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.