Senior Director, Enterprise Platforms (US)
Code and Theory is a digital-first creative and technology agency that builds products, platforms and experiences for global brands. We combine engineering, design, data and strategy to deliver transformative digital solutions at scale.
This role leads the architecture pillar of the Adobe practice. You will be the senior architectural authority across every Adobe engagement we run, and the person our architects look to for technical direction, career growth and advocacy. You will also be the technical face of Code and Theory everywhere including Adobe - in front of their field teams, in front of their clients, and in the rooms where solutions get shaped before anyone writes a line of code.
This is not a role for someone who has stopped architecting. It is a leadership role for a practicing architect who wants to build and lead a team of them.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Own architectural quality across every Adobe engagement in the practice - content, data, work management and everything that connects them
- Run architecture reviews that change outcomes rather than rubber-stamp them, and establish the cadence and standards that make them worth attending
- Set and maintain architecture standards, reference architectures, decision records and reusable patterns across the practice
- Act as the escalation point for the hardest design and integration problems, and step in personally when an engagement is architecturally off-track
- Build the accelerator and asset library that makes each engagement faster than the last - migration tooling, discovery frameworks, estimation models, solution blueprints
- Hire, grow and lead a distributed team of multi-solution architects spanning content, data and work management specialisms
- Own performance management and career development decisions for your team - genuinely own them, with the context to advocate properly for the work your team is doing
- Mentor architects across specializations other than your own, which means being credible enough to challenge a data architect on identity strategy and a content architect on Edge Delivery Services in the same week
- Establish how architects work across concurrent engagements without becoming spread too thin
- Build a culture where architects volunteer their boundaries, document their decisions, and are trusted to say no
- Lead technical solutioning on enterprise pursuits - architecture narrative, effort estimation, staffing shape, scope definition and the technical story in the room
- Partner with sales, client partners and Adobe alliance leads on deal strategy
- Translate business problems into scalable Adobe architectures, and translate technical complexity into value propositions executives can act on
- Build the estimation discipline that makes our commitments credible - and hold the practice to estimate-versus-actual accuracy
- Establish agentic engineering as how this team works, not as an experiment running alongside it
- Build agents, sub-agents and orchestrated workflows that accelerate discovery, solution documentation, estimation, code review and migration - and get architects using them
- Evaluate and adopt emerging AI capabilities across the Adobe stack and beyond, and set the guardrails that make AI output safe to put in front of a client
- Mentor architects on AI-native working, including the ones who are skeptical
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- 20+ years in technology, including 5+ years leading architects or senior technical staff globally. (India, LATAM etc)
- Demonstrated ownership of performance reviews, career development and compensation decisions - not mentoring alone
- Experience in an agency, consultancy or systems integrator, carrying multiple concurrent clients
- Experience delivering across US, India and LATAM specifically
- Deep, hands-on architectural expertise in at least one of the following:
- Content and experience - AEM Sites and Assets, AEMaaCS, Edge Delivery Services, Forms, EDS
- Data and personalization