Principal Digital Architect – Adobe Experience Platform

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Principal Digital Architect Adobe Experience Platform

Role Definition

The Principal Digital Architect Adobe Experience Platform is responsible for defining designing and governing enterprisescale digital marketing and customer experience architectures built on Adobe Experience Cloud. This role provides handson architectural leadership to translate business and marketing objectives into scalable secure and futureready digital solutions aligned with Cat Digital and enterprise architecture standards.

The role serves as a technical authority and trusted advisor across Marketing IT Data Security and Engineering teams ensuring successful adoption integration and value realization of Adobes enterprise platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Strategy & Target Design

• Assess currentstate marketing and digital ecosystems and define futurestate architectures aligned with business objectives and customer experience strategies.
• Develop solution architectures reference designs and digital engagement roadmaps leveraging Adobe Experience Cloud.
• Ensure architectural decisions align with enterprise standards scalability security compliance and operational readiness.
• Contribute to platformlevel architecture direction through tradeoff analysis and architectural decision records (ADRs).

Adobe Experience Cloud Architecture Leadership

• Lead architecture and solution design across Adobe Experience Cloud including:
  • Adobe Experience Platform (AEP)
  • RealTime Customer Data Platform (RTCDP)
  • Adobe Journey Optimizer Adobe Campaign and Marketo Engage
  • Adobe Analytics and Customer Journey Analytics
  • Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
  • Adobe Target and personalization solutions
  • Adobe Workfront
  • Adobe Firefly
  • AEM Guides
• Ensure solutions follow Adoberecommended implementation patterns best practices and extensibility models.
• Guide delivery teams on platform capabilities constraints and integration patterns to reduce rework and technical risk.

Data Identity & Integration Architecture

• Design enterprise data models schemas identity frameworks and governance approaches aligned with customer data and privacy standards.
• Architect batch and realtime data ingestion activation and synchronization patterns across Adobe and enterprise platforms.
• Define and review integration architectures using REST APIs eventdriven patterns cloud storage structured and unstructured data sources and security controls.
• Ensure data quality lineage and compliance considerations are built into architectural designs.

Architecture Governance & Delivery Enablement

• Provide architectural leadership to crossfunctional and multiregion delivery teams ensuring alignment to target architecture.
• Define and enforce architecture standards guardrails and governance models for Adobe platform implementations.
• Review solution designs for scalability performance data quality security and compliance.
• Identify architecture and delivery risks and recommend remediation strategies to maintain scope schedule and quality.

Stakeholder & Executive Engagement

• Partner with Marketing IT Data Security and Engineering stakeholders to align technology solutions with business and customer experience outcomes.
• Translate complex technical architectures into clear valuefocused narratives for both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Support executive decisionmaking through concise architecture artifacts and tradeoff analyses.

Critical Skills & Knowledge (SkillsBased Alignment)

Architecture & Functional Skills

• Enterprise solution and platform architecture
• Requirements decomposition and solution structuring
• Tradeoff analysis (cost scalability extensibility timetovalue)
• Architecture governance and decision documentation
• Crossfunctional stakeholder alignment

Technical Skills

• Handson experience with Adobe Experience Cloud architectures
• Strong understanding of endtoend marketing technology ecosystems (CDP marketing automation journey orchestration personalization analytics content management)
• REST APIs cloud architectures and integration patterns
• Data security identity and privacybydesign principles
• Experience supporting largescale global implementations

Domain Expertise (Preferred)

• Enterprise digital marketing and customer experience platforms
• Customer data platforms and identity resolution
• Personalization and analytics ecosystems
• Content management and experience delivery platforms

Education & Experience

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Typically 1416 years of experience in digital architecture enterprise platforms or largescale solution design.
• Demonstrated experience architecting or implementing enterprisescale digital marketing ecosystems.
• Experience working with global or multiregion delivery teams.

Level Expectations (Principal)

• Provides expertlevel architectural leadership within a defined platform or domain.
• Develops detailed architecture deliverables to solve complex business problems.
• Leads evaluation and adoption of new technologies to enhance digital capabilities.

Influences without authority through technical credibility and clarity of communication

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