Forward Deployed Architect

The Team:You will be joining the newly formed Forward Deployment Engineering (FDE) team within Adobe’s Digital experience organization. As part of a key innovation initiative, our mandate is to bridge the gap between product engineering and real-world implementation. We are a team of world-class engineers dedicated to solving the most complex challenges for the world’s largest companies, ensuring they extract maximum value from the Adobe ecosystem.

The Opportunity:This is an opportunity to serve as aStrategic Technical Authorityandarchitectthe future of Adobe’s product capabilitiesfrom the front lines. You will not just integrate existing software; you will architect and build new, production-grade product features that solve the most complex challenges for global industry leaders. As a Forward Deployment Architect, you will treat customer environments as the ultimate proving ground,identifyinggaps in high-scale scenarios and engineering solutions that push the boundaries of what our platform can do. You will act as the vital link between real-world requirements and Core Engineering, ensuring that the innovations you build today become the foundational standards of the Adobe ecosystem tomorrow.

What You’ll Do:

• Architect and Define Solutions:Own the end-to-end technical vision for complex implementation projects, translating ambiguous customer requirements into scalable, secure, and high-performance system architectures.

• Drive Technical Governance:Establishand enforce design patterns, API specifications, and coding standards to ensure that solutions are not only functional but also maintainable and compliant with enterprise security policies.

• Lead Strategic Integration:Design robust integration strategies between Adobe Experience Cloud and diverse client technology stacks (legacy systems, cloud-native apps, and third-party data platforms), ensuring seamless data flow and interoperability.

• Champion Operational Excellence:Define the strategy for system observability, reliability, and high availability (HA/DR), guiding engineering teams to build “self-healing” and resilient production environments.

• Executive Technical Advisory:Lead high-stakes architectural workshops with client stakeholders (up to C-level) to align technical roadmaps with businessobjectivesand drive consensus on implementation strategies.

• Elevate Engineering Culture:Serve as a technical authority and mentor for the wider FDE team, conducting design reviews and fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and best practices.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration:Partner deeply with Product Management and Core Engineering to feedback field insights into the product roadmap, influencing the future design of Adobe’s platform capabilities.

• Hands-on Prototyping:While focused on architecture,maintaindeep technical acuity by building proof-of-concepts (POCs) for novel use cases to de-risk complex technical decisions before wider implementation.

What You Bring:

• 12+ yearsof technical experience, withat least 5 years in a Solution or Systems Architecture role, preferably designing large-scale SaaS or enterprise software solutions.

• Mastery of theJava/JVM ecosystemand modern Application frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot), with the ability to evaluate and select technology stacks based on long-term maintainability and performance trade-offs.

• DeepexpertiseinDistributed System Design, including microservices, Event-Driven Architectures (EDA), and complex API integration patterns (REST,GraphQL,gRPC).

• AdvancedproficiencyinData Architecture, capable of designing high-throughput persistence layers and defining data models across Relational, NoSQL, and Search platforms (e.g., Elasticsearch).

• Strong command ofCloud-Native principlesand container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) within major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

• Executive presence and communication skills:The ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value for C-level executives and non-technical stakeholders.

• A strategic mindset forSecurity and Compliance, ensuring architectures adhere to SOC2, GDPR, and enterprise-grade security standards from day one.

• Comfortable with 10%-25% travel to build relationships with customers

Desired Extras:

• Technical Thought Leadership:A history of public technical communication, including speaking at major industry conferences, publishing technical white papers, ormaintainingawidely-readengineering blog.

• Experience with the Adobe Ecosystem:Prior experience architecting solutions involving Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Adobe Analytics, or Adobe Experience Platform (AEP).

• Big Data & Streaming Architectures:proven ability to design real-time data ingestion andprocessingpipelines using technologies likeApache Kafka, Spark, Flink, or Databricks.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC):Proficiencyin defining infrastructure standards usingTerraform, Ansible, or Helm, enabling reproducible and scalable deployments.

• AdTech/MarTechDomain Knowledge:Familiarity with Digital Marketing concepts such as Real-Time Bidding (RTB), Customer Data Platforms (CDP), or personalization engines.

• Legacy Modernization:A track recordof successfully migrating monolithic legacy systems to microservices or cloud-native architectures (the “Strangler Fig” pattern).

• Open SourceLeadership:Active contributions to open-source projects or a history of speaking at technical conferences/meetups.