Adobe DXP Architect

We're looking for a highly technical Adobe DXP Architect to lead the design and delivery of enterprise digital experience platforms for large, complex organizations.This is a hands-on, client-facing role for someone who is equally comfortable in a stakeholder workshop and in a technical design review. You'll understand how the business operates, shape the target architecture across the Adobe Experience Cloud, and guide delivery teams through to a production-ready, scalable platform.You'll work on enterprise-scale transformation programmes with multiple workstreams, demanding stakeholders, and real accountability for outcomes. We want someone who brings a point of view, not just someone who executes a specification. You should have shaped solutions, defended architectural decisions, and seen them through go-live.What You'll Do❏ Lead discovery with business and technology stakeholders to understand objectives, current-state landscapes, and customer experience requirements.❏ Define end-to-end target architectures across Adobe Experience Manager (Sites, Assets, Forms) and Adobe Experience Platform (RT-CDP, Journey Optimizer, Target, Analytics / CJA).❏ Translate business and experience requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.❏ Make and document key architectural decisions, including AEM as a Cloud Service vs. on-premise/AMS, headless vs. hybrid delivery, and data and identity strategy.❏ Design integrations between Adobe products and enterprise platforms such as CRM, commerce, ERP, CDPs, identity providers, and data warehouses, using APIs, event-driven patterns, and middleware.❏ Define data models, XDM schemas, identity resolution, and audience segmentation approaches that support personalization and journey orchestration.❏ Provide technical leadership to development teams, including code and design reviews, development standards, CI/CD via Cloud Manager, and environment strategy.❏ Ensure solutions meet performance, security, accessibility, and data privacy requirements, including regional data residency where applicable.❏ Contribute to solutioning, estimation, and scoping of new phases and change requests.❏ Prototype and validate approaches before full implementation to reduce delivery risk.❏ Identify opportunities to use AI capabilities across the Adobe stack, such as AI Assistant, generative content, and predictive audiences, where they create real business value.❏ Advise clients on platform roadmap, licensing implications, and adoption best practice.❏ Produce high-quality architecture artefacts, including solution designs, integration specifications, and decision records.❏ Collaborate with UX, data, marketing, and delivery leads throughout discovery, design, build, and optimization.RequirementsWhat You'll Bring ❏ 10+ years in digital or enterprise technology, including 6+ years architecting on the Adobe Experience Cloud.❏ A track record of leading Adobe implementations end to end on large-scale, multi-workstream programmes.❏ Experience in a consulting or systems integration environment, delivering for enterprise clients in a structured, client-facing delivery model.❏ Deep hands-on AEM expertise, including Cloud Service, components and templates, Sling/OSGi, Dispatcher, content and DAM architecture, and headless delivery (GraphQL, Content Fragments).❏ Strong working knowledge of AEP and its applications (RT-CDP, AJO, Target, Analytics / CJA), with practical experience in data ingestion, schemas, and identity.❏ Solid integration and cloud architecture skills, including REST APIs, Adobe I/O / App Builder, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).❏ The ability to communicate architecture clearly to senior business stakeholders and technical teams alike.❏ Comfort working independently in a contract capacity and getting productive quickly within established client teams.Good to Have❏ Adobe certifications such as Adobe Certified Master or Expert (AEM Architect, AEP Architect).❏ Experience in regulated or public-sector environments, such as financial services, government, or telecoms.❏ Experience with Adobe Commerce or Workfront.