20+ years in technology, with 5+ years leading architects or senior technical staff globally.
Demonstrated ownership of performance reviews, career development, and compensation decisions.
Experience in agency, consultancy, or systems integrator roles, managing multiple concurrent clients.
Deep expertise in content management, data personalization, or work management areas of Adobe.
Hands-on experience using AI engineering tools and building AI-assisted workflows.
Responsibilities
Own the architectural quality for all Adobe engagements within the practice.
Run transformative architecture reviews and set standards that enhance their value.
Establish and maintain architecture standards and decision records across the practice.
Mentor a diverse team of architects across various specialties and ensure their professional growth.
Lead technical solutions for enterprise pursuits, encompassing estimation and scope definition.
Evaluate and integrate emerging AI capabilities within Adobe’s architecture.
Foster a culture of transparency and trust within the architectural team.
Benefits
Opportunities for career growth and mentorship.
Exposure to cutting-edge technologies, including AI and Adobe Cloud solutions.
Access to a knowledge-rich environment collaborating with top-tier professionals.
Involvement in high-impact client engagements and projects.
Flexible working arrangements and potential for remote work.
Full Job Description
This role leads the architecture pillar of the Adobe practice. You will be the senior architectural authority across every Adobe engagement we run, and the person our architects look to for technical direction, career growth and advocacy. You will also be the technical face of Code and Theory everywhere including Adobe - in front of their field teams, in front of their clients, and in the rooms where solutions get shaped before anyone writes a line of code.
This is not a role for someone who has stopped architecting. It is a leadership role for a practicing architect who wants to build and lead a team of them.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Own architectural quality across every Adobe engagement in the practice - content, data, work management and everything that connects them
Run architecture reviews that change outcomes rather than rubber-stamp them, and establish the cadence and standards that make them worth attending
Set and maintain architecture standards, reference architectures, decision records and reusable patterns across the practice
Act as the escalation point for the hardest design and integration problems, and step in personally when an engagement is architecturally off-track
Build the accelerator and asset library that makes each engagement faster than the last - migration tooling, discovery frameworks, estimation models, solution blueprints
Hire, grow and lead a distributed team of multi-solution architects spanning content, data and work management specialisms
Own performance management and career development decisions for your team - genuinely own them, with the context to advocate properly for the work your team is doing
Mentor architects across specializations other than your own, which means being credible enough to challenge a data architect on identity strategy and a content architect on Edge Delivery Services in the same week
Establish how architects work across concurrent engagements without becoming spread too thin
Build a culture where architects volunteer their boundaries, document their decisions, and are trusted to say no
Lead technical solutioning on enterprise pursuits - architecture narrative, effort estimation, staffing shape, scope definition and the technical story in the room
Partner with sales, client partners and Adobe alliance leads on deal strategy
Translate business problems into scalable Adobe architectures, and translate technical complexity into value propositions executives can act on
Build the estimation discipline that makes our commitments credible - and hold the practice to estimate-versus-actual accuracy
Establish agentic engineering as how this team works, not as an experiment running alongside it
Build agents, sub-agents and orchestrated workflows that accelerate discovery, solution documentation, estimation, code review and migration - and get architects using them
Evaluate and adopt emerging AI capabilities across the Adobe stack and beyond, and set the guardrails that make AI output safe to put in front of a client
Mentor architects on AI-native working, including the ones who are skeptical
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
20+ years in technology, including 5+ years leading architects or senior technical staff globally. (India, LATAM etc)
Demonstrated ownership of performance reviews, career development and compensation decisions - not mentoring alone
Experience in an agency, consultancy or systems integrator, carrying multiple concurrent clients
Experience delivering across US, India and LATAM specifically
Deep, hands-on architectural expertise in at least one of the following:
Content and experience - AEM Sites and Assets, AEMaaCS, Edge Delivery Services, Forms, EDS
Data and personalization - Adobe Experience Platform, Real-Time CDP, Customer Journey Analytics, Journey Optimizer, Analytics, Target
Work management and content supply chain - Workfront, Workfront Fusion, GenStudio, Firefly Services
Working architectural knowledge across all three areas of architectural expertise, sufficient to review a design, challenge a decision, and hold a client conversation
Experience with enterprise integration architecture (CRM, commerce, search, identity and SSO, analytics, data platforms)
Experience with modern architecture patterns (API-first, composable, headless versus hybrid, cloud-native, event-driven)
Still close enough to the work to earn respect from architects and engineers, not as the primary implementer, but the ability to read the code, diagnose the problem and defend the decision
Proven experience leading complex projects that include Data migration, customer journeys, CSC, legacy CMS to AEM, on-premise to AEMaaCS, and into Edge Delivery Services
Hands-on daily use of AI engineering tools like Claude, Cursor, or equivalent
Demonstrated experience building agents, sub-agents or orchestrated workflows, not only consuming AI tooling
Track record of establishing AI-assisted practice across a team, including bringing skeptics along
Judgment about where AI output needs a human in the loop, and the guardrails to enforce it
Pre-sales ownership including estimation, staffing models, scope definition, pricing input and presenting in the room
Executive stakeholder management, including the ability to hold a boardroom conversation and an architecture review in the same day
An understanding of utilization, margin and why an inaccurate estimate is an architectural failure as much as a commercial one
Experience with enterprise clients across US, EU and APAC
Own the technical relationship with Adobe's field, product and partner organizations
Represent us in Adobe's partner ecosystem: beta programs, Experience League, user groups, Summit, and the conversations that earn early access
Bring Adobe's roadmap back into the practice, and our field learning back to Adobe
Experience with commercial negotiations and contract development
Experience leading distributed teams across time zones, with genuine working relationships in offshore delivery centers rather than nominal ones
Comfort operating in a practice that is being built rather than one that is already running
Willingness to travel for client engagements, Adobe events and time with delivery teams
The compensation range for this role is $225,000 - $300,000 and spans multiple levels. We're open to hiring at the level that best matches the right candidate's experience. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, budget, and location.
