Job Summary
The Senior AEM Architect defines and delivers scalable digital marketing and customer experience solutions with deep expertise in Adobe Experience Cloud. The role provides hands-on architecture leadership across Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Adobe Experience Platform (AEP), Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target, Adobe Campaign, Adobe Journey Optimizer, and related capabilities to enable connected, personalized, and measurable customer experiences. The architect bridges digital marketing strategy and technical execution by establishing the target architecture for a modern MarTech ecosystem that connects content, customer data, analytics, experimentation, personalization, and campaign activation while ensuring security, privacy, performance, interoperability, and long-term sustainability.
Key Responsibilities
• Design end-to-end Adobe Experience Cloud and digital marketing architectures aligned with marketing objectives, customer journeys, and enterprise technology standards.
• Lead solution architecture and implementation across Adobe Experience Cloud, with a deep focus on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and strong knowledge of AEP, Analytics, Target, Campaign, and/or Adobe Journey Optimizer.
• Architect the content and experience layer in AEM, including reusable components, templates, content models, workflows, Digital Asset Management (DAM), and integration with design systems.
• Architect traditional, headless, and composable AEM solutions integrated with modern front-end technologies and downstream marketing channels.
• Define scalable integration patterns connecting Adobe platforms with CRM, consent and privacy systems, customer data platforms, commerce platforms, data platforms, and other enterprise systems using APIs, events, microservices, and cloud services.
• Collaborate with Digital Marketing, campaign operations, product, UX, data, privacy, and engineering teams from strategy and journey design through implementation and ongoing optimization.
• Provide technical leadership and hands-on guidance to Adobe implementation teams by conducting architecture reviews, driving design decisions, defining implementation standards, and mentoring team members.
• Ensure Adobe and broader MarTech solutions meet requirements for performance, scalability, security, privacy, consent, accessibility, reliability, and operational support.
• Drive Adobe engineering best practices, including AEM as a Cloud Service, CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native design, observability, automated testing, tagging and data-layer standards, and release governance.
• Define and maintain the end-to-end architecture and roadmap for digital marketing capabilities across content management, customer data, analytics, experimentation, personalization, and omnichannel activation.
• Collaborate with implementation partners and system integrators to deliver Adobe and MarTech solutions within Agile and DevOps environments.
• Support the development and governance of reusable architectural patterns, integration standards, and reference implementations for Adobe Experience Cloud solutions.
• Shape MarTech strategy and architecture, including customer data and Customer 360, identity and audience activation, consent and privacy, analytics, tagging and data layers, integrations, and APIs.
Required Qualifications
• 10+ years of IT experience, with significant experience in solution architecture for digital marketing, MarTech, customer experience, or enterprise web platforms.
• Proven architecture and implementation experience with Adobe Experience Cloud.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), including AEM as a Cloud Service, Sites, Assets/DAM, component and template architecture, content modeling, workflows, and integrations.
• Hands-on experience designing integrations between Adobe platforms and enterprise systems using APIs, microservices, event-driven patterns, and cloud services.
• Strong knowledge of Adobe Experience Platform (AEP), Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target, Adobe Campaign, and/or Adobe Journey Optimizer.
• Knowledge of modern front-end frameworks and headless or composable experience patterns, such as React.
• Strong understanding of MarTech architecture, customer data, identity, audience activation, consent and privacy, analytics, tagging, data layers, and API integrations.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to influence marketing, MarTech, engineering, UX, data, privacy, and business teams.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to lead solution architecture and provide hands-on technical guidance in Agile and DevOps environments.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with major cloud platforms for hosting and integrating digital and MarTech solutions.
• Adobe certifications in AEM, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target, Adobe Campaign, Adobe Journey Optimizer, or related Adobe Experience Cloud solutions.
• Experience with Adobe Edge Network, Web SDK, Tags, identity, audience, consent, and data collection patterns.
• Experience with headless CMS, composable architectures, and design systems such as Storybook.
• Integration experience with platforms such as Salesforce, SAP, Veeva, CRM/CDP platforms, consent management solutions, or enterprise data platforms.
• Experience delivering Adobe and MarTech solutions in collaboration with implementation partners or system integrators.
• Background in designing omnichannel activation capabilities across web, mobile, and other digital channels.
• Familiarity with observability practices and tools for monitoring performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Experience working in hybrid work models and collaborating with distributed teams.
Work Environment
The role is based in North Chicago, Illinois, with a hybrid work arrangement requiring onsite presence approximately 4 days per week. The work environment focuses on digital and MarTech solutions leveraging Adobe Experience Cloud, including AEM as a Cloud Service, AEP, Analytics, Target, Campaign/Journey Optimizer, and related tools. The organization follows Agile and DevOps practices, with CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native architectures, observability tooling, automated testing, and structured release governance. Collaboration with digital marketing, product, UX, data, privacy, and engineering teams is central to the role, alongside frequent interaction with implementation partners and system integrators. The contract-to-hire engagement is measured in months and combines onsite collaboration with remote work flexibility.
