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In this role, you will shape enterprise architecture through transformation, plan transitions, lead governance forums, and support technical delivery until platform adoption.
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Your role in the team
- As a Principal Enterprise Architect Professional Services, you will guide architecture through the transformation lifecycle.
- You will build executive confidence, govern design decisions, lead architecture build, and make sure technology choices support long-term value.
- You will bridge business goals and technical delivery by designing target architectures, planning transitions, and creating decommissioning strategies.
- Using change management frameworks such as ADKAR, you'll support adoption and sustainability.
- Assess and advance the architectural intent crafted during pre-sales.
- Provide architectural leadership across the full transformation lifecycle and guide platform adoption and evolution.
- Convert the success roadmap created during pre-sales into a comprehensive, managed transition plan featuring clear sequencing, decision points, and risk controls.
- Formulate robust, industry-specific architectural perspectives and translate them into target-state architecture, reference models, and phased implementation plans.
- Foster and maintain executive trust in architectural direction, serving as a strategic advisor to senior business and technology collaborators.
- Collaborate with licensing and services sales teams to improve major sales initiatives.
- Coordinate architectural efforts among delivery teams, subject matter experts, and partners to ensure build integrity and alignment during execution.
- Establish and lead architecture governance and assurance forums.
- Partner closely with pre-sales teams to ensure that lessons learned, established patterns, and reference architectures continually improve future pursuits and delivery outcomes.
Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Strong grounding in TOGAF principles and lifecycle-based architecture governance, applied pragmatically in complex enterprise environments.
- Broad understanding of digital marketing, data, and activation ecosystems.
- The ability to craft compelling narratives that translate architectural choices into business-relevant outcomes and messages tailored to executives.
- Strong understanding of AI, automation, and emerging agentic models, and their implications for enterprise platforms.
- Ability to apply structured change and adoption approaches (including ADKAR) to support the human and organisational aspects of architectural evolution.
- A collaborative, outcome-focused leadership style, with a relentless focus on value and adoption.
- Fluency in English and German is required. Any other European language would be a plus.
Experience
- Proven experience providing enterprise architecture leadership across large-scale transformation programmes, from early visioning and pre-sales through delivery, adoption, and platform evolution.
- Experience operating as a trusted architectural advisor to senior executives.
- Experience working closely with delivery teams, partners, and vendors to maintain build integrity.
What we offer
- Our compensation reflects the cost of labor in a certain location, and we pay differently based on those defined markets.
- Pay within the range(s) will depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, and your recruiter can share more during the hiring process.
- At Adobe, for non-sales roles, compensation is expressed as base salary, with short-term incentives provided through the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).
- You will be eligible to participate in the AIP bonus plan.
- AIP bonus payout is subject to the applicable plan terms in connection with individual performance on an annual basis.
- In addition, we offer a range of inclusive benefits to support you and your family—from medical, dental, and vision coverage to financial planning, an employee assistance program, and learning opportunities.
Benefits
Health, fitness & fun
Higher take-home pay
Work-Life-Integration
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About your employer
Adobe offers an exceptional work environment that has been recognized by reputable organizations worldwide as one of the best companies to work for. At the same time, you will be surrounded by a team of collegial and helpful colleagues who are constantly growing and improving through our unique feedback system.
- Established Company
- Onsite, Hybrid, Full Remote
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
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- Career growth
- 3.9
- Team culture
- 4.8
- Working conditions
- 4.6
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