Overview As Adobe Stock's architectural authority, you own end-to-end architecture and guide critical features and services. You translate business objectives into scalable, production-grade plans while upholding performance, security, and governance. You shape AI-native and agentic workflows within a cross-functional team. This role combines strategic direction with hands-on influence on large-scale systems. You will mentor engineers and communicate architectural decisions to executives, shaping the future of stock content experiences.
Responsibilities- Set long-term architecture direction aligned with product, tech, and business strategy
- Assess feasibility, dependencies, risks, and investment paths for strategic objectives
- Lead architecture of large-scale systems for content search, discovery, delivery, licensing, generative AI, and workflows
- Shape integration of AI-native and agentic capabilities into production workflows
- Establish patterns and standards for APIs, microservices, frontend, event-driven, data platforms, and cross-product integrations
- Identify systemic risks and architectural gaps; collaborate on mitigation plans
- Communicate architectural direction, risks, and investment needs to senior stakeholders
- Mentor architects and technical leads, developing systems thinking and technical judgment
Key requirements- 20+ years in software engineering and platform architecture
- Expertise in distributed, event-driven architectures, APIs, frontend, data platforms, cloud-native tech, and systems integration
- Experience designing for performance, scalability, reliability, security, privacy, observability, and operational efficiency
- Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to explain complex tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, engineering, or related field
- strong communication
- leadership and mentoring
- collaboration across matrixed teams
- distributed systems
- event-driven architectures
- APIs and microservices
