Software Engineering Group Manager - Marketing Adobe Platforms

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and execution for Adobe Marketing platforms across multiple crews, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, performant, and enterprise ready.
• Serve as the primary technical decision authority for Adobe related engineering, including architecture patterns, integration strategies, and platform standards.
• Drive modern engineering practices across Adobe development (API first design, event driven integrations, CI/CD, cloud native patterns, performance optimization).
• Partner closely with Enterprise Architecture and Security to ensure compliance, data protection, and governance without slowing delivery.
• Lead and grow ~6 Adobe focused engineering crews, providing clear technical direction, prioritization, and execution discipline.
• Ensure crews are aligned to a shared target architecture and are delivering incrementally toward that vision.
• Actively manage technical dependencies, cross crew integration points, and delivery risk, intervening early where needed.
• Balance platform evolution with near term delivery commitments, avoiding both over engineering and short term fixes.
• Translate marketing and product intent into clear, executable technical plans with well defined success criteria.
• Establish and enforce “ready to execute” standards (architecture readiness, non functional requirements, dependency clarity) before teams commit to delivery.
• Use PI Planning, Demo Days, and execution reviews as decision points, not status updates.
• Drive predictable delivery through strong upfront engineering rigor and transparent trade off management.
• Build a high performing engineering culture grounded in accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
• Coach senior and mid level engineers, tech leads, and architects to raise the bar on design quality, code health, and system thinking.
• Identify skill gaps (e.g., Adobe specialization, data enablement, integration engineering) and proactively address them through hiring, upskilling, or vendor strategy.
• Act as a technical mentor and escalation point for complex engineering challenges.
• Partner with Product, Marketing, Data, Platform, and Operations leaders to align technology execution with business outcomes, not just platform adoption.
• Represent Adobe engineering in enterprise forums, articulating technical trade offs, risks, and recommendations clearly to senior leadership.
• Influence roadmap decisions by grounding discussions in engineering reality, platform constraints, and long term sustainability.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with significant depth in enterprise platforms or complex distributed systems.
• Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams or crews delivering large scale, mission critical platforms.
• Strong hands on background with modern web architectures, APIs, cloud platforms, and integration patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a technical authority, making architectural decisions and guiding teams through ambiguity.
• Experience working in regulated, security conscious environments with strong governance requirements.
• Direct experience with Adobe Experience Cloud (AEM, AEP/RT CDP, AJO, Assets, Workfront) or equivalent enterprise digital platforms. (Preferred)
• Experience modernizing or scaling marketing, personalization, or customer engagement platforms. (Preferred)
• Background in data driven systems, event streaming, or real time decisioning integrations. (Preferred)
• Strong track record of transformational engineering leadership, not just steady state operations. (Preferred)