Senior Director, Enterprise Platforms (US)

Overview

Senior Director leading the architecture pillar of Code and Theory's Adobe practice, serving as the senior architectural authority across all Adobe engagements and leading a distributed team of multi-solution architects.

What you'll do

• Own architectural quality across every Adobe engagement in the practice, spanning content, data, work management and the connections between them
• Run architecture reviews that change outcomes rather than rubber-stamp them, and establish the cadence and standards that make them worth attending
• Set and maintain architecture standards, reference architectures, decision records and reusable patterns across the practice
• Act as the escalation point for the hardest design and integration problems, and step in personally when an engagement is architecturally off-track
• Build the accelerator and asset library that makes each engagement faster than the last, including migration tooling, discovery frameworks, estimation models and solution blueprints
• Hire, grow and lead a distributed team of multi-solution architects spanning content, data and work management specialisms
• Own performance management and career development decisions for your team, with the context to advocate for the work your team is doing
• Mentor architects across specializations other than your own
• Establish how architects work across concurrent engagements without becoming spread too thin
• Build a culture where architects volunteer their boundaries, document their decisions, and are trusted to say no
• Lead technical solutioning on enterprise pursuits, including architecture narrative, effort estimation, staffing shape, scope definition and the technical story in the room
• Partner with sales, client partners and Adobe alliance leads on deal strategy
• Translate business problems into scalable Adobe architectures, and translate technical complexity into value propositions executives can act on
• Build the estimation discipline that makes commitments credible, and hold the practice to estimate-versus-actual accuracy
• Establish agentic engineering as how this team works, including building agents, sub-agents and orchestrated workflows that accelerate discovery, solution documentation, estimation, code review and migration
• Evaluate and adopt emerging AI capabilities across the Adobe stack and beyond, and set guardrails that make AI output safe to put in front of a client
• Mentor architects on AI-native working, including those who are skeptical

What you'll need

• 20+ years in technology, including 5+ years leading architects or senior technical staff globally (India, LATAM etc)
• Demonstrated ownership of performance reviews, career development and compensation decisions, not mentoring alone
• Experience in an agency, consultancy or systems integrator, carrying multiple concurrent clients
• Experience delivering across US, India and LATAM specifically
• Deep, hands-on architectural expertise in at least one of: Content and experience (AEM Sites and Assets, AEMaaCS, Edge Delivery Services, Forms); Data and personalization (Adobe Experience Platform, Real-Time CDP, Customer Journey Analytics, Journey Optimizer, Analytics, Target); Work management and content supply chain (Workfront, Workfront Fusion, GenStudio, Firefly Services)
• Working architectural knowledge across all three areas of architectural expertise, sufficient to review a design, challenge a decision, and hold a client conversation
• Experience with enterprise integration architecture (CRM, commerce, search, identity and SSO, analytics, data platforms)
• Experience with modern architecture patterns (API-first, composable, headless versus hybrid, cloud-native, event-driven)
• Still close enough to the work to earn respect from architects and engineers, with the ability to read code, diagnose problems and defend 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 such as Claude, Cursor, or equivalent
• Demonstrated experience building agents, sub-agents or orchestrated workflows, not only consuming AI tooling
• Track record of establishing AI-assisted practice across a team, including bringing skeptics along
• Judgment about where AI output needs a human in the loop, and the guardrails to enforce it
• Pre-sales ownership including estimation, staffing models, scope definition, pricing input and presenting in the room
• Executive stakeholder management, including holding a boardroom conversation and an architecture review in the same day
• An understanding of utilization, margin and why an inaccurate estimate is an architectural failure as much as a commercial one
• Experience with enterprise clients across US, EU and APAC
• Ownership of the technical relationship with Adobe's field, product and partner organizations
• Representation in Adobe's partner ecosystem, including beta programs, Experience League, user groups, Summit, and the conversations that earn early access
• Ability to bring Adobe's roadmap back into the practice and field learning back to Adobe
• Experience with commercial negotiations and contract development
• Experience leading distributed teams across time zones, with genuine working relationships in offshore delivery centers
• Comfort operating in a practice that is being built rather than one that is already running
• Willingness to travel for client engagements, Adobe events and time with delivery teams

Nice to have

Not specified in the source.

Details

• Location: New York, New York, United States; Remote
• Compensation range: $225,000 - $300,000, spanning multiple levels, depending on skill set, experience, budget and location