Adobe Experience Platform Architect

Join a team of Adobe experts and drive results for Fortune 100 brands.

About the role

Most organizations split this work three ways: one team owns collection, another owns the platform, a third owns audiences, and everyone spends time arguing about whose fault the broken profile is. We do not split it. You are the architect of the whole spine, from the first event fired on the page, through Experience Platform, to the audience landing in a destination, and the integrations that connect Adobe to everything around it.

• Design the data model. Own the XDM schemas, field groups, datasets, and identity strategy, built to hold up when a second brand, region, or channel arrives, not just to pass the first load.
• Architect collection through activation. Set the design for Web SDK and mobile collection, datastreams, Real-Time Customer Profile, and Real-Time CDP audiences and destinations, so the whole path is coherent rather than stitched.
• Own the integrations. Design how Adobe connects to the surrounding stack, warehouses, CRMs, and downstream tools, with the data flowing both ways cleanly.
• Govern it. Set the standards for identity, consent, privacy (GDPR, CCPA), and data quality, and the sandbox and permission model that keeps them enforced.
• Stay hands-on. Build the hard parts yourself, prove the design with a working slice, and be the person who can debug the profile at 4pm on a launch day.

Your First 90 Days

• Weeks 1-3. Document the current state: schemas, datasets, identity namespaces, merge policies, sandboxes, and who holds what access. Half the value is discovering what is already live before someone rebuilds it.
• Weeks 4-8. Fix the foundation: schema, identity, and datastream design that survives the next source, the next brand, and the next channel, proven with a working slice rather than a diagram.
• Weeks 9-12. Make it governable: consent enforcement, data usage labels, and a permission model where access follows the work someone actually does.

Why 5th Revolution

The Work Other Firms Can't Offer

• We challenge the status quo and put data and technology first, so your energy goes into the outcome and the growth it creates, not the org chart.
• Constant challenge from people at your level.
• Actually build, at Fortune 100 scale.
• Go wide, not siloed.
• All technology, none of the politics.
• Driven by results, not headcount or hours.

Responsibilities

• Model the data into schemas: XDM schemas, field groups, and datasets built to hold up as sources multiply.
• Define identity and manage merge policies: identity namespaces and identity maps, and the merge policies that produce a defensible Real-Time Customer Profile.
• Data governance: consent enforcement, data usage labels and policies, and privacy (GDPR, CCPA).
• Collect with the Web SDK: Alloy / Web SDK and datastreams, with event and consent design correct from the first hit, feeding Real-Time CDP audiences and destinations.
• Turn vague asks into goals, roadmap, and an ROI case that wins executive budget, sequencing for fastest measurable value, not activity.
• Scope, size against product licensing, and set realistic timelines.
• Protect scope, schedule, and budget when reality pushes back.
• Stay genuinely curious, always current, and level up the whole team by learning alongside your peers.

Requirements

• 2+ years hands-on Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) and Real-Time CDP, or 5+ years in a closely related data-engineering or CDP role.
• Designed and delivered an AEP implementation from collection through activation; owning identity and integration architecture lands you higher.
• Adobe Certified Expert in Experience Platform or Data Collection is a plus, not a requirement.

Skills

• Business Communication & Leadership: Own the room and the outcome. Move fluidly between executive teams and delivery, framing everything in business value, and setting a direction cross-functional teams want to execute.
• Technical Breadth & Depth: Deep hands-on AEP, centered on the data architecture itself.
• Strategic Thinking: Get from "we need a CDP" to the real business goals, a sequenced roadmap, and an ROI case that wins executive budget.
• Drive to Learn & Grow, Together: Never accept the status quo. Stay current because you are genuinely curious, and level up the whole team by learning alongside your peers.

Benefits

• W-2 employment from day one, with hourly-to-salaried conversion typically evaluated within the first six to nine months.
• Annual certification and professional-development budget; conference attendance and speaking opportunities.
• Fully remote, up to ~10% travel.
• Latest tools, hardware, and AI-enabled development environments.
• Paid sick leave.

Pay

During the initial hourly phase, this role pays $95 to $160 per hour. On conversion to a salaried role, the base salary range is $135,000 to $230,000 per year.

The two are not a like-for-like comparison. Hourly, you are non-exempt: paid for every hour worked, overtime included, with variability. Salaried, you are paid whether or not you are on a billable engagement, and overtime no longer applies. One trades stability for upside, the other trades upside for stability.

Actual compensation depends on experience, skills, and location.

Schedule

Fully remote. During the hourly phase, your schedule is agreed in advance and all hours worked are recorded and paid, including overtime. Up to ~10% travel.