Role: AEM Technical Architect

Location: Remote – US
Duration: 12 Months

Role Overview:

Seeking a Senior AEM Technical Architect to design and deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance Adobe Experience Cloud solutions. The role involves enterprise architecture, technical governance, digital marketing strategy, platform integrations, modernization, and client advisory.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end AEM architecture, implementation, integration, and modernization projects.

• Engage C-level executives, VPs, and business stakeholders to align technology solutions with business objectives.

• Conduct discovery workshops, gather requirements, define solution roadmaps, and document functional and non-functional requirements.

• Design digital marketing technology architectures supporting content strategy, omnichannel experiences, personalization, and customer journeys.

• Guide onshore, offshore, and nearshore teams through architecture reviews, development standards, and delivery governance.

• Integrate AEM with Adobe Experience Cloud services, CRM, e-commerce platforms, enterprise portals, and analytics solutions.

• Optimize platform performance, scalability, security, availability, and reliability.

• Lead legacy CMS content migrations and cloud transformation initiatives.

• Define UI/UX architecture, customer behavior analytics, and data-driven experience optimization strategies.

• Support presales, client presentations, solution demonstrations, proposals, and technical negotiations.

• Develop reusable architecture patterns, best practices, technical documentation, templates, and implementation methodologies.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.

• 15+ years of overall IT experience and 7–10 years working with Adobe Marketing Cloud / Adobe Experience Cloud.

• Extensive experience with AEM 6.x (on-premises and Adobe Managed Services) and AEM as a Cloud Service.

• Proven leadership of multiple end-to-end Adobe Experience Cloud implementations.

• Strong knowledge of AEM templates, components, workflows, MSM, I18N, tagging, translation, search, and content management.

• Proficiency in Java/J2EE, OOP, design patterns, Spring/Struts, Apache Sling, and JCR/CRX.

• Experience defining technical architectures, functional requirements, NFRs, UML diagrams, and enterprise solution designs.

• Strong understanding of AEM security, authentication, authorization, SSO, and enterprise identity integration.

• Experience with performance tuning, scalability, content migration, and integrations with CRM, e-commerce, analytics, and portals.

• Knowledge of Adobe Experience Cloud services, omnichannel marketing, personalization, customer analytics, and digital experience optimization.

• Ability to present technical solutions to clients and collaborate effectively with executive stakeholders and distributed teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) – Architect certification.

• Experience in enterprise architecture, presales, sales support, client consulting, and digital marketing strategy.

• Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, conflict-resolution, and stakeholder-management skills.

• Ability to develop technical roadmaps, architecture standards, reusable frameworks, and modernization strategies.