Senior Forward Deployed Engineer — Enterprise Architect

FDE Times; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 208,000 - 302,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe’s Forward Deployed Engineer role sits at the intersection of architecture, consulting, and hands-on engineering. You’ll be embedded with Adobe’s strategic customers, solving complex platform challenges and delivering end-to-end enterprise solutions across AEP, RTCDP, AJO and adjacent systems.

You’ll lead architecture workshops, prototype rapidly with AI-assisted tools, and own the technical relationship from discovery through go-live and expansion.

Qualifications

• 8–15+ years across solution architecture, software engineering, technical consulting, or customer-facing engineering roles.
• Masters or bachelor’s in computer science or any relevant field.

Responsibilities

• Understand customers' architecture, workflows, security requirements, and business objectives.
• Translate complex problems into scalable solution designs and reference architectures.
• Investigate production-level platform issues from data ingestion to journey orchestration.
• Design end-to-end enterprise solutions across AEP, RTCDP, AJO and related Adobe systems.
• Lead architecture workshops, health checks, and technical deep-dives to earn trust.
• Prototype rapidly and leverage AI-assisted tools as part of execution.

Skills

Solution architecture

Software engineering

Technical consulting

Education

Master's or Bachelor's in CS

Tools

Temporal

Step Functions

Claude Code

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GitHub Copilot

Job description

Adobe’s Forward Deployed Engineer role sits at the intersection of architecture, consulting, and hands-on engineering. You’ll be embedded with Adobe’s strategic customers, solving complex platform challenges and delivering end-to-end enterprise solutions across AEP, RTCDP, AJO and adjacent systems.

You’ll lead architecture workshops, prototype rapidly with AI-assisted tools, and own the technical relationship from discovery through go-live and expansion.