AEM Technical Architect

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