AEM Solution Architect

Looking for a technical leader with 15+ years of experience and 4+ years as a solution Architect with excellent communication as this role will be reporting to Europe team.

This is for contractual role for 1 year and extendable with Hybrid role in Bangalore.

Mandatory Skills :

- Adobe Experience Manager

- Software development governance including solution design

- Coding practices

- Testing

- CI/CD

- Release management, observability, performance, and operational readiness.

Optional Skills :

- Adobe Experience suite including Adobe Experience Platform

- RT-CDP, Website Development & OneTrust consent management.

Roles & Responsibilities :

As an Adobe Experience Manager Architect, you will :

- Design and evolve scalable, secure, and resilient solutions across the ExtWeb and Adobe Experience Cloud ecosystem, ensuring alignment with business requirements, enterprise architecture principles, and the ExtWeb technology roadmap.

- Lead technical architecture and solution-design discussions with business stakeholders, System Management, Enterprise Architects, vendors, and development teams for new capabilities, migrations, integrations, and platform modernization initiatives.

- Provide technical leadership and subject-matter expertise across Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and relevant Adobe Experience Cloud capabilities, defining architectural patterns, standards, and development best practices.

- Define and govern ExtWeb software development standards, including solution design, coding practices, testing, CI/CD, release management, observability, performance, and operational readiness.

- Ensure solutions meet enterprise requirements for security, compliance, scalability, availability, maintainability, and performance, proactively identifying technical risks and driving remediation.

- Own and guide the technical integration of ExtWeb with Adobe Experience Cloud, enterprise platforms, APIs, identity solutions, analytics, consent management, and other internal/external systems.

- Partner closely with System Management, Product Owners, development teams, and vendors to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions and ensure architectural standards are consistently applied.

- Drive technical assessments, architecture reviews, impact assessments, and technology recommendations for enhancements, migrations, upgrades, and platform changes.

- Proactively identify technical debt, duplicate or obsolete solutions, platform risks, and optimization opportunities, and establish roadmaps for remediation and continuous improvement.

- Support the stability and operational excellence of ExtWeb, including root-cause analysis of complex technical issues and implementation of preventive measures to reduce recurring incidents.

- Provide technical oversight of Adobe/vendor partners and development teams, challenging proposed solutions where necessary and ensuring quality, value realization, and adherence to ExtWeb standards.

- Maintain current knowledge of Adobe Experience Cloud capabilities, product roadmaps, security developments, architectural patterns, and industry trends, and assess their relevance and potential value for ExtWeb.

Qualifications :

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.

- A Master's degree is an advantage.

- 15+ years of overall technology experience, including significant experience in enterprise web platforms and at least 4 years in AEM solution architecture or technical leadership roles.

- Proven experience as an AEM Architect, Adobe Experience Cloud Architect, Technical Architect, or similar role, with strong knowledge of Adobe Experience Manager and enterprise web solutions.

- Deep understanding of AEM architecture, including Sites, Assets, components, templates, workflows, content models, caching, publishing, and deployment patterns.

- Experience with AEM as a Cloud Service and modern Adobe Experience Cloud architecture and integration patterns.

- Good understanding of the broader Adobe Experience Cloud ecosystem, including integration with platforms such as Adobe Analytics, Adobe Experience Platform (AEP), Customer Journey Analytics (CJA), Journey Optimizer, and Real-Time CDP.

- Strong understanding of web technologies, APIs, web services, authentication/authorization, and enterprise integration patterns.

- Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing, release management, monitoring/observability, and modern software development practices.

- Strong understanding of web security and secure software development principles, including vulnerability management and security-by-design practices.

- Experience defining and governing technical standards, architecture principles, development guidelines, and solution design patterns across multiple development teams and vendors.

- Demonstrated ability to conduct architecture reviews, technical assessments, impact analysis, root-cause analysis, and technical risk assessments.

- Experience working with Agile/DevOps delivery models and collaborating across Product, Engineering, Operations, Security, Architecture, and business teams.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder-management, and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical topics into clear recommendations for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Ability to provide technical leadership and influence without direct authority, effectively challenging solutions and driving alignment across internal teams and external partners.

- Ability to work effectively both independently and in a global, cross-functional and multi-vendor environment.

- Adobe certification in AEM or relevant Adobe Experience Cloud technologies is preferred.