Senior Enterprise Tech Architect

Avanade Company•Houston, TX

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Avanade Inc. seeks a Senior Enterprise Tech Architect in Houston, TX. This role is part of the leadership team in a growing Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) practice, overseeing digital transformation initiatives to enhance customer experience, optimize costs, and drive business outcomes. The position involves managing Digital Marketing client engagements and leading all phases of the software development lifecycle, including estimation, design, implementation, documentation, testing, deployment, and support. The role also includes leading the design, architecture, development, testing, and deployment of AEM Web and Mobile solutions. Collaboration with clients, designers, product owners, developers, system administrators, project managers, business analysts, and end users is key to building a cutting-edge Digital Platform using Adobe’s Digital Marketing Product Suite. The role emphasizes engineering excellence by promoting Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and comprehensive documentation. It requires implementing strategies based on business needs, long-term objectives, and creative design, while providing technical guidance to AEM developers on best practices for both front-end and back-end development. Hands-on coding is expected when necessary, along with architectural input on server environment configuration, clustering, caching, CDN usage, and security. The role involves leading project teams of 10+ AEM developers across onsite and remote global locations and contributing to collateral development for efficient AEM project implementation. Periodic travel to client sites (domestic) is expected up to 80% of the time. Candidates must live within reasonable commuting distance of Houston, TX.

Requirements

At least a bachelor’s degree, or its foreign equivalent, in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a closely related field.
At least seven (7) years of experience as a software developer or technical architect, or in a similar occupation within a technology or IT consulting environment.
7 years of development experience with Microsoft technologies including .NET, SQL, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
6 years of development experience with Sitecore products and formats, including XM Cloud or its predecessors (XM and XP), Content Hub, Active Commerce/uCommerce, Personalize, and/or SXA.
6 years of experience performing data migration in Sitecore.
6 years of experience configuring and integrating modern Search solutions including Solr, Coveo, Sitecore and/or Search or its predecessors.
6 years of experience with governance principles, security and compliance standards, ensuring adherence to Sitecore best practices.
2 years of experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure for enterprise-scale deployments.
4 years of experience leading and managing developers on Sitecore implementations.

Responsibilities

Manage Digital Marketing client engagements.
Lead all phases of the software development lifecycle: estimation, design, implementation, documentation, testing, deployment, and support.
Lead the design, architecture, development, testing, and deployment of AEM Web and Mobile solutions.
Collaborate with clients, designers, product owners, developers, system administrators, project managers, business analysts, and end users to build a cutting-edge Digital Platform using Adobe’s Digital Marketing Product Suite.
Ensure engineering excellence by promoting Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and comprehensive documentation.
Implement strategies based on business needs, long-term objectives, and creative design.
Provide technical guidance to AEM developers on best practices for both front-end and back-end development.
Perform hands-on coding when necessary.
Provide architectural input on server environment configuration, clustering, caching, CDN usage, and security.
Lead project teams of 10+ AEM developers across onsite and remote global locations.
Contribute to collateral development for efficient AEM project implementation.