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