This role pays more than
95%
of similar roles. Most pay
$176,506–$231,000
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$305k
versus about
$204k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Adobe
Adobe Inc. is a global software company known for creative and multimedia software products including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and its cloud-based Creative Cloud and Document Cloud suites. Industry: Creative & Digital Experience Software
Adobe currently has
218 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$187,100–$270,950
across 216 roles with salary data.
As a Principal Architect, you will drive the architectural evolution of the Enterprise Customer Experience platform and associated applications through innovative system design and technology advancements for Agentic AI solutions. You will partner with engineering, product, and business leaders to define architecture strategy, influence product direction, and deliver highly scalable systems that ensure data governance while supporting global-scale workloads. Your daily responsibilities include defining end-to-end system architectures for large-scale data management, leading architectural reviews, establishing standards for observability and resiliency, and mentoring senior engineers. You will work with microservices, APIs, platform engineering, and streaming data platforms like Kafka or Spark to develop Agentic AI tools and context-sensitive loops. This role solves complex problems in distributed systems and high-performance infrastructure to integrate AI-native services into the enterprise ecosystem while ensuring cost efficiency and technical excellence across organizational boundaries.
What does a Architect earn?
Median $235750 from 31 postings across 17 companies.
Agentic AI
Distributed Systems
Identity and Access Management
OAuth
OIDC
SAML
OPA
Rego
Cedar
Kafka
Spark
Cloud-Native Services
Data Governance
Security Architecture
Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI
Agentic AI
Microservices
APIs
Data Platforms
Event-Driven Architecture
C4 Model
Agile
SAFe
Performance Engineering