Adobe Lead Enterprise Architect

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for making key technical decisions and ensuring that IT strategies align with business goals. This role requires, stakeholder management, and the ability to drive efficiencies while identifying growth opportunities. The ideal candidate will provide strategic guidance, optimize technology investments, and lead multi-platform implementations for Merkle’s clients.  This role involves working closely with business and technology stakeholders to define scalable architectures, ensuring seamless integration across various platforms, and driving digital transformation. The Enterprise Architect will be a thought leader, influencing both technical and business strategies while ensuring best practices in system design, security, and performance. 
Applicants must reside within a commutable distance or willing to travel to Denver, Colorado. This is a hybrid position.

Key Responsibilities:

You will serve as the accountable decision-maker for all technical aspects of enterprise architecture. 
You’ll define and implement technology roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business objectives. 
You will manage high-level stakeholder relationships, ensuring alignment between business and technology strategies. 
You’ll identify opportunities for business growth and contribute to sales initiatives by providing technical expertise and strategic recommendations. 
Optimize technology processes, improving efficiency, reducing costs, and enhancing system scalability. 
Provide expert advisory to customers, guiding them on best practices, technology adoption, and avoiding potential pitfalls. 
You will drive architectural governance, ensuring consistency, reusability, and standardization across multiple workstreams 
Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovative solutions to drive digital transformation. 
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, technology SMEs, including developers, DevOps engineers, security teams, and product managers. 
Manage risk assessment and mitigation strategies, ensuring robust and future-proof architectures. 
Required Skills & Qualifications:

12+ years of experience designing and building IT solutions across various domains. 
3+ years of experience in enterprise architecture for large-scale implementations. 
Proven expertise in enterprise architecture, IT strategy, and technical leadership roles. 
Strong stakeholder management, with experience engaging with C-suite executives and business leaders. 
Deep understanding of modern IT frameworks, cloud-native architectures, and enterprise integration patterns. 
Analyze complex systems and provide clear, strategic recommendations. 
Experience in escalation management, handling high-pressure situations effectively.  
Technical Knowledge:

CMS Expertise: Strong experience with AEM or other CMS platforms, including their implementation and integration. 
Adobe Products: Experience with Adobe Experience Cloud products is a significant advantage. 
Proven ability to design, develop, and manage scalable, loosely coupled services using industry best practices. 
Architectures: Expertise in Headless & Composable architectures, ensuring flexibility and scalability. 
Scalability & Performance: Experience optimizing backend services to handle high traffic, low latency, and rapid scalability requirements. 
Multi-Tenant Architecture: Ability to design systems that support multiple brands and customization for different channels. 
Nice to Have:

Cloud Technologies: Familiarity with at least one cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) 
Event-Driven Architecture: Knowledge of designing asynchronous architecture. 
DevOps Practices: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines. 
Experience with enterprise systems such as: 
Commerce Platform 
DAM (Digital Asset Management) 
CRM (Customer Relationship Management) solutions (Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics)