Job Description

We're seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to lead presales solutioning and oversee delivery for enterprise digital experience platforms, API ecosystems, and AI-enabled applications. You will advise senior stakeholders, craft pragmatic architectures, and guide teams across the full stack to deliver scalable, secure, and business-aligned outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

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Strategic Advisory

Partner with senior client stakeholders to shape digital and AI roadmaps. Translate business goals into executable architectures, phasing, and adoption plans.

Solution Architecture & Delivery

Own end-to-end architecture for CMS/DXP (AEM first), API platforms, and AI-powered solutions. Define reference architectures, integration patterns, SLAs/SLOs, NFRs (scalability, security, performance, resilience). Lead solution handover and provide oversight through discovery, build, test, and go-live.

AI-Powered Innovation

Identify high-value AI/ML use cases (e.g., content intelligence, personalization, assistants/agents). Integrate AI services, vectors, and guardrails into CMS/API workflows with measurable outcomes.

Presales & Proposal Development

Co-lead opportunity shaping with business units; run discovery, estimations, and solution workshops. Produce solution narratives, diagrams, BOMs/TCOs, and risk/assumption logs to increase win rates. Contribute thought leadership, accelerators, and reusable assets.

Mandatory Skills (Must-Have)

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Adobe Experience Manager (AEM):

architecture, headless/hybrid, content models, dispatcher/CDN, security.

API Management:

design & governance, security (OAuth2/OIDC/JWT), traffic mgmt, analytics; exposure to

Tyk

(preferred) and familiarity with

Kong/Apigee

or similar.

Cloud Solutioning:

hands-on architecture on

AWS / Azure / GCP

(landing zones, networking, IAM, observability).

Applied AI:

practical integration of AI services/agents (prompt flows, orchestration, evaluation, safety).

Preferred Skills (Good-to-Have)

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Magnolia CMS

implementation/architecture. API developer portals & analytics, productization, monetization models. AI agent development (tooling, retrieval, evaluation), vector databases, content enrichment workflows. Containers/K8s, CI/CD, Infra-as-Code (Terraform), observability (logs/metrics/traces). Security & compliance (OWASP, CIS, MAS TRM/IM8 concepts). Performance engineering and cost optimization.

Technical Breadth

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Frontend:

modern JS frameworks (React/Vue/Next), design systems, accessibility.

Backend:

Java/.NET/Node.js microservices, integration patterns (event-driven, REST/GraphQL).

Data/Integration:

messaging (Kafka), ETL/ELT basics for experience/data stitching.

Experience & Qualifications

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8-12+ years in software/solution engineering, with 4+ years in architecture or principal engineering roles. Proven presales experience: discovery, solutioning, sizing, and proposal defense. Track record delivering enterprise solutions at scale (high availability, security, multi-env CI/CD). Degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or equivalent experience). Relevant certifications (AEM Architect, Azure/AWS Architect, API mgmt) are a plus.

Soft Skills

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Executive-grade communication and storytelling; crisp diagrams and collateral. Ability to simplify complex topics and drive consensus across business, security, and engineering. * Collaborative leadership; coaches teams and elevates delivery quality.