Sr. Systems Design/Architecture Engineer

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyone-from emerging artists to global brands-everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We're passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We're on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

We are seeking a seasoned Systems Design/Architect to join our Business Architecture team, with a dual focus: delivering enterprise-grade systems architecture and leading the design and optimization of Adobe Experience Platform (AEP). This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of technical innovation, business strategy, and operational excellence.

You will need to work effectively with key collaborators to define and implement scalable, resilient, and observable solutions that support our global, multi-product business.

What you'll Do

• Deliver requirements analysis, study market trends, and formulate informed recommendations.
• Define innovation strategy and roadmap for addressing high priority opportunities.
• Identify and Prioritize good bets for technology investment.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Digital Media Business Unit, UX, and others to deliver new innovative solution features.
• Drive architectural design for multiple initiatives.

What you need to succeed

Required

• 10+ years of experience in solution architecture or enterprise systems design.
• Solid grasp of architecture design principles, cloud-native patterns, and business process optimization.
• Hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Platform, including Real-Time CDP, Journey Optimizer, and Customer Journey Analytics.
• Familiarity with observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, ELK) and workflow orchestration (e.g., Airflow, Azure Data Factory).
• Experience with SQL, NoSQL, and data management concepts.
• Superb communication and customer engagement skills.

Preferred

• Experience and proven success in a global, multi-brand enterprise with both B2C and B2B customer models.
• Proficiency in data mesh, design focusing on domains, and federated data governance.
• Adobe certifications (e.g., AEP Architect or Developer).
• Familiarity with multiple cloud providers and enterprise SaaS platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

Core Architecture & Innovation

• Conduct industry and technology research to identify trends and innovative practices.
• Define and evolve target architectures, sometimes in collaboration with enterprise architects.
• Deliver effective design ensuring scalability, performance, and resilience.
• Develop proof-of-concept solutions and validate them with collaborators.
• Participate in Architecture Review Boards (ARBs) and maintain architecture documentation.

Leadership

• Design and optimize AEP architecture to support real-time customer data ingestion, identity resolution, segmentation, and activation.
• Implement observability across AEP workflows: monitoring, alerting, logging, and self-healing mechanisms.
• Ensure compliance with global data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) using Adobe Privacy Service and data usage labels.
• Translate business goals into scalable technical solutions.

Multi-functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with business, marketing, data engineering, and analytics teams to ensure AEP meets evolving business and data needs.
• Partner with product managers, engineers, and UX designers to deliver innovative features.
• Advocate for adoption of new technologies and architectural improvements across teams.

Success Metrics:

• Delivery of scalable and resilient architecture aligned with business goals.
• Operational excellence in AEP workflows (e.g., uptime, data freshness, segment accuracy).
• Adoption of AEP and efficient architectural practices across business units.
• Measurable improvements in customer engagement and data-driven decision-making.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $163,200 -- $311,000 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

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In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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