Adobe Creative Cloud Software Engineer

REQUIRED: Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph

LOCATION: Full-time onsite in McLean, VA

We are looking for an experienced Adobe Creative Cloud Software Engineer to help transform complex creative and publishing workflows into efficient, scalable automation solutions. In this role, you'll develop and maintain sophisticated scripts for Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, enabling teams to streamline document production, asset management, file processing, and content delivery.

Who We Are:

We offer advanced services in data science, data engineering, software engineering, AI solutions, cybersecurity, staff augmentation, and IT program management.

Passionate Integrity, Driven by Excellence

Ardent Principles offers a competitive salary range and a comprehensive, industry‑leading benefits package designed to support long‑term stability and employee well‑being. We provide more than a position—we offer a workplace committed to excellence, integrity, and mission‑focused impact. Our mission is to act as a bridge between satisfied clients and fulfilled employees, ensuring that your job and well-being are our top priorities because your satisfaction leads to the success of our clients.

Join us as we continue building the future of secure, high‑impact solutions.

Responsibilities

In this challenging yet rewarding role, you are an integral part of what brings our Company's mission to life. You must have the following required skills, certifications and demonstrated experience in and/or with:

• Developing and maintaining automation scripts for Adobe

Creative Cloud applications.

• Developing scripts for Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop.
• Advanced proficiency in JavaScript/ExtendScript and demonstrated experience using Adobe application-specific scripting interfaces and object models.
• Working with Adobe UXP, CEP, or other Adobe extensibility

technologies.

• Ability to develop, modify, debug, test, document, and maintain production-quality Adobe scripts.
• Automating complex production workflows involving document creation or modification, graphics and asset manipulation, file processing, and document export.
• Troubleshooting scripts following Adobe Creative Cloud application updates, operating-system changes, changes to source documents, and changes to production workflows, and assessing the impact of Adobe Creative

Cloud version changes on existing automation.

• Ability to analyze existing/legacy Adobe scripts, identify

defects or performance issues, and modify or refactor scripts while preserving required functionality.

• Implementing appropriate error handling, validation,

logging, and recovery mechanisms in automation scripts.

• Developing scripts that interact with web APls, local

file systems, directories, and common production file formats.

• Demonstrated experience with software development lifecycle practices, including requirements analysis, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, and

defect resolution.

• Using source-code/version-control systems such as Git

or an equivalent technology.

• Diagnosing and resolving production defects within established service or project timelines.
• Developing maintainable, modular, and documented code.
• Creating technical documentation describing script architecture, dependencies, configuration, installation, operation, and known limitations.
• Developing test cases and conduct functional and regression testing.

Skills

Other skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not mandatory to perform the work, include:

• Adobe lnDesign Server
• Working with automated build, deployment, or testing

processes.

• Supporting large-scale publishing, digital media, graphic production, or prepress environments.
• Maintaining enterprise-level or mission-critical Adobe automation.
• Sharing of files between lnDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
• Automated generation of graphics, charts and tables for placement in lnDesign or Illustrator.
• Authoring Adobe plugins.
• Automated processing of linked assets.
• Coordinating file naming, directory, and asset-management processes.
• Batch processing across multiple Adobe applications.
• Integrating Adobe scripting with external files or structured data sources.

Benefits

SCHEDULE:

This is a full-time position with consultants expected to be available and working onsite in McLean, VA during core hours.

Ready to take the next step in your career? Join us and be part of a team dedicated to driving positive change through technology. Apply now with our easy 3-minute, mobile-friendly initial application process. Your future starts here!