Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Architect - Contract

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

• 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

What We're Looking For

• 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

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.