and change what you do when you get itGive Context and Set the Stage. Nobody on your project is surprised by what you already knewLet the Data Create Transparency. Recommendations come with evidence. So does bad newsShow Hospitality to Build Trust. Clients and teammates get proactive, responsive treatmentPlus extreme ownership. Own outcomes, surface blockers early, and never hand a problem back to the person who gave it to you.BenefitsFlexible PTOFlexible hoursWork remotelyMonthly per diem for premium health, dental, and vision coverage if not already availableMaternity and paternity leaveRetirement contribution of 3% of salary annuallyCompany laptop, monitor, and remote setup equipmentFederal holidays off for US citizens, national holidays off for international contractorsRadically transparent workplaceRoom to act on your own ideasThe job in practiceMcGaw is a customer data and revenue operations consultancy. Clients come to us with traffic, tools, and data, and no system connecting them. We find where revenue leaks across acquisition, conversion, and retention, then we fix it with our hands on the keyboards.The CDP is the center of most of our work. We build on Segment, Hightouch, and RudderStack, chosen per client. We work across the full client stack, not just individual systems or specific vendors.Our clients are in North America and Europe. Your portfolio will be a mix.Month 1. Learn our clients, cadence, and tooling. Shadow live accounts. Run QA on other people's work to see our standard from the inside. Start owning tasks on one account.Months 2 and 3. Take technical ownership of your first accounts. Build the roadmaps. Run the sprints. You still have support on client calls.Months 4 to 6. Run delivery independently across accounts. Direct the resources assigned to you. Start writing specs for new business.#J-18808-Ljbffr
📌 Senior Solutions Architect, Emea (Madrid)
🏢 McGaw
📍 Madrid