AEM/AEP Architect

AEM/AEP Architect 
Seattle WA Onsite  - Local only

Role Summary

We are seeking a Solution Architect with deep expertise in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) to design and lead scalable, secure, and high performance digital experience solutions. This role focuses on custom code, API driven integrations, and enterprise architecture across content, data, and downstream systems. The architect partners closely with product, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into resilient technical designs and standards.

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Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

•            Design end to end solutions using AEM and AEP

•            Define reference architectures, technical standards, and best  practices across Adobe Experience Cloud

•            Lead architecture decisions for custom development, extensibility, and composable architectures

•            Ensure solutions meet performance, scalability, security, and compliance requirements

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

•            Architect and guide development of custom components, templates, workflows and services

•            Drive best practices for authoring, publishing, dispatcher/CDN caching, and performance optimization

•            Lead AEM upgrades, cloud migrations, and adoption of AEM as a Cloud Service and AEM Edge Delivery Services

Adobe Experience Platform (AEP)

•            Design XDM schemas, datasets, identities, and profiles

•            Architect real time and batch data ingestion pipelines

•            Enable personalization through RTCDP audiences, segmentation, and activation

•            Guide data governance, consent, identity resolution, and privacy controls

APIs & Integrations

•            Design API first and event driven architectures

•            Define integration patterns across AEM, AEP, Adobe Journey Optimizer, analytics tools, and enterprise platforms

•            Lead development of custom APIs, middleware, and integration services

•            Ensure integrations are secure, reliable, and observable

Leadership & Cross Team Collaboration

•            Able to come up-to-speed quickly on legacy approaches and create a current vs target state architecture.

•            Serve as a technical authority and mentor for engineering teams

•            Partner with business, UX, and product stakeholders on solution design

•            Review architecture, code quality, and implementation approaches

•            Support estimation, roadmaps, and architectural trade off decisions

•            Work closely with Enterprise Architecture, Security Architecture, MarTech engineering teams to drive the best approaches forward.