The Enterprise Architect leads architecture across Adobe solutions, ensuring alignment with business strategies and best practices for data, identity, and integration. Key responsibilities include designing architectures, governing standards, managing data models, and influencing stakeholders across various technical fields.
Position Overview
The Enterprise Architect is the senior technical authority responsible for designing, governing, and validating architecture across Adobe Experience Cloud solutions. This role ensures that data, identity, workflow, and integration models are aligned to business strategy and implemented according to best practices.
You will work across Adobe, Blue Acorn iCi, and client stakeholder teams to define scalable technical foundations that allow enterprises to maximize value from the Adobe platform. This role requires deep Experience Cloud expertise, strong communication skills, and the ability to translate business outcomes into enterprise-grade architecture.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Architecture Leadership
Platform Expertise
The Enterprise Architect is the senior technical authority responsible for designing, governing, and validating architecture across Adobe Experience Cloud solutions. This role ensures that data, identity, workflow, and integration models are aligned to business strategy and implemented according to best practices.
You will work across Adobe, Blue Acorn iCi, and client stakeholder teams to define scalable technical foundations that allow enterprises to maximize value from the Adobe platform. This role requires deep Experience Cloud expertise, strong communication skills, and the ability to translate business outcomes into enterprise-grade architecture.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Architecture Leadership
- Lead architecture across AEP, RTCDP, AJO, CJA, AEM Assets, and Marketo.
- Define and maintain enterprise-wide standards for data, identity, integrations, and governance.
- Create reference architectures and future-state blueprints that guide multi-solution Adobe programs.
- Ensure architectural decisions deliver measurable business value and platform scalability.
- Design XDM schemas, dataset structures, and taxonomies aligned to use cases.
- Define identity stitching frameworks, identity namespaces, and reconciliation logic.
- Ensure alignment between event, profile, and account-based datasets (B2C & emerging B2B).
- Validate mapping, ingestion, and governance models for accuracy and compliance.
- Architect APIs, workflows, and ingestion patterns for batch and streaming dataflows.
- Ensure full interoperability across AEP ↔ Marketo ↔ AEM ↔ Analytics.
- Evaluate integrations with CRM, ERP, experience platforms, data warehouses, and activation endpoints.
- Proactively identify bottlenecks and recommend architectural enhancements.
- Establish guardrails and enforce architectural best practices across delivery teams.
- Review solution designs for scalability, compliance, and alignment with Adobe standards.
- Monitor end-to-end dataflows and validate data quality, schema consistency, and identity precision.
- Provide escalation-level guidance for complex technical issues.
- Partner with Adobe and client leaders to communicate architectural decisions and tradeoffs.
- Influence stakeholders across engineering, data science, marketing operations, and product teams.
- Deliver clear documentation, architectural decks, and client-facing technical narratives.
- Serve as the technical authority across multiple delivery tracks.
Platform Expertise
- Adobe Experience Platform (AEP)
- Real-Time CDP (RTCDP)
- Adobe Journey Optimizer (AJO)
- Customer Journey Analytics (CJA)
- AEM Assets (for metadata and taxonomy integration)
- XDM schema modeling
- Identity stitching & identity graph management
- Data governance frameworks
- API / batch / streaming dataflows
- Multi-solution reference architecture design: AEP ↔ Marketo ↔ AEM ↔ Analytics
- Prior experience in enterprise-scale digital transformation programs
- Ability to lead complex stakeholder conversations and present technical strategy to executives
- Background in MarTech, AdTech, or enterprise data engineering
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) is a plus
Top Skills
Adobe Experience Platform
Adobe Journey Optimizer
Aem Assets
AWS
Azure
Customer Journey Analytics
GCP
Real-Time Cdp
Xdm
Blue Acorn iCi New York, New York, USA Office
261 Madison Ave, 8th Floor, New York, NY, United States, 10016
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