Data & Analytics Platform Architect

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Position Summary

Data has become a strategic asset of Adobe fueling all aspects of business decision-making. This individual contributor position within the EDA Data & Analytics Platform team will provide solutions interacting with data and powering insights needed to realize business objectives. This role will also perform technical planning, end-to-end architecture development and design specifications for distributed cloud analytics environments. Provides technical leadership and established direction for the application architecture, standards, design and implementation in a distributed cloud environment in Azure and/or AWS.

As a Cloud Architect, you will design engaging Data Platform experiences. An ideal candidate can lead design discussions and implement applications independently with a panache towards building experiences for analytics customers. You will bring your experience in architecting and handling data-intensive applications. The winning candidate for this high-impact role must demonstrate deep knowledge of data architecture concepts, and possess experience solving customer problems building elite experiences around data analytics. 

At Adobe, you will be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognized throughout the world on Best Companies lists! We're fun, hard-working engineers who are capable of giving and receiving technical mentorship. You will also be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow through our outstanding Check-In approach where ongoing feedback flows freely!

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Adobe is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.

Your core responsibilities will be

• Architect & implement comprehensive & scalable analytics solutions to drive data driven insights
• Architect & develop generative AI based analytics applications 
• Identify innovative applications for AI & ML in the data & analytics space.
• Build scalable solutions in public and private Cloud Platforms to run on containerized and distributed systems
• Collaborate with other architects, product management and other engineering teams and contribute across planning, modeling, design, implementation, support, and performance optimization of Adobe data platforms and microservices
• Understand distributed computing architecture principles and articulates value proposition of architecture to business and technology partners. 
• Demonstrate deep subject matter leadership of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability). 
• Design large-scale cloud architectures and understand relevant cloud services, with deep understanding of consumption-based usage to identify appropriate resource configurations to use. 
• Develop current and target state architecture, future vision and migration path that is aligned with broader executive strategies.
• Implement custom technology solutions where vendor solutions may not be available, and customize existing vendor solutions where appropriate. 
• Apply infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques to design migration of data and workloads between on-premise and cloud based distributed computing environments. 
• Demonstrate mastery of cloud architecture and implementation features (multi-tenancy, orchestration, elastic scalability, serverless designs, networking, security, and observability). 
• Recommend and participate in governance practices of the IT organization as they relate to Cloud implementation. 
• Ensures decisions around architecture are made in alignment with defined strategies and deviations from standards are accurately identified, addressed, and communicated. 
• Ensure that sta