Senior Data Engineer & Architect

Job Details

Location:San Jose, CA

Job Type:Full-Time

Reporting to:Senior Manager, Data & Analytics Platform Engineering

About the Role

The Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) Product Success Engineering team is hiring a Senior Data Engineer & Architect to help build and scale the infrastructure that powers product adoption insights, customer retention analytics, system performance monitoring and operational intelligence across Adobe.

In this role, you will design and build reliable, scalable, cloud-native data systems while contributing to platform-wide architectural direction and standards. You’ll collaborate closely with Data Scientists, Analytics Engineers, Solution Architects and Product partners to translate evolving business needs into durable data solutions that support analytics and machine learning use cases.

This opportunity is ideal for someone who enjoys hands-on engineering while influencing broader data architecture strategy.

What You’ll Do

Design & Evolve the Data Platform

• Partner with engineering leadership to develop and evolve enterprise-scale data architecture across warehouses, lakes and modern data platforms.
• Develop logical and physical data models crafted to enable analytics and ML use cases, including dimensional models and optimized schemas.
• Contribute to platform standards, reference architectures and documentation across ingestion, transformation, governance and analytics enablement.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Cloud Infrastructure teams to align with security, compliance, performance and cost optimization guidelines.

Build Scalable Data Pipelines

• Design, develop and maintain reliable ETL/ELT pipelines integrating data from usage, clickstream, entitlement, cost and support systems.
• Build modular, reusable pipeline frameworks using orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect.
• Optimize data processing workflows for performance, scalability and cost efficiency using distributed systems (e.g., Spark, Beam).
• Work with Data Scientists and Analytics Engineers to operationalize data products and ML-ready datasets.

Strengthen Governance, Quality & Reliability

• Design and implement scalable frameworks for managing and improving data integrity, including cataloging, lineage tracking, access controls and automated validation processes to ensure trusted, production-grade data.
• Establish and continuously improve reliability standards for data services, defining and tracking key SLOs such as freshness, pipeline success rates and availability through proactive monitoring and alerting.
• Maintain clear metadata, documentation and data definitions to improve discoverability, enable self-service analytic and support consistent operational excellence across the platform.

What You’ll Bring

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in data engineering or software engineering, including building and operating production data platforms.
• Experience contributing to data architecture decisions at the system or platform level.

Technical Expertise

• Strong experience with cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift), including schema design and performance tuning.
• Experience building production-grade pipelines using orchestration frameworks (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect) and distributed processing tools (Spark, Beam).
• Deep understanding of ETL/ELT patterns, dimensional modeling and analytics dataset design.
• Experience implementing data governance and quality practices, including lineage, validation and role-based access controls.
• Proficiency in Scale or Java, plus experience Python & SQL
• Experience working with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience defining data modeling standards, naming conventions and data contracts.
• Familiarity with event-driven and streaming systems (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis).

Communication & Collaboration

• Ability to translate business questions into scalable data models and platform capabilities.
• Ability to clearly explain data and architectural concepts to diverse audiences.

Nice to Have

• Experience in B2B SaaS, product analytics, or customer success environments.
• Hands-on experience with modern data stack tools (dbt, Great Expectations, Atlan, Collibra).
• Exposure to MLOps concepts such as feature pipelines and training datasets.

Why Join This Team

• Develop the architecture of a critical data platform used across Adobe.
• Combine hands-on engineering with meaningful architectural influence.
• Work with modern cloud and data technologies at enterprise scale.
• Collaborate with experienced Data Science, Analytics and Platform Engineering teams.
• If you’re passionate about building reliable, scalable data systems and influencing platform strategy, we’d love to hear from you.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.