CRM Technology Manager (Braze Specialist)

Job Title: CRM Technology Manager (Braze Specialist)

Client Location: London (Hybrid)

Starting: 26/05/2026

Minimum Pay (per year): 60000.00

Maximum Pay (per year): 70000.00

Hours: Full-time

Duration: Permanent

Job Description:

CRM Technology Manager (Braze Specialist)

Role Purpose

  • We’re looking for a hands-on CRM Technology Manager (Braze Specialist) to own and optimise our global CRM infrastructure.
  • With migration to Braze largely complete, this role moves into full technical ownership — ensuring our CRM ecosystem is stable, scalable, compliant, and capable of supporting multi-channel growth.
  • You will architect, integrate, monitor, and continuously improve our CRM platform and vendor ecosystem — working closely with CRM, Data Engineering, andProduct Engineering teams.
  • This is a deep operator role. You will build, debug, and take root-cause ownership— not just advise.

Reporting & Team Context

  • You’ll be part of a close-knit Martech team supporting CRM and Performance Marketing capability.
  • Senior CRM Managers will rely on you to unlock Braze’s full potential.
  • Data Engineering partners with you on CRM data models and optimisation.
  • Native and Web Engineering teams work with you to integrate CRM into product and app channels.
  • A Marketing Technology Support Specialist provides 1st-line support; you provide 2nd-line technical expertise and are protected to focus on strategic platform improvements.
  • There is no direct line management, but you will be a technical authority in this space.

Key Responsibilities

  • Platform Ownership
  • Act as the technical owner of Braze and the wider CRM vendor ecosystem
  • Braze, SparkPost/ESP, Branch, Validity, Hightouch, Databricks).
  • Ensure the platform is stable, scalable, and architected for long-term growth.
  • Define and maintain scalable event taxonomies, naming conventions, and governance standards.
  • Build and maintain documentation, integration specs, and playbooks that scale globally.
  • Ensure strong deliverability practices across email and push (SPF, DKIM,DMARC, IP warming, token management, throttling).
  • Identify and mitigate systemic CRM platform risks before they impact commercial performance.
  • Provide second-line escalation support for complex CRM technical issues.

Data & Integration Architecture

  • Partner with Data Engineering to define and optimise the CRM data model.
  • Validate and debug data flows end-to-end (app → warehouse → Braze →campaign output).
  • Define and maintain clear data contracts between Engineering and CRM.
  • Oversee SDK integrations and API-triggered messaging across web and nativeapp environments.
  • Ensure identity resolution, consent handling, and schema alignment are robustand future-proof.

Advanced Braze Build & Optimisation

  • Design and optimise complex Canvas journeys across markets.
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  • Build scalable, reusable HTML/CSS/Liquid templates.
  • Leverage advanced Braze capabilities including Webhooks, Connected Content, Catalogs, API-triggered campaigns, and personalisation logic.
  • Champion best practice segmentation, targeting, and performanceoptimisation.
  • Support experimentation frameworks in partnership with CRM and Data.

Channel Expansion

  • Architect and operationalise new CRM channels (e.g. WhatsApp, SMS, in-app)end-to-end, including consent model design, SDK/API integration, eventschema definition, and performance measurement frameworks.
  • Scope architecture, integration requirements, consent models, and testingframeworks.
  • Build playbooks to ensure repeatable, high-quality rollout across markets.

Martech Roadmap & Capability Growth

  • Identify opportunities to improve our Martech ecosystem and platform usage.
  • Evaluate new Braze features and emerging capabilities pragmatically.
  • Contribute to shaping a best-in-breed Martech stack that supports CRM andPerformance Marketing teams.

Success in the First 6 Months

  • Finalise and stabilise the UK migration to Braze.
  • Expand CRM beyond predominantly email and push into at least one newchannel (e.g. WhatsApp, SMS, in-app), with strong architecture andgovernance.
  • Improve platform reliability, documentation, and QA standards.
  • Help demonstrate clear ROI from improved Braze utilisation.
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  • Build trust with Senior CRM Managers as the go-to technical expert.
  • Establish a clear view of “what next” in Martech capability.

Skills & Experience

Essential

  • Deep, hands-on experience administering Braze (or comparable CEP),including advanced Canvas builds and complex Liquid logic.
  • Strong technical capability across
  • SDKs, APIs, SQL, data modelling, and ETLpipelines
  • Experience debugging data issues end-to-end across product, warehouse,and CRM platforms.
  • Experience defining and maintaining scalable event taxonomies and CRM data schemas
  • Hands-on experience integrating CRM into native app and web environments,including push (APNs/FCM) and in-app messaging.
  • Experience launching or operationalising new CRM channels (SMS,WhatsApp, in-app).
  • Strong understanding of email and push deliverability best practice
  • Ability to build scalable, reusable templates using HTML, CSS, and Liquid
  • Experience implementing governance, QA frameworks, and permissionmodels within CRM platforms.
  • Comfortable working cross-functionally with CRM, Data Engineering, andProduct Engineering.
  • Strong documentation and communication skills.
  • Experience working in regulated or PII-heavy environments.

Desirable

  • Experience completing or stabilising a multi-market CRM platform migration.
  • Familiarity with warehouse-native CRM setups (e.g. Databricks + Reverse ETLtools).
  • Exposure to AI-enabled marketing capabilities.
  • Experience working in global or multi-market environments.
  • Fintech or regulated industry experience.

Job Details

Company
Aquent
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Hybrid / Remote Options
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