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 support * Conduct architecture reviews, performance assessments, code-quality reviews, and technical risk assessments. * Guide teams in resolving architectural issues, performance bottlenecks, integration challenges, and platform constraints. * Ensure solutions comply with Adobe-recommended architecture, cloud-development practices, and enterprise governance standards.
TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP AND DELIVERY GOVERNANCE
* Lead technical discussions and architecture workshops with clients, business stakeholders, enterprise architects, and delivery teams. * Guide developers and technical leads throughout implementation, ensuring adherence to approved architecture and AEM engineering best practices. * Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, UX teams, QA teams, DevOps engineers, security teams, and enterprise architects. * Provide technical mentoring and support capability development within the AEM engineering team. * Review proof-of-concepts and validate their suitability for enterprise implementation. * Support solutioning, estimation, technical assessments, proposals, and pre-sales activities. * Clearly communicate architectural decisions, technical risks, dependencies, assumptions, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders. * Stay current with Adobe’s product roadmap, platform capabilities, reference architectures, and evolving industry practices.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
* 10+ years of experience in enterprise web content management, digital experience platforms, or related technology domains. * 5+ years of hands-on experience architecting and delivering solutions using Adobe Experience Manager. * 3+ years of experience in a Solution Architect or equivalent architecture role across enterprise-level AEM implementations. * Strong architecture and implementation experience with AEM Sites and AEM Assets. * Strong experience with AEM as a Cloud Service, including cloud-native development, deployment, operations, and migration considerations. * Strong understanding of different AEM delivery models, including: * Traditional AEM Sites * Headless and API-first AEM * Edge Delivery Services * Ability to assess business and technical requirements and recommend the most appropriate AEM delivery approach. * Strong knowledge of: * Java * Apache Sling * OSGi * JCR * Dispatcher and caching * AEM workflows * Templates and components * Content Fragments and Experience Fragments * REST and GraphQL APIs * Experience designing integrations between AEM, Adobe Experience Cloud solutions, and third-party enterprise platforms. * Strong understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, responsive design, and modern web development practices. * Experience with Adobe Cloud Manager, CI/CD pipelines, automated code-quality checks, and DevSecOps practices. * Understanding security, performance, scalability, availability, accessibility, observability, and operational support requirements. * Experience producing architecture blueprints, solution design documents, technical estimates, integration designs, and architecture decision records. * Proven ability to facilitate architecture workshops and present technical decisions to business, client, and engineering stakeholders. * Excellent communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and technical leadership skills.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
* Hands-on exposure to AEM Edge Delivery Services, including Universal Editor, document-based authoring, GitHub-based development, blocks, and modern front-end delivery practices. * Experience with AEM Forms, including: * Adaptive Forms * Form Data Models * Forms workflows * Backend and third-party integrations * Forms on Edge Delivery Services * Understanding Adobe Content Supply Chain architecture and operating models. * Experience integrating Adobe Workfront, AEM Assets, and Creative Cloud to support content-planning, creation, review, approval, asset management, and publishing workflows. * Experience with Workfront and AEM Assets integration areas such as metadata mapping, folder structures, permissions, asset workflows, approval processes, and governance. * Knowledge of Adobe Dynamic Media and asset transformation or delivery capabilities. * Experience with Adobe Target, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Campaign, or other Adobe Experience Cloud products. * Experience designing multi-site, multi-brand, multilingual, and global content-governance solutions. * Familiarity with commerce, CRM, PIM, DAM, identity, search, and marketing technology integrations. * Experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or other cloud platforms supporting the broader enterprise architecture. * Experience working in Agile delivery environments and supporting distributed or globally located teams. * Exposure technical discovery, platform assessments, modernization initiatives, and AEM migration program.
CERTIFICATION
* Adobe Certified Master – Adobe Experience Manager Sites Architect certification is strongly preferred. * Candidates with equivalent architecture experience across multiple enterprise AEM implementations may also be considered.
The certification may be treated as mandatory where required by a client engagement, contractual commitment, or Adobe partnership requirement
Location:
DGS India - Pune - Indiqube Orchid
Brand:
Merkle
Time Type:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanent