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About the Role
This role leads the architecture pillar of the Adobe practice, serving as the senior architectural authority and technical guide for architects. You will be the technical representative for Code and Theory externally, engaging with Adobe teams and clients to shape solutions before development begins. This is a leadership position for a practicing architect focused on building and leading a team.
Responsibilities
- Own architectural quality across all Adobe engagements, including content, data, and work management.
- Conduct architecture reviews to drive impactful outcomes and establish practice standards.
- Set and maintain architecture standards, reference architectures, decision records, and reusable patterns.
- Act as the escalation point for complex design and integration challenges, intervening when engagements are architecturally off-track.
- Develop accelerators and asset libraries, such as migration tooling and estimation models, to improve engagement efficiency.
- Hire, grow, and lead a distributed team of multi-solution architects.
- Own performance management and career development for the team, advocating for their work.
- Mentor architects across various specializations, demonstrating broad technical credibility.
- Establish effective cross-engagement collaboration strategies for architects.
- Foster a culture of boundary setting, decision documentation, and constructive refusal among architects.
- Lead technical solutioning for enterprise pursuits, including architecture narrative, estimation, and scope definition.
- Partner with sales, client partners, and Adobe alliance leads on deal strategy.
- Translate business problems into scalable Adobe architectures and technical complexity into executive value propositions.
- Build and enforce an estimation discipline to ensure credible commitments and track estimate-versus-actual accuracy.
- Establish and integrate agentic engineering practices within the team.
- Build and deploy agents, sub-agents, and orchestrated workflows to accelerate various project phases.
- Evaluate and adopt emerging AI capabilities, setting guardrails for safe client-facing output.
- Mentor architects on AI-native working, including those who are skeptical.
- Own the technical relationship with Adobe's field, product, and partner organizations.
- Represent Code and Theory within Adobe's partner ecosystem.
- Integrate Adobe's roadmap into the practice and share field learnings with Adobe.
- Engage in commercial negotiations and contract development.
- Lead distributed teams across time zones, fostering genuine working relationships.
- Operate effectively within a developing practice.
- Travel for client engagements, Adobe events, and team interactions.
Requirements
- 20+ years in technology, with 5+ years leading architects or senior technical staff globally.
- Demonstrated ownership of performance reviews, career development, and compensation decisions.
- Experience in an agency, consultancy, or systems integrator with multiple concurrent clients.
- Experience delivering projects across the US, India, and LATAM.
- Deep, hands-on architectural expertise in at least one of: Content and experience (AEM Sites and Assets, AEMaaCS, Edge Delivery Services, Forms, EDS), Data and personalization (Adobe Experience Platform, Real-Time CDP, Customer Journey Analytics, Journey Optimizer, Analytics, Target), or Work management and content supply chain (Workfront, Workfront Fusion, GenStudio, Firefly Services).
- Working architectural knowledge across all three areas of expertise.
- Experience with enterprise integration architecture (CRM, commerce, search, identity and SSO, analytics, data platforms).
- Experience with modern architecture patterns (API-first, composable, headless vs. hybrid, cloud-native, event-driven).
- Ability to read code, diagnose problems, and defend architectural decisions.
- Proven experience leading complex projects including Data migration, customer journeys, CSC, legacy CMS to AEM, on-premise to AEMaaCS, and into Edge Delivery Services.
- Hands-on daily use of AI engineering tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor).
- Demonstrated experience building agents, sub-agents, or orchestrated workflows.
- Track record of establishing AI-assisted practices across a team, including skeptics.
- Judgment regarding AI output and the ability to enforce human-in-the-loop guardrails.
- Pre-sales ownership including estimation, staffing models, scope definition, pricing input, and client presentations.
- Executive stakeholder management skills.
- Understanding of utilization, margin, and the impact of inaccurate estimates.
- Experience with enterprise clients across US, EU, and APAC.
- Experience with commercial negotiations and contract development.
- Experience leading distributed teams across time zones.
- Comfort operating in a practice that is being built.
- Willingness to travel.
Skills
- Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Sites and Assets
- AEM as a Service (AEMaaCS)
- Edge Delivery Services
- Adobe Forms
- Adobe Experience Platform (AEP)
- Real-Time Customer Data Platform (CDP)
- Customer Journey Analytics
- Journey Optimizer
- Adobe Analytics
- Adobe Target
- Adobe Workfront
- Workfront Fusion
- GenStudio
- Firefly Services
- Enterprise integration architecture
- API-first architecture
- Composable architecture
- Headless architecture
- Hybrid architecture
- Cloud-native architecture
- Event-driven architecture
- Data migration
- Customer journey mapping
- Content supply chain (CSC)
- AI engineering tools (Claude, Cursor)
- Agent development
- Workflow orchestration
- Pre-sales
- Estimation
- Staffing models
- Scope definition
- Executive stakeholder management
- Commercial negotiations
- Contract development
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Lead
Salary/Compensations
- $225,000 - $300,000
About the Company
- Code and Theory is a digital-first creative and technology agency founded in 2001, specializing in building products, platforms, and experiences for global brands by integrating engineering, design, data, and strategy.
- The agency tackles complex digital challenges for a diverse client roster, including Fortune 100 companies and startups across various industries.
- Code and Theory operates a global network of agencies, including Kettle, Instrument, Left Field Labs, Create Group, Current, and TrueLogic, with teams distributed across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
- The network comprises nearly 2,000 professionals, with a balanced mix of engineers and creative talent.
- The company values collaboration with clients such as Adidas, Amazon, Con Edison, Diageo, EY, J.P. Morgan Chase, Lenovo, Marriott, Mars, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, and TikTok.
- Code and Theory seeks smart, driven, and forward-thinking individuals to join their growing team.