Sr. Adobe (AEM) Solutions Architect

We are seeking a Senior Adobe (AEM) Solutions Architect for a contract role (6+ months) based remotely in the United States. This position focuses on designing and delivering enterprise Adobe Experience Manager solutions at scale, with emphasis on cloud-native architecture, complex migrations, and multi-site governance.

Responsibilities

• Architect Adobe Experience Manager solutions, including AEM Sites, Assets/DAM, and AEM as a Cloud Service deployments
• Lead enterprise migrations from legacy CMS platforms, Sitecore, agency-managed systems, or multi-CMS environments into AEM, owning the architecture strategy end-to-end
• Design shared component libraries, editable template strategies, and governance frameworks for multi-site and multi-brand implementations with controlled variation across brands, regions, locales, and properties
• Enforce architecture quality standards by reducing custom code, recommending upgrade-safe patterns, defining non-functional requirements, and making build-versus-reuse decisions
• Establish cloud delivery practices using AEM Cloud Manager, CI/CD pipelines, Git, Maven, and automated testing
• Configure dispatcher, CDN caching, environment strategies, observability, and security protocols for production deployments
• Design and oversee enterprise integrations involving commerce, identity/loyalty, analytics, consent/privacy, search, CRM, DAM, and third-party services
• Provide architecture guidance and production support during and after implementation

Qualifications

• Required

• 5+ years of hands-on experience architecting AEM solutions

• Recent, demonstrated experience with Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service

• Deep technical knowledge of AEM Sites, Assets/DAM, Core Components, editable templates, workflows, Sling, OSGi, JCR, HTL, Java, and REST APIs

• Ownership of at least one complex enterprise migration into AEM (from Sitecore, legacy CMS, agency-managed platforms, or multiple CMSs), with proven architectural leadership - not solely development involvement

• Experience designing multi-site and multi-brand solutions with component and template strategies that govern brand, region, locale, or property variation

• Proficiency with AEM Cloud Manager, CI/CD practices, Git, Maven, automated testing, dispatcher configuration, and CDN/caching strategies

• Ability to define and enforce architecture quality, establish non-functional requirements, and reduce technical debt through upgrade-safe design patterns

• Experience designing and implementing enterprise API integrations and third-party service connections

• Preferred

• Multi-Site Manager (MSM), localization, translation, and rollout governance experience

• Background with booking, commerce, identity, loyalty, analytics, consent/privacy, search, CRM, or DAM integration projects

• Expertise in observability, security hardening, and production support for AEM Cloud environments