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