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
