One North is a full-service digital agency helping businesses solve complex problems in creative ways. We’re makers, technologists, and relationship builders guiding our clients and our people toward what’s next. Unlike traditional agencies, we stitch together a deep level of expertise across disciplines so that we can do the work of multiple teams. With capabilities in brand and communications, digital experience, technology and infrastructure, and optimization and insights, we can take on any challenge. We deliver the human element to digital so that your big ideas come to life. One North is a TEKsystems company.

Position Overview

Bring your technical expertise, passion, and curiosity to a creative and energetic team that strives to define and redefine the technology of digital experiences. The Technical Strategy Lead works collaboratively across disciplines to bring to life highly polished, innovative, and transformative digital solutions for some of the world’s largest brands.

The Technology Strategy discipline works alongside other Strategy disciplines (CX, UX, Brand, Content, and Data) as well as our Design and Development teams, to bring new technical capabilities to the innovation process, identifying technical dependencies as plans and designs are formed, assessing client readiness for transformative efforts, and guiding efforts through the initial stages of implementation.

This role requires the ability to coordinate across multiple disciplines to successfully leverage the capabilities of Adobe’s marketing suite. Successful candidates will have already architected or led enterprise-level teams implementing or enhancing AEM environments.

Do you enjoy solving business problems through technology solutions? Does uncovering and understanding how technology ecosystems work within complex organizations attract your attention? The Technical Strategy Lead role is for curious and pragmatic individuals that desire to improve and enhance technology ecosystems and provide consultative support across all client engagements.

Responsibilities

Technology Strategy capabilities:

• Research, understand, and validate technologies across multiple verticals
• Consult, advise, and recommend adjustments to ecosystems to better align with business needs
• Devise and build prototypes or proof-of-concepts to provide deeper guidance for implementation teams
• Work with other strategists and across teams to provide cohesive visions and unified approaches
• Work directly with clients and stakeholders while projecting empathy and understanding

Additional responsibilities:

• Represent One North internally and throughout the community in thought leadership (conferences, talks, blogs, libraries/tools)
• Participate in the sales and business development process, including creation of content for proposals and pitches, as well as serving as an advisor for prospective clients

Skills & Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science or comparable training (required)
• Consulting, agency, or advisory experience
• Expertise in full life cycle implementation experience
• Minimum 3 years of experience leading or architecting successful implementations on Adobe’s digital marketing suite
• Multi-year experience leading or architecting highly integrated, enterprise grade applications such as custom app development, CMS development, and/or ERP/CRM systems. Focus on Adobe’s suite is preferred.
• Experience in browser-based application design and development
• Experience and/or working knowledge of innovation methodologies such as design thinking, human-centered design, agile transformation, etc.
• Exceptional time management, written, and verbal communication skills
• Experience leading or managing a team of 3 or more developers and/or technologists
• Ability to travel (under normal, safe conditions) up to 15% of time

Technical skills:

• While this role will not require any code delivery, qualified candidates will have experience in past roles earlier in their career as architects, lead engineers, or engineer managers
• Experience with enterprise platforms across multiple modern front-end and back-end frameworks, including complex integrations with business systems is desired