Sr. Tech Lead – Experimentation/Personalization & Marketing Cloud

The Vanguard Group•Charlotte, PA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Sr. Tech Lead is the senior technical lead for experimentation and personalization on Vanguard’s public site, with Adobe Target as the primary area of expertise. The role designs, builds, tests, and supports Target-driven A/B tests, personalization experiences, and front-end implementations, while establishing standards for quality, governance, reusable patterns, and reliable delivery. This position combines hands-on Adobe Target development, front-end engineering, technical leadership, and delivery ownership. The Lead Adobe Target Developer partners with product, business, analytics, design, AEM, MarTech, and development teams to translate experimentation goals into scalable, measurable implementations. The role supports faster test delivery, stronger QA, consistent coding standards, team mentoring, and improved personalization outcomes. Familiarity or experience with other Adobe Experience Cloud products, such as AEP, AJO, AEM, and Adobe Analytics, is preferred.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in information technology, computer science, digital technology, design, or equivalent experience.
Strong hands-on Adobe Target experience, including A/B testing, multivariate testing, experience targeting, personalization, audience setup, profile scripts, parameters, QA, debugging, and activity lifecycle management.
Strong front-end development experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, responsive design, accessibility, browser developer tools, cross-browser testing, and web performance practices.
Experience implementing Target activities using custom code, reusable scripts, front-end components, QA utilities, and integration patterns with analytics or measurement tools.
Working knowledge of Git-based development, branching, pull requests, code review, deployment workflows, and release readiness practices.
Ability to assess implementation options, troubleshoot technical issues, manage dependencies, and recommend practical, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
Strong communication and leadership skills, including the ability to influence decisions, align cross-functional partners, and explain technical concepts to product, business, analytics, design, development, and leadership partners.
Experience managing stakeholder relationships, driving alignment across cross-functional teams, and communicating status, risks, decisions, and recommendations to leadership audiences.
Experience mentoring developers, leading technical discussions, creating documentation, and supporting standards or governance for experimentation and personalization delivery.
Experience using LLMs as a complementary resource for development, troubleshooting, documentation, and efficiency opportunities.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity or experience with at least one other Adobe Experience Cloud product, such as AEP, CJA, AJO, AEM, Adobe Analytics, or CDP/IDR capabilities.
Adobe Target Certified Professional, Adobe Target Business Practitioner, or equivalent Adobe Target certification.
Experience connecting experimentation and personalization use cases across audience strategy, activation, content delivery, measurement, optimization, and customer journey orchestration.
Experience in enterprise digital marketing, financial services, regulated environments, or large-scale personalization and experimentation programs.
Experience developing reusable patterns, technical documentation, onboarding materials, standards, or governance practices for experimentation and personalization teams.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end Adobe Target implementation for A/B tests, experience targeting, personalization, recommendations, multivariate tests, and other Target-driven experiences.
Build and maintain front-end code for Target activities using JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, responsive design, accessibility standards, and cross-browser development practices.
Configure and support Adobe Target activities, audiences, profile scripts, mbox or parameter usage, QA links, activity prioritization, targeting rules, and delivery safeguards.
Partner with product, design, analytics, AEM, MarTech, and business teams to translate experimentation goals into technically sound, measurable implementations.
Provide technical leadership by guiding implementation decisions, aligning teams on standards, resolving ambiguity, and influencing a practical path from idea to delivery.
Manage stakeholder expectations by proactively communicating delivery tradeoffs, technical risks, dependencies, timelines, and implementation options.
Facilitate alignment across product, business, analytics, design, AEM, MarTech, and engineering partners for prioritization, intake planning, launch readiness, and post-test learnings.
Define and enforce standards for code quality, QA, accessibility, performance, version control, release readiness, documentation, and experimentation governance.
Troubleshoot activity delivery, audience qualification, front-end behavior, analytics integration, browser issues, and production defects related to Target implementations.
Create reusable scripts, patterns, utilities, documentation, and technical guidance to improve experimentation speed, consistency, and operational reliability.
Mentor developers and business technologists on Adobe Target implementation practices, front-end development standards, QA methods, and technical problem solving.