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Sr. Director, Enterprise Architect

Adobe Inc.
United States, California, San Jose
345 Park Avenue (Show on map)
Apr 25, 2025
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! The Opportunity The Sr. Director, Enterprise Architect will lead the Enterprise Architecture team to enable innovation and accelerate delivery from Adobe Technology Services (ATS). Within the ATS organization, the mission is to craft and implement robust, scalable, and flexible systems delivering strategic business objectives and innovation. This includes Marketing, Sales, Legal, Commerce, Finance, Customer Support, Analytics and Employee Experience applications. Adobe ATS exists to "Fuel the true potential of everyone to deliver outstanding experiences." This includes: Delivering Enterprise, Employee and Data services and solutions Running end-to-end operations for resiliency, reliability, redundancy Running ATS as a Business by being architecture driven and driving continuous improvement What you'll do Provide vision for establishing and running a CoE practice that spans across the technology spectrum of business capabilities and solutions. Partner with team members to apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for assembling enterprise business capability and developing roadmaps that guide strategic enterprise initiatives in support of short, medium and long-term objectives Deliver practical knowledge implementing AI/ML solutions, crafting scalable data architectures, and staying ahead of technology trends that impact business strategy. Provide insight into impacts, constraints, risks and opportunities to support ATS' strategic planning process across Adobe Collaborate to build and implement technical and architectural standards and governance across Adobe; provide technology direction, with a tight alignment between business & product strategy Build actionable target and reference architectures for each step of the roadmap while adhering to enterprise principles, policies and standards. Watch and guide software architecture processes, decisions, and related forums to identify, evaluate, prototype, and implement key technologies, leading to an integrated, scalable, and efficient architecture Work with the solution architects across ATS to grow and maintain a comprehensive technical blueprint of the team's services, crafting solution options that align ATS services with business goals with consideration of technical and non-technical implications and trade-offs In collaboration with the engineering leads, set and articulate the technical vision and direction for multiple application teams across ATS. Conduct research and feasibility studies on new data technologies and make determinations on the probability and timing of implementation What you need to succeed Consistent record in enterprise architecture, with experience operating in a business application environment; with 10+ years of Service Life Cycle/Software Development experience in large, sophisticated systems Expert ability to communicate and lead execution of architecture vision across multi-functional technical and strategy teams. Strong executive presence with developing and being an outstanding partner with customers at both technical and executive level Demonstrate leadership - leading effective teams, mentoring and developing others, having strong peer relationships, and leading and driving innovations with new technologies Knowledgeable of current application technologies: mobile, social media, analytics, artificial learning, machine language and business intelligence Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this positionis $187,200 -- $420,000 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills,and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process. At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP). In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award. State-Specific Notices: California: Fair Chance Ordinances Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances. Colorado: Application Window Notice If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. 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