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Technical Architect Leader - AI-Driven Digital Platforms

IBM

IT, Software Engineering, Data Science

Texas City, TX, USA · California, USA

Posted on Aug 27, 2025

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Introduction

We are seeking a visionary Technical Architect Leader to shape the future of our enterprise-scale digital platforms. This role is at the intersection of AI, cloud, and experience-driven design, leading the architectural vision for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.5 and AEM Cloud. You’ll mentor a team of Solution Architects, drive platform innovation, and ensure that our digital ecosystem is scalable, intelligent, and future-ready. If you thrive on solving complex challenges, guiding teams, and defining strategies that power next-generation customer experiences, we’d love to hear from you.

Your role and responsibilities

Architectural Leadership – Define and drive enterprise architecture for AEM platforms with an emphasis on cloud-native scalability, AI-driven personalization, and platform resilience.
Mentorship & Leadership – Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of Solution Architects, cultivating a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence.
Platform Oversight – Oversee the design, deployment, maintenance, and optimization of AEM platforms, ensuring high availability, intelligent monitoring, and continuous improvement.
DevOps & Automation – Partner with DevOps teams to implement next-gen CI/CD pipelines using Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, and automation strategies for containerized microservices.
Performance & Observability – Implement predictive monitoring and observability tools to proactively address issues and optimize system performance.
Stakeholder Collaboration – Act as a trusted advisor, aligning technical architecture with business strategy, and communicating vision across both technical and executive teams.
Strategic Innovation – Drive the adoption of emerging technologies, AI frameworks, and automation tools, ensuring the platform remains future-proof and competitive.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Deep expertise with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM 6.5 & AEM Cloud), including installation, configuration, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
Proven success architecting enterprise-scale, cloud-native platforms using Kubernetes, Docker, and Jenkins.
Experience with high-availability and failover strategies at scale.
Hands-on background in solution architecture, infrastructure automation, and scripting.
Proficiency with observability, performance optimization, and monitoring frameworks.
Skilled in Agile delivery with tools like Jira; able to manage multiple concurrent project phases.
Excellent communication skills to translate complex architecture for diverse audiences.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Hands-on experience with AEM integrations and marketing automation tools.
Leadership in mentoring and building high-performing architecture teams.
Certifications in Adobe Experience Manager, cloud platforms, or enterprise architecture frameworks.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

This position is eligible for participation in an IBM Sales Incentive plan. Actual incentive opportunity will be based on performance and the eligible Target Incentive, as addressed in the applicable plan, all of which is subject to change. The compensation range listed for this position is the IBM Reference Salary that is used when you are not actively participating in a sales plan. Your actual base pay plus incentive opportunity will be determined by the Incentive Plan assigned to you.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

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