Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Architect - Contract
Posted 1 week ago by Anson McCade Ltd
Negotiable
Outside
Onsite
Marlow, UK
Summary: The role of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Architect involves taking full architectural ownership of a complex, multi-market AEM ecosystem for a global organization in the life sciences/healthcare sector. This senior, embedded position requires driving platform strategy, governance, and engineering uplift across various digital properties. The architect will act as the technical authority, ensuring scalability and sustainability while overseeing production governance. The contract is expected to last 10-12 months and is based on-site in Marlow, UK.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and evolve the end-to-end AEM platform architecture across multiple platforms and markets
- Define and enforce engineering standards, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment strategies
- Act as technical authority and change owner for production releases
- Guide complex architectural domains including SSO, multi-Front End models, and market inheritance structures
- Harmonise user experience across a fragmented application landscape
- Work closely with system integrators and third-party vendors
- Mentor and uplift internal engineering and architecture capability
- Improve platform scalability, sustainability, and total cost of ownership
Key Skills:
- Proven experience as a senior AEM Architect in enterprise environments
- Strong hands-on architectural capability across AEM (Sites essential; Assets/Forms beneficial)
- Experience governing production deployments and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills within complex, global organisations
- Experience operating within multi-vendor ecosystems
- Ability to balance strategic architecture ownership with hands-on delivery oversight
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Marlow
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Architect - Contract
- Location: Marlow, UK (on-site, European working hours)
- Duration: 10-12 months (through December)
- Start: ASAP
- Rate: Outside IR35
We are supporting a global organisation within the life sciences/healthcare space seeking an experienced AEM Architect to take full architectural ownership of a complex, multi-market Adobe Experience Manager ecosystem.
This is a senior, Embedded role where you will drive platform strategy, governance, and engineering uplift across multiple digital properties including web, portal, and education platforms. The environment is enterprise-scale, multi-vendor, and highly visible.
The Role
You will act as the technical authority for AEM, responsible for ensuring scalability, sustainability, and long-term platform optimisation while supporting active delivery and production governance.
Key Responsibilities
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Own and evolve the end-to-end AEM platform architecture across multiple platforms and markets
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Define and enforce engineering standards, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment strategies
-
Act as technical authority and change owner for production releases
-
Guide complex architectural domains including SSO, multi-Front End models, and market inheritance structures
-
Harmonise user experience across a fragmented application landscape
-
Work closely with system integrators and third-party vendors
-
Mentor and uplift internal engineering and architecture capability
-
Improve platform scalability, sustainability, and total cost of ownership
What We're Looking For
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Proven experience as a senior AEM Architect in enterprise environments
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Strong hands-on architectural capability across AEM (Sites essential; Assets/Forms beneficial)
-
Experience governing production deployments and CI/CD pipelines
-
Strong stakeholder engagement skills within complex, global organisations
-
Experience operating within multi-vendor ecosystems
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Ability to balance strategic architecture ownership with hands-on delivery oversight
This is a high-impact contract opportunity suited to an architect who is comfortable operating as the senior technical authority within a large-scale digital ecosystem.