Application Architect: Adobe Experience Manager

Introduction
In this role, you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology

As an IBM Application Architect, you directly help clients transform their business and solve complex problems. You will define the scope and vision for projects that deliver customized solutions using your knowledge of IBM platforms. You are a technical leader, serving as a liaison among business partners, technical resources, and project stakeholders.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As Adobe Solution Architect, you are responsible to understand client’s business benefits and identify the gaps and focus area that need to be addressed to bring in the “wow-factor” in terms of real value add to the solution offered. You must have hands-on expertise on at least 4 implementations with Adobe Experience Manager along with a minimum of 1 real time implementations on one of the following Adobe Marketing Cloud capabilities: Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target, Adobe Campaigns, Adobe Audience Manager.

You will need to be comfortable working with clients to demonstrate technical, functional and non-functional expertise to generate trust and confidence within the client and help them envision the roadmap ahead, in alignment with their motto. You should be able to define how AEM and Adobe Marketing Cloud capabilities will fit into their enterprise architecture ecosystem and lead the technical development and delivery teams for AEM solutions, thus owning the client relationship.

Your primary responsibilities include:

• Analyse business requirements (RFPs or Business Requirements documentation) – both functional and non-functional, to derive technical solutions / designs that are scalable and sustainable, using the industry best practices design principles and own the solution blueprint.
• Streamlining scope and assumptions, perform project delivery estimations involving AEM and multiple capabilities of Adobe Marketing Cloud, recommend hardware sizing basis of load information and write down Scope of Work independently, for AEM and various capabilities of the Adobe Marketing Cloud stack.
• Derive Staffing Plans, Delivery Drops, perform dependency management, etc.
• Provide end to end enterprise architecture demonstrating how they should fit into the overall solution, describing the purpose / role of each defined component.
• Responsible for creation and integration of solution using Adobe Marketing Cloud.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Overall industry experience of 12+ years
• Tag-libraries, Sling Model, Workflow, Scheduler, Observation etc.
• AEM integration with various components of the Adobe Marketing Cloud
• Personalization journeys (online and offline segmentation), eCommerce integrations, Enterprise Search integrations, etc.
• User Authorization and Authentication (OAuth, SAML, SSO, LDAP sync, etc.)

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• You love collaborative environments that use agile methodologies to encourage creative design thinking and find innovative ways to develop with cutting edge technologies
• Ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals and with creative approach to work
• Intuitive individual with an ability to manage change and proven time management