Job Description:
We are looking for an experienced Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Solution Architect to lead the architecture, design, and delivery of enterprise-grade digital experience solutions.
The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise across AEM Sites, AEM Assets, AEM as a Cloud Service , and modern experience-delivery approaches, including Edge Delivery Services, headless/API-first architectures, and traditional AEM implementations .
This is a strategic and client-facing role requiring strong architectural capability, hands-on technical understanding, stakeholder management, and the ability to guide cross-functional teams throughout the solution lifecycle. The architect will evaluate business, content, integration, and non-functional requirements and recommend the most appropriate AEM architecture and delivery model.
Key Responsibilities
Solution Architecture and Design
Lead the end-to-end architecture and design of scalable, secure, maintainable, and high-performing solutions across AEM Sites, AEM Assets , and related Adobe Experience Cloud capabilities.
Evaluate business, authoring, content-management, and experience-delivery requirements to recommend the appropriate architecture across: AEM Edge Delivery Services
Headless/API-first AEM
Traditional AEM Sites implementations
Translate business and functional requirements into robust solution architectures, technical designs, and implementation of roadmaps.
Define architecture principles, reusable patterns, technical standards, and best practices for enterprise AEM implementations.
Own the creation and review of architecture blueprints, solution design documents, architecture decision records, integration designs, deployment models, and technical estimates.
AEM and Content Architecture
Define content architecture and governance across: Editable templates and components
Content Fragments and Experience Fragments
Content models and taxonomies
Metadata schemas and asset structures
Workflows, permissions, and approval processes
Multi-site, multi-brand, multilingual, and localization requirements
Recommend scalable authoring and content-reuse approaches aligned with business and content-operating models.
Design solutions that support efficient content authoring, publishing, reuse, governance, and omnichannel delivery.
Provide architectural guidance for AEM Sites, AEM Assets, Dynamic Media, headless content delivery, and related platform capabilities.
Integration Architecture
Define secure and scalable integration patterns between AEM and Adobe Experience Cloud or third-party enterprise platforms.
Architect integrations with platforms such as: Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target
Adobe Workfront and Creative Cloud
CRM, commerce, PIM, DAM, search, identity, and marketing platforms
REST APIs, GraphQL APIs, event-driven services, and middleware platforms
Establish standards for API design, authentication, data exchange, error handling, observability, and integration governance.
Review integration designs to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and performance requirements.
Content Supply Chain and Workfront
Provide architectural guidance for Adobe Content Supply Chain solutions connecting content planning, creation, review, approval, asset management, and publishing.
Define integration patterns between Adobe Workfront, AEM Assets, Creative Cloud , and related workflow or collaboration platforms.
Support the design of metadata mappings, folder structures, asset workflows, approval processes, permissions, and governance models.
Identify opportunities to streamline content operations, improve asset reuse, strengthen governance, and reduce content-production cycle time.
Non-Functional Architecture
Define non-functional requirements and architecture across: Performance and scalability
Security and data protection
Availability and resilience
Accessibility
Caching and content delivery
Monitoring, logging, and observability
Maintainability and operational…