Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Adobe Experience Platform

About the role

Adobe Experience Platform powers real-time customer experiences for large enterprises, and this Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) role sits at the intersection of solution architecture, technical consulting and hands-on engineering. Embedded with Adobe's most strategic EMEA customers, you work directly with their teams to solve complex platform challenges, design scalable architectures and build what is needed to unblock adoption and expansion. You operate inside autonomous, cross-functional Customer Pods, leading with architecture and closing the gap between customer needs and platform delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with strategic customers on their architecture, workflows, security requirements and business objectives
• Turn customer problems into scalable solution designs, reference architectures and working prototypes
• Troubleshoot production issues, from data ingestion and identity resolution to journey orchestration and audience activation
• Design and validate end-to-end enterprise solutions across AEP, RTCDP, AJO and adjacent Adobe systems
• Lead architecture workshops, health checks and technical deep-dives
• Rapidly prototype and iterate, using AI-assisted tools as a standard part of execution
• Feed field patterns back into the product roadmap and own the technical relationship with assigned accounts

Required profile

• Typical background of 8-15+ years across solution architecture, software engineering, technical consulting or customer-facing engineering
• Ability to connect customer problems and business goals with practical technical solutions
• Comfortable prototyping, debugging and iterating, with awareness of how distributed systems behave at scale
• Experience navigating complex, regulated environments such as financial services or healthcare

Required skills

• AEP, RTCDP, AJO and Adobe Experience Cloud products (nice to have)
• Enterprise architecture, API design, AWS and Azure
• Event-driven architectures, streaming pipelines, data lakes
• Observability, SLOs and production monitoring
• Nice to have: CDP, MDM or martech platforms, identity resolution, workflow orchestration (Temporal, Step Functions)

The expected pay range for Romania is 355,000 to 514,000 RON per year, depending on knowledge, skills and experience. Adobe also offers an Annual Incentive Plan (AIP) bonus and benefits such as medical, dental and vision coverage.