Senior Data Architect

Opportunity

As a Senior Customer Experience Orchestration Data Architect at Adobe, you will lead the development of advanced, secure data solutions for our innovative digital marketing platforms. We craft data strategy, architecture, SQL and governance for customer solutions, including end-to-end profiles, segmentation, journeys, and campaigns!

What You’ll Do

• Provide deep experience to build data solutions across multiple Adobe products and cloud platforms aligned with enterprise data strategy.
• Engage closely with customers and Adobe team to facilitate data discovery by evaluating systems and business processes. Analyze customer sources, data movement, data granularity, relationships, data format, etc.
• Unify disparate data (e.g., sales, CRM, analytics data, etc.) to meet customers’ digital marketing use cases. Lead and develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models for multi-solution delivery.
• Establish frameworks for data quality, define standards, master data management, data services, data governance, data modeling, tools, data security, privacy, and compliance with industry regulations (PII, PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, etc.).
• We develop and champion data architecture guidelines via detailed documentation. These encompass architectural blueprints, ERDs, data flow diagrams, source-to-target mappings, data dictionaries, metadata catalogs, governance frameworks, guardrails, and security and compliance protocols.
• We engage with cross-disciplinary groups and Adobe professionals to identify customer demands. We provide data layout and strategic blueprints, advocating for scalable, secure resolutions. Assume the role of a liaison to promptly tackle technical obstacles.
• We develop strategies for growing data volumes, tools, and integrations, while aligning with customers’ objectives.
• We deliver mentorship on data architecture to customers and consultants to align work with targets.
• We deliver Adobe platform data lake and real-time customer profile to get ready for data ingestion and activation. Employ REST APIs, Postman, and basic scripting to automate and streamline the implementation and setup.
• Develop and construct data ingestion solutions for streaming and batch processing, online and offline data within AEP. Collaborate with data engineers to develop and implement ETL/ELT pipelines for data collection and extraction.
• We improve data query performance across platforms by tuning models and adhering to guidelines and ensure product guardrails are followed and deployed in solutions

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of data architecture, modeling, SQL, and working with customers!
• Expert proficiency in crafting customer-centric database models, datasets (e.g., CRM, Call Center, Marketing, Offline, Point of Sale, etc.) with relational, hierarchical (e.g., RDBMS, Columnar, Data Warehouse, BI, Document, Semantic layer modeling, Data Lakes, OLTP & OLAP, etc.).
• Advanced skills in SQL development (e.g., functions, data transformations, arrays, joins details, stored procedures, data analysis).
• Deep experience in translating business requirements into scalable data architecture by conducting structured analysis of data workflows and processes
• Demonstrate outstanding organizational skills and ability to balance customer projects concurrently with strong verbal, written communication skills and previous experience with customer-facing engagements

Special Consideration given for

• Hands-on use or administration of Adobe Experience Platform (AEP)
• Deep domain expertise in one or more industries (Retail, Telecom, Healthcare, Automotive, Cloud and Streaming platforms, etc.)
• Experience with programming languages (e.g., Python or Bash scripting)

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours. 

Let’s Adobe together

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Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI — and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it’s restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.

Expected Pay Range:

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 position is $146,800 - $263,900 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and 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.

In California, the pay range for this position is $182,300 - $263,900
In New York, the pay range for this position is $182,300 - $263,900
In Washington, the pay range for this position is $171,600 - $248,600


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:

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Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

Colorado:

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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. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

Massachusetts:

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It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.