Sr. Director, Enterprise Architect

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity   

The Sr. Director, Enterprise Architect will lead the Enterprise Architecture team to enable innovation and accelerate delivery from Adobe Technology Services (ATS). Within the ATS organization, the mission is to craft and implement robust, scalable, and flexible systems delivering strategic business objectives and innovation. This includes Marketing, Sales, Legal, Commerce, Finance, Customer Support, Analytics and Employee Experience applications.  

Adobe ATS exists to “Fuel the true potential of everyone to deliver outstanding experiences.” This includes:  

• Delivering Enterprise, Employee and Data services and solutions  

• Running end-to-end operations for resiliency, reliability, redundancy  

• Running ATS as a Business by being architecture driven and driving continuous improvement  

What you’ll do  

• Provide vision for establishing and running a CoE practice that spans across the technology spectrum of business capabilities and solutions.  

• Partner with team members to apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for assembling enterprise business capability and developing roadmaps that guide strategic enterprise initiatives in support of short, medium and long-term objectives  

• Deliver practical knowledge implementing AI/ML solutions, crafting scalable data architectures, and staying ahead of technology trends that impact business strategy.  

• Provide insight into impacts, constraints, risks and opportunities to support ATS' strategic planning process across Adobe  

• Collaborate to build and implement technical and architectural standards and governance across Adobe; provide technology direction, with a tight alignment between business & product strategy  

• Build actionable target and reference architectures for each step of the roadmap while adhering to enterprise principles, policies and standards.  

• Watch and guide software architecture processes, decisions, and related forums to identify, evaluate, prototype, and implement key technologies, leading to an integrated, scalable, and efficient architecture  

• Work with the solution architects across ATS to grow and maintain a comprehensive technical blueprint of the team's services, crafting solution options that align ATS services with business goals with consideration of technical and non-technical implications and trade-offs  

• In collaboration with the engineering leads, set and articulate the technical vision and direction for multiple application teams across ATS.  

• Conduct research and feasibility studies on new data technologies and make determinations on the probability and timing of implementation  

What you need to succeed  

• Consistent record in enterprise architecture, with experience operating<