Summary
Brainlake is seeking an Adobe DXP Architect to lead the design and delivery of enterprise digital experience platforms for large organizations. The role covers Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Experience Platform architecture, integrations, data and identity strategy, and technical leadership through implementation and go-live. Applicants should have 10+ years in digital or enterprise technology, including 6+ years architecting on Adobe Experience Cloud, and experience delivering large-scale client programmes. The role is based in Dubai and is suited to someone comfortable working in a contract capacity.
The posting
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We’re looking for a highly technical Adobe DXP Architect to lead the design and delivery of enterprise digital experience platforms for large, complex organizations.
This is a hands-on, client-facing role for someone who is equally comfortable in a stakeholder workshop and in a technical design review. You’ll understand how the business operates, shape the target architecture across the Adobe Experience Cloud, and guide delivery teams through to a production-ready, scalable platform.
You’ll work on enterprise-scale transformation programmes with multiple workstreams, demanding stakeholders, and real accountability for outcomes. We want someone who brings a point of view, not just someone who executes a specification. You should have shaped solutions, defended architectural decisions, and seen them through go-live.
What You'll Do
❏ Lead discovery with business and technology stakeholders to understand objectives, current-state landscapes, and customer experience requirements.
❏ Define end-to-end target architectures across Adobe Experience Manager (Sites, Assets, Forms) and Adobe Experience Platform (RT-CDP, Journey Optimizer, Target, Analytics / CJA).
❏ Translate business and experience requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.
❏ Make and document key architectural decisions, including AEM as a Cloud Service vs. on-premise/AMS, headless vs. hybrid delivery, and data and identity strategy.
❏ Design integrations between Adobe products and enterprise platforms such as CRM, commerce, ERP, CDPs, identity providers, and data warehouses, using APIs, event-driven patterns, and middleware.
❏ Define data models, XDM schemas, identity resolution, and audience segmentation approaches that support personalization and journey orchestration.
❏ Provide technical leadership to development teams, including code and design reviews, development standards, CI/CD via Cloud Manager, and environment strategy.
❏ Ensure solutions meet performance, security, accessibility, and data privacy requirements, including regional data residency where applicable.
❏ Contribute to solutioning, estimation, and scoping of new phases and change requests.
❏ Prototype and validate approaches before full implementation to reduce delivery risk.
❏ Identify opportunities to use AI capabilities across the Adobe stack, such as AI Assistant, generative content, and predictive audiences, where they create real business value.
❏ Advise clients on platform roadmap, licensing implications, and adoption best practice.
❏ Produce high-quality architecture artefacts, including solution designs, integration specifications, and decision records.
❏ Collaborate with UX, data, marketing, and delivery leads throughout discovery, design, build, and optimization.
Requirements
What You'll Bring
❏ 10+ years in digital or enterprise technology, including 6+ years architecting on the Adobe Experience Cloud.
❏ A track record of leading Adobe implementations end to end on large-scale, multi-workstream programmes.
❏ Experience in a consulting or systems integration environment, delivering for enterprise clients in a structured, client-facing delivery model.
❏ Deep hands-on AEM expertise, including Cloud Service, components and templates, Sling/OSGi, Dispatcher, content and DAM architecture, and headless delivery (GraphQL, Content Fragments).
❏ Strong working knowledge of AEP and its applications (RT-CDP, AJO, Target, Analytics / CJA), with practical experience in data ingestion, schemas, and identity.
❏ Solid integration and cloud architecture skills, including REST APIs, Adobe I/O / App Builder, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
❏ The ability to communicate architecture clearly to senior business stakeholders and technical teams alike.
❏ Comfort working independently in a contract capacity and getting productive quickly within established client teams.
Good to Have
❏ Adobe certifications such as Adobe Certified Master or Expert (AEM Architect, AEP Architect).
❏ Experience in regulated or public-sector environments, such as financial services, government, or telecoms.
❏ Experience with Adobe Commerce or Workfront.
❏ GCC client experience and/or Arabic language skills.