Senior Technical Architect & Developer – Marketing Automation

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Geneva, CHE
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Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Security • Software
Sonar is the trust & verification layer for AI and agentic coding, and the industry standard for automated code review.
The Role
Lead the architecture and development of Sonar’s marketing technology infrastructure. Responsibilities include marketing data modeling, SQL and ETL pipelines, custom Salesforce Marketing Cloud scripting, API integrations, personalization, platform security, automation monitoring, deliverability, and privacy compliance. The role partners with Data, DevOps, and IT Security teams to maintain scalable, reliable marketing operations and adopt AI-driven marketing technologies.
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Who is Sonar?

Sonar enables organizations to ship agentic code with confidence. Code creation is abundant, but confidence is scarce. Our core platform, SonarQube, verifies over 750 billion lines of code every day, delivering agentic verification and governance for all code. Trusted by more than 7 million developers and 75% of the Fortune 100, including teams at Nvidia, ServiceNow, Booking.com, Goldman Sachs, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company, Sonar enables organizations to reduce outages, improve security, and lower the cost and risk of agentic software development.
Founded in Geneva and now headquartered in Austin, Texas, Sonar has a global team working across offices and hubs, including Silicon Valley, London, Bochum, Barcelona, Singapore, Tokyo, and the Washington, D.C. area. At Sonar, we’re enabling enterprises to build agentic software factories that can move quickly while maintaining the control, consistency and evidence required to ship with confidence. 


Position Description

We are seeking a deeply technical Marketing Technology Architect / Developer to lead the data architecture, custom code development, system integrations, and infrastructure scalability of our marketing engine.

Our day-to-day stack currently relies on Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) as our primary engine, and we are actively considering next-generation architecture like Marketing Cloud Next. However, for us, specific tool proficiency takes a backseat to a genuine passion for marketing technology, AI-driven marketing innovations, robust data architecture, and technical problem-solving.

We value your ability to analyze complex data models, integrate APIs, write clean code, and optimize high-throughput automation pipelines over specific certifications. If you are a platform-agnostic technologist passionate about marketing tech stack mechanics and AI marketing tools, this role provides the scope and autonomy to build world-class system infrastructure.

What you will do

    Data Architecture & Engineering
  • Operations Enablement: Prepare, clean, structure, and model all marketing data specifically so that Marketing Operations teams can seamlessly run campaigns, execute audience segmentations, and manage daily platform operations without technical friction.

  • Data Modeling: Design, build, and optimize scalable relational database structures, data extensions, custom data models, and subscriber key lifecycles tailored to Marketing Operational needs.

  • ETL & Data Pipelines: Collaborate with our Data Team to build high-performance automated SQL queries and ETL pipelines to ingest, clean, transform, and map large datasets from internal data warehouse (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery) into production-ready data extensions for the Ops team.

  • Governance & Hygiene: Maintain data hygiene, identity resolution, deduplication protocols, and real-time data sync across the Marketing tech ecosystem to safeguard operational efficiency.

  •  Technical Customization & Custom Development
  • Write clean, maintainable, and scalable custom platform code (e.g., AMPscript, Server-Side JavaScript / SSJS, WSProxy, or equivalent scripting/logic frameworks) to power complex personalization engines.

  • Develop custom dynamic rendering logic, interactive web forms, and landing pages with secure backend logic.

  • Troubleshoot complex automation failures, script exceptions, and high-volume data transformation bottlenecks.

  • API & Ecosystem Integrations
  • Architect, configure, and maintain robust API integrations (REST, SOAP, Webhooks) connecting our core product applications, mobile backends, and third-party systems to the marketing platform.

  • Configure native CRM and enterprise database connectors, ensuring bidirectional real-time data consistency and minimal latency.

  • Manage API rate limits, payload efficiency, OAuth authentication, and failure retry handlers across all integration touchpoints.

  • Platform Operations & System Health
  • Monitor automation runtimes, script performance, and query execution efficiency to maintain 99.9% operational uptime.

  • Lead platform security governance, business unit/partition structuring, user permissions, and global privacy compliance (GDPR, CCPA, CAN-SPAM).

  • Partner with DevOps and IT Security to oversee domain authentication (DKIM, SPF, DMARC), dedicated IP management, and deliverability infrastructure.

Experience and qualifications

    Core Technical Competencies
  • Advanced SQL & Database Design: Heavy hands-on experience structuring relational data models, writing complex joins, data aggregation, and query performance tuning.

  • Integrations & Protocols: Solid grasp of REST and SOAP APIs, JSON/XML payload construction, authentication standards (OAuth 2.0), webhooks, and API test tools (Postman).

  • Scripting & Code: Mastery of platform-specific scripting (AMPscript, SSJS) or strong proficiency in general languages like JavaScript, Node.js, or Python, with an eagerness to apply programming principles to marketing technology.

  • MarTech & AI System Curiosity: A deep, genuine passion for understanding how marketing systems work under the hood—from event-driven triggers and relational data mapping to agentic AI workflows, CDP data models, and automated personalization engines.

  •  Experience
  • 3+ years of hands-on technical architecture, system administration, or custom development inside Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) (Automation Studio, Journey Builder technical configurations, Contact Builder, CloudPages, API integrations, or early exposure to Marketing Cloud Next / Data Cloud / AI frameworks).

  • Demonstrated curiosity and practical understanding of how AI (Predictive AI, Generative AI, or Agentic AI frameworks) is transforming technical marketing execution.

  • Proven track record of evaluating, adopting, and mastering new marketing platforms and technical tools throughout your career.

  •  Key Personality Traits
  • Technology & AI Enthusiast: You actively follow developments in marketing technology, Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), AI-driven marketing automation, and modern data engineering practices.

  • Platform Agnostic: You view tools and AI models as vehicles to solve data and communication problems, not as rigid boundaries.

  • Problem Solver: You enjoy untangling complex data bugs, race conditions, integration failures, and AI logic edge-cases.

In-office culture

We're intentional about this. We believe the best teams are built in the room together. Three anchor days — Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays — create the collaboration rhythm that makes a hub office worth having. 

Candidates need to be genuinely based in the location the role is posted  — if that's not where you are today, we're happy to support relocation for the right person.


We value diversity, equity, and inclusion

At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

If you need any accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected]. 

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date. 

Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered. 

Skills Required

  • 3+ years of hands-on technical architecture, system administration, or custom development within Salesforce Marketing Cloud
  • Advanced SQL and relational database design experience, including complex joins, aggregation, and query performance tuning
  • Experience with REST and SOAP APIs, JSON/XML payloads, OAuth 2.0, webhooks, and API testing tools such as Postman
  • Proficiency with AMPscript and Server-Side JavaScript, or strong proficiency in JavaScript, Node.js, or Python
  • Experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud Automation Studio, Journey Builder, Contact Builder, CloudPages, and API integrations
  • Practical understanding of AI applications in technical marketing execution, including predictive, generative, or agentic AI
  • Experience evaluating, adopting, and mastering new marketing platforms and technical tools
  • Knowledge of marketing data modeling, CDPs, event-driven triggers, personalization engines, and automated marketing workflows

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The Company
HQ: Austin, TX
800 Employees
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

Sonar provides the essential verification layer for the AI-driven development era, ensuring all code—whether human-written or AI-generated—is code you can trust. Today, AI coding tools are generating explosive volumes of code. This has created an "engineering productivity paradox" : faster code writing doesn't automatically lead to faster, safer software delivery. The new bottleneck is verification. Sonar solves this. Integrating code quality and code security into a single platform (SonarQube), Sonar is the foundation for high performance software engineering, analyzing over 750 billion lines of code daily to ensure applications are secure, reliable, and maintainable. As an independent verification platform, Sonar enables organizations to securely develop at the speed of AI. We are driven by a deep belief in our people, a commitment to excellence, and an unwavering dedication to delivery. We operate as a united group where our collective success is the sum of each individual's contributions. Our company culture is driven by the values of CODE: Committed, Obsessed, Deliberate & Effective. This mindset reflects our culture of creativity, collaboration, and pride in the work we do. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 35 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by 7M+ developers worldwide, including ServiceNow, Booking.com, Deutsche Bank, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company. Sonar is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with additional offices in Austin, Texas; Bochum, Germany; London, Singapore, and Tokyo. The company is rapidly growing with over 800 employees! Join us in our mission to solve the trillion-dollar challenge of bad code!

Why Work With Us

We are a product-first company, with a people-first culture. Every employee has the opportunity to grow and learn. We promote from within, provide regular feedback and professional development opportunities, value the right to fail along with respect and kindness and work with team members to achieve their full potential.

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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

At Sonar, we require employees to come into the office 3 days/week.

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
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