Principal Digital Architect – Adobe Experience Manager

The Principal Digital Architect – Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) is responsible for defining, designing, and governing enterprise-scale content management and digital experience architectures with Adobe Experience Manager as the core platform.

This role provides hands-on architectural leadership to translate business, brand, and customer experience strategies into scalable, secure, and extensible AEM-based solutions, aligned with Cat Digital and enterprise architecture standards.

The role acts as the AEM technical authority and trusted advisor across Marketing, IT, Engineering, Data, and Security teams—ensuring successful adoption, integration, performance, and value realization of AEM within the broader Adobe Experience Cloud ecosystem.

Assess current-state content, web, and digital experience ecosystems and define future-state AEM-centric architectures aligned with business objectives and omnichannel experience strategies.

Develop AEM solution architectures, reference patterns, and content delivery roadmaps (Sites, Assets, Headless, Edge Delivery Services).

Define architecture approaches for multi-site, multi-brand, multi-region implementations.

Ensure AEM architectures meet enterprise standards for scalability, performance, security, compliance, and operational readiness.

Drive architectural decisions through trade-off analysis and Architectural Decision Records (ADRs).

Lead architecture and solution design across Adobe Experience Manager, including:

AEM Sites (authoring, templating, components)

AEM Assets (DAM, Dynamic Media, renditions, workflows)

Headless AEM (Content Fragments, GraphQL, APIs)

Edge Delivery Services / Headless Delivery patterns

AEM Authoring, Publishing, Dispatcher/CDN architectures

AEM cloud-native deployments (AEM as a Cloud Service)

AEM Guides (documentation and structured content)

Define and enforce Adobe-recommended architecture patterns, cloud service best practices, and extensibility models.

Provide architectural guidance on component design, content modeling, caching, performance optimization, and authoring governance.

Partner with delivery teams to reduce technical risk, rework, and long-term maintenance costs.

Architect integrations between AEM and Adobe Experience Platform, including:

Adobe Experience Platform (AEP)

Real-Time Customer Data Platform (RT-CDP)

Adobe Target, Analytics, and Customer Journey Analytics

Adobe Journey Optimizer, Campaign, and Marketo Engage

Define personalization and activation patterns using AEM + AEP + Target.

Design event-driven and API-based integrations between AEM and enterprise systems (commerce, CRM, identity, product data).

Define content, customer, and experience data models aligned across AEM and AEP.

Architect secure integration patterns using REST APIs, events, messaging, CDN, and cloud-native services.

Ensure identity, consent, and privacy-by-design principles are embedded into AEM-driven experiences.

Drive data quality, lineage, and compliance considerations in all architecture designs.

Provide architectural leadership across global, multi-vendor delivery teams.

Define and enforce AEM architecture standards, guardrails, and governance models.

Review solution designs for performance, scalability, authoring usability, security, and operational excellence.

Actively identify architectural risks and recommend mitigation strategies across delivery lifecycle.

Partner with Marketing, Brand, IT, Data, Security, and Engineering leaders to align AEM capabilities with business and CX outcomes.

Translate complex AEM and MarTech architectures into clear, value-focused narratives for executive and non-technical stakeholders.

Support executive decision-making through concise architecture artifacts, options analysis, and recommendations.

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Enterprise solution and platform architecture experience

Architecture governance, standards definition, and design reviews

Requirements decomposition and solution structuring

Trade-off analysis (cost, scalability, extensibility, time-to-value)

Influencing and leading without authority across functions

Deep hands-on AEM architecture experience (Sites, Assets, Headless)

AEM Cloud Service architecture and deployment models

Author–Publish–Dispatcher/CDN architecture patterns

Component design, content modeling, templates, workflows

Performance optimization, caching strategies, scalability patterns

AEM extensibility (OSGi, Sling Models, APIs, integrations)

REST APIs and event-driven integration patterns

Cloud-native architectures (AWS or equivalent)

Security, identity, and privacy-by-design principles

Experience working with large-scale, global AEM implementations

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Typically 14–16 years of experience in enterprise digital architecture or large-scale platform design.

Demonstrated experience architecting AEM-led enterprise digital experience platforms.

Experience working with global, multi-region delivery teams.

Provides deep expert-level architectural leadership within the AEM and digital experience domain.

Owns complex architectural problem-solving from strategy through execution.

Leads evaluation and adoption of new AEM and digital experience capabilities.

Influences platform direction and delivery outcomes through technical credibility and clarity.