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Principal Adobe Enterprise Architect

Architect end-to-end Adobe Experience Cloud solutions — AEP, RTCDP, AJO, CJA, AEM — plus the third-party systems around them.

Enterprise Architect

The Role

This isn't a draw-diagrams-and-hand-them-off role. You'll work with both customer teams and 5th Revolution experts to architect end-to-end solutions across the full Adobe stack for enterprise clients. From the AEP platform-services layer (RTCDP, AJO, CJA) and its emerging agentic capabilities, to the established Experience Cloud applications (Data Collection, Target, Analytics, Campaign, AEM), you own them from the first whiteboard session through go-live.

  • Assess and envision. Partner with technology, marketing, and executive stakeholders to evaluate current-state ecosystems and find the fastest path to measurable value.
  • Architect solutions. Design future-state architectures connecting technologies including CDPs, journey orchestration, content, analytics, personalization, and activation into cohesive, future-proof systems.
  • Showcase the art of the possible. Build executive-level demos, POCs, and experience showcases, and translate complex architecture into narratives that drive decisions.
  • Guide implementation and realize value. Stay connected through deployment via reference architectures, starter implementations, and mentoring, and watch your blueprints become live customer experiences.
  • Champion AI adoption. Bring technical experience from generative and agentic AI into every engagement where it creates value: AI-assisted workflows, LLMs, RAG pipelines, AI agents, Adobe Firefly, GenStudio, and AEP Agent Orchestrator.

Why 5th Revolution

The Work Other Firms Can't Offer

We challenge the status quo and put data and technology first, so your energy goes into the outcome and the growth it creates, not the org chart.

  • Constant challenge from people at your level.
  • Actually build, at Fortune 100 scale.
  • Go wide, not siloed.
  • All technology, none of the politics.
  • Driven by results, not headcount or hours.

The Five Points

We hold every hire to the same five points, the five points of the 5th Revolution star. No one point carries a hire on its own, and no one point is a formality.

Business Communication & Leadership

You own the room and the outcome. You move fluidly between the CMO's language and the IT lead's, frame everything in business value, and set a direction cross-functional teams want to execute.

  • Translate fluidly between executive and technical audiences
  • Frame every decision in business value
  • Lead cross-functional delivery teams

Technical Breadth & Depth

Deep hands-on command of the full Adobe stack and how the pieces connect architecturally, backed by enterprise integration fluency and applied AI that has actually shipped.

  • Hands-on across AEP, RTCDP, AJO, CJA, AEM, Target, Analytics, and Campaign
  • Enterprise integration: REST APIs, AWS/Azure, identity, consent, data flows
  • Shipped applied AI: RAG, agent frameworks, AEP Agent Orchestrator, MCP

Strategic Thinking

You get from "we need a CDP" to the real business goals, a sequenced roadmap, and an ROI case that wins executive budget, sequencing for fastest measurable value, not activity.

  • Turn vague asks into goals, roadmap, and an ROI case
  • Scope, size against product licensing, and set realistic timelines
  • Protect scope, schedule, and budget when reality pushes back

Drive to Learn & Grow, Together

You never accept the status quo. You stay current because you are genuinely curious, and you level up the whole team by learning alongside your peers.

  • Genuinely curious, always current
  • Level up the whole team, not just yourself
  • Best approach wins, regardless of title or tenure

Relevant Experience

You have operated in a lead consultative role (Architect or Principal Consultant) on large-scale enterprise digital-marketing ecosystems, owning technical direction through delivery, not just execution. This is the Principal seat, so the experience floor is real.

  • 5+ years in a lead architect or principal consultant role on enterprise Adobe ecosystems
  • Multiple full-lifecycle enterprise engagements, hands-on across three or more Adobe solutions
  • Adobe Certified Expert credentials a strong signal

Compensation & Engagement

W-2 from day one. Hourly to start, converting to salaried. You are a 5th Revolution employee from your first day, not an agency placement and not a 1099 contractor. You start on longer-term client engagements, not gig-to-gig work. Our current engagements run on six-month and twelve-month terms with renewal, and we staff against committed scope rather than speculative pipeline. We are candid that no consultancy can guarantee a client's renewal, and we will tell you where an engagement stands rather than let you find out.

  • Competitive rate; total compensation reflects skill and impact, not just years
  • Annual certification and professional-development budget; conference attendance and speaking opportunities
  • Fully remote, up to ~10% travel. During the hourly phase your schedule is agreed in advance and all hours worked are recorded and paid, including overtime
  • Latest tools, hardware, and AI-enabled development environments

Pay range. During the initial hourly phase, this role pays $110 to $185 per hour. On conversion to a salaried role, the base salary range is $155,000 to $290,000 per year.

Be plain about the arithmetic. The two are not a like-for-like comparison. Hourly, you are non-exempt: you are paid for every hour you work, overtime included, and you carry the variability. Salaried, you are paid whether or not you are on a billable engagement, and overtime no longer applies. One trades stability for upside, the other trades upside for stability, which is exactly the choice conversion represents.

These are good-faith ranges. Actual compensation depends on experience, skills, and location.

Benefits. Paid sick leave and an annual certification and professional-development budget.

At-will. Employment with 5th Revolution is at will. Either you or 5th Revolution may end it at any time, with or without cause or notice. Nothing on this page is an offer, a contract, or a guarantee of employment, of any term of employment, of conversion, or of any specific compensation. Any offer we make will be in writing and will govern.

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  • If we move forward, your first conversation is with a technical architect, not a recruiter screen.
  • We focus on what you have actually built, not on keyword matching or AI slop.
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Equal Opportunity

5th Revolution LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We are committed to a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. We do not request or use your salary history in setting pay.

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Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.