Platform Architect

You’ll be joining Adobe on a contract opportunity, employed through NextDeavor.

Benefits You’ll Love

NextDeavor offers health, vision and dental benefits for contract employees

Paid sick leave eligibility is contingent on state of residence

Optional 401k Plan (excludes employer match)

Opportunity to get your foot in the door at a well-established corporation, with potential for extended or permanent full-time employment

Become a Key Player as a Platform Architect

As a Platform Architect, you will lead the design and evolution of Adobe’s AI-driven data and analytics platforms, enabling intelligent automation and agent-based workflows at scale. You’ll partner with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver next-generation capabilities for analytics, governance, and autonomous agents. Work model: Hybrid in San Jose, CA—3 days onsite weekly (Tues & Thurs required; third day flexible); full-time, 40 hours/week; not open to remote. This is a contract role through 02/27/2026 with potential extension pending performance and budget.

Here’s How You’ll Make an Impact on the Team

Define and maintain AI-first architecture for data and analytics platforms, integrating LLMs, agent frameworks, and orchestration layers.

Design agentic workflows for data stewardship, hierarchy management, and firmographic enrichment.

Architect multi-agent systems for automation, predictive analytics, and decision intelligence.

Ensure AI components comply with responsible AI principles, security, and governance standards.

Build custom AI agents for data quality, enrichment, and operational workflows.

Implement agent orchestration frameworks for scalable execution across distributed environments.

Integrate AI-driven rules engines for dynamic data governance and override logic.

Develop and optimize platform services for Databricks, Power BI, Tableau, SQL Server, and Collibra.

Implement infrastructure-as-code for provisioning, scaling, and monitoring AI-enabled platform components.

Drive observability for AI workloads through APM, logging, and performance dashboards.

Design and implement data pipelines for structured and unstructured sources (ERP, CRM, telemetry).

Apply ETL/ELT best practices for ingestion and transformation at scale.

Re-engineer foundational data assets into AI-ready architectures (Medallion, Gold Layer).

Champion AI-driven orchestration for automation and predictive analytics.

Implement data quality frameworks, metadata management, and master data governance.

Here’s What You’ll Need to Be Successful in This Role

8 years in data architecture, platform engineering, and data engineering roles.

Expertise in cloud-native platforms (Azure, AWS) and distributed systems.

Strong experience with Databricks, Spark, SQL, Python, and AI/ML frameworks.

Familiarity with agent orchestration tools and multi-agent architectures.

Proven ability to design scalable, cost-efficient AI platforms for analytics and automation.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Here’s What Else Might Help You Out

Experience with LLM-based agents, orchestration frameworks, and AI governance.

Knowledge of Medallion architecture, EDA frameworks, and agentic design patterns.

Background in platform observability and performance optimization for AI workloads.

Pay Range

$67.44 - $84.30/hour

Ready to Make Your Mark?

This role may fill quickly. Submit your resume to be considered

Pay: $67.44 - $84.30 per hour

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Dowagiac, MI 49047

Salary : $67 - $84