Sr Computer Scientist - 2 (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!

About Us

At Adobe, you will be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognized around the world. Adobe is listed as Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” for 20 consecutive years. You will also be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow. If you’re looking to make an impact, Adobe's the place for you. Discover what our employees are saying about their career experiences on the Adobe Life blog and explore the meaningful benefits we offer.  

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give global brands everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences. We’re passionate about transforming 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.

Opportunity

About the Role

Digital Experience (DX) ( https://www.adobe.com/experience-cloud.html) is a USD 5B+ business serving the needs of enterprise businesses including 95%+ of fortune 500 organizations.

Adobe Marketo and Adobe Journey Optimizer B2B, within Adobe DX are the world’s largest marketing automation platform, providing solutions that lets enterprises attract, segment and nurture customers — from discovery to biggest fan. It lets enterprises do effective engagement through various surfaces and touchpoints.

We are looking for strong and passionate engineers to lead the architecture of next gen products and offerings as we scale the business. This is a critical position for an individual who is deeply technical, a masterful communicator, passionate about pushing the boundaries, and a strategic thinker always looking around the corner for the next big innovation.

The ideal candidate will be instrumental in shaping our technology stack, driving technical excellence, and fostering a culture of continuous learning, innovation and high performance. You will be working with a dynamic team of engineers, engineering managers, and architects. You will be responsible for the architecture of large-scale applications, microservices, and cutting-edge AI/GenAI solutions that push the boundaries of what's possible.

Key Responsibilities

As a Software Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Define and evolve the architectural vision and roadmap for our products, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical best practices

• Provide proactive thought leadership, identifying emerging technologies, market trends, and disruptive opportunities (e.g., advanced AI/GenAI applications)

• Design and oversee the implementation of highly scalable, resilient, and performant distributed systems, encompassing hundreds of microservices
• Drive the design of both new product functionalities and the operational aspects of our systems, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and disaster recovery
• Lead the technical delivery of AI-powered features for customers, leveraging your expertise in AI, especially generative AI and agents
• Explore and implement AI solutions to enhance developer productivity and internal processes
• Ensure architectural decisions drive strong customer satisfaction and positive business outcomes

• Cultivate an environment of ownership, innovation and challenge the status quo and push the envelope in every aspect of development

• Provide thought leadership, technical guidance, and mentorship to engineering teams across multiple locations
• Stay at the forefront of technology trends, continually evaluating and recommending new tools, technologies, and approaches
• Champion best practices in software engineering, security, and quality
• Collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions
• Navigate and resolve critical customer situations
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning within the engineering organization
• Provide empathetic leadership and mentorship to the engineering teams

What you need to succeed 

• Passion and love of what you do!
• 14+ years of experience in software development with 5+ years in software architect role designing and building large-scale, distributed systems
• Deep expertise in designing and implementing highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and performant architectures
• Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Rest Services, MySQL or Postgres, MongoDB, Kafka
• Experience in developing and building solution with cloud technologies (AWS and/or Azure)
• Good understanding of working with Cassandra, Solr, ElasticSearch, Snowflake
• Contributions to open-source projects or industry publication will be an added advantage

• Possess strong understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Generative AI (GenAI) and Agents
• Proven experience in leading teams to deliver AI-powered features for customers and leveraging AI for internal team productivity will be an added advantage

• Ambitious and not afraid to tackle unknowns, demonstrates a strong bias to action

• Thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment, capable of quickly pivoting and learning new technologies and domains

• Demonstrated ability to manage stakeholders effectively and work collaboratively with geographically distributed teams
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect technical decisions to customer impact and business value
• Self-motivated with a desire to mentor a team and the ability to drive the team to accomplish high-quality deliverables

• Demonstrated ability to drive innovation and lead change

• Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving and conflict resolution skills
• Excellent speaking, writing, and presentation skills, as well as the ability to persuade, encourage, and empower others

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

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