Adobe DXP Architect

About the Role
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.

What 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.
• GCC client experience and/or Arabic language skills.