Systems DesignArchitecture Engineer

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobes all about. We give everyonefrom emerging artists to global brandseverything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! Were passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images videos and apps and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

Were 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!

The Opportunity

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 of AI powered business systems. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of technical innovation business strategy and operational excellence.
You will collaborate with product development engineering UX and business associates to outline and deploy scalable resilient and observable solutions that bolster our worldwide multi-product business.

The Challenge
Drive our innovation strategy and roadmap for addressing high priority opportunities.
Work with Product Engineering Digital Media Business Unit UX and others to deliver new innovative solution features.
Define solution performance targets and business impact metrics.
Partner with our internal customers to develop closed loop learning systems for continuous solution optimization.
Advocate for responsible AI practices and educate interested parties on emerging AI trends.

What is needed to succeed
10 years of experience in solution architecture or enterprise systems design or relevant working experience
Strong understanding of architecture design principles cloud-native patterns and business process optimization.
Demonstrated experience with business applications powered by AI and familiarity with:
o Knowledge graphs vector databases language models.
o AI integration patterns (RAG embeddings prompt engineering).
o Agentic AI protocols (MCP A2A OAP)
Strong cloud architecture literacy (Azure/AWS/GCP) and AI services (Azure OpenAI AWS Bedrock Vertex AI).
Familiarity with enterprise SaaS platforms (Salesforce MS Dynamics SAP Gainsight).
Excellent visual and written communication; comfortable presenting solution technology strategies to VP
Preferred

Core Architecture & Innovation

• Lead architecture design across initiatives to ensure scalability performance and resilience.

• Build and validate proofofconcepts with customers.

• Contribute to Architecture Review Boards and maintain architecture documentation.

Business Applications Architecture Leadership

• Architect and optimize enterprise applications across marketing sales customer success and support.

• Integrate advanced capabilitiespredictive analytics generative AI conversational tools automationto elevate engagement revenue and efficiency.

• Uphold compliance and responsible AI practices aligned with global privacy and governance standards.

Multi-functional Collaboration

• Translate business objectives into scalable technical solutions.

• Partner with product engineering and UX to deliver innovative features.

• Champion adoption of emerging technologies and architectural improvements.

Success Metrics

• Delivery of scalable resilient architectures aligned to business outcomes.

• Prioritized AI use cases and updated architecture standards for AI components.

• Coordinated solution architectures across marketing sales and customer success with measurable ARR and efficiency gains.

At Adobe for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC base commission) and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

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

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