Adobe DXP Architect

We’re looking for a highly technical Adobe DXP Architect to lead the design and delivery of enterprise digital experience platforms for large, complex organizations.

This is a hands-on, client-facing role for someone who is equally comfortable in a stakeholder workshop and in a technical design review. You’ll understand how the business operates, shape the target architecture across the Adobe Experience Cloud, and guide delivery teams through to a production-ready, scalable platform.

You’ll work on enterprise-scale transformation programmes with multiple workstreams, demanding stakeholders, and real accountability for outcomes. We want someone who brings a point of view, not just someone who executes a specification. You should have shaped solutions, defended architectural decisions, and seen them through go-live.

What You'll Do

❏ Lead discovery with business and technology stakeholders to understand objectives, current-state landscapes, and customer experience requirements.

❏ Define end-to-end target architectures across Adobe Experience Manager (Sites, Assets, Forms) and Adobe Experience Platform (RT-CDP, Journey Optimizer, Target, Analytics / CJA).

❏ Translate business and experience requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.

❏ Make and document key architectural decisions, including AEM as a Cloud Service vs. on-premise/AMS, headless vs. hybrid delivery, and data and identity strategy.

❏ Design integrations between Adobe products and enterprise platforms such as CRM, commerce, ERP, CDPs, identity providers, and data warehouses, using APIs, event-driven patterns, and middleware.

❏ Define data models, XDM schemas, identity resolution, and audience segmentation approaches that support personalization and journey orchestration.

❏ Provide technical leadership to development teams, including code and design reviews, development standards, CI/CD via Cloud Manager, and environment strategy.

❏ Ensure solutions meet performance, security, accessibility, and data privacy requirements, including regional data residency where applicable.

❏ Contribute to solutioning, estimation, and scoping of new phases and change requests.

❏ Prototype and validate approaches before full implementation to reduce delivery risk.

❏ Identify opportunities to use AI capabilities across the Adobe stack, such as AI Assistant, generative content, and predictive audiences, where they create real business value.

❏ Advise clients on platform roadmap, licensing implications, and adoption best practice.

❏ Produce high-quality architecture artefacts, including solution designs, integration specifications, and decision records.

❏ Collaborate with UX, data, marketing, and delivery leads throughout discovery, design, build, and optimization.

What You'll Bring

❏ 10+ years in digital or enterprise technology, including 6+ years architecting on the Adobe Experience Cloud.

❏ A track record of leading Adobe implementations end to end on large-scale, multi-workstream programmes.

❏ Experience in a consulting or systems integration environment, delivering for enterprise clients in a structured, client-facing delivery model.

❏ Deep hands-on AEM expertise, including Cloud Service, components and templates, Sling/OSGi, Dispatcher, content and DAM architecture, and headless delivery (GraphQL, Content Fragments).

❏ Strong working knowledge of AEP and its applications (RT-CDP, AJO, Target, Analytics / CJA), with practical experience in data ingestion, schemas, and identity.

❏ Solid integration and cloud architecture skills, including REST APIs, Adobe I/O / App Builder, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).

❏ The ability to communicate architecture clearly to senior business stakeholders and technical teams alike.

❏ Comfort working independently in a contract capacity and getting productive quickly within established client teams.

Good to Have

❏ Adobe certifications such as Adobe Certified Master or Expert (AEM Architect, AEP Architect).

❏ Experience in regulated or public-sector environments, such as financial services, government, or telecoms.

❏ Experience with Adobe Commerce or Workfront.

❏ GCC client experience and/or Arabic language skills.