AEM Developer

Location: Chennai | Mumbai | Pune | Bangalore

NP: Immediate joiner to 15days

Job Summary:

The AEM Developer Lead will design, develop, and optimize AEM-based solutions, focusing on AEM Sites, Assets, Forms, and AEM Guides for structured DITA content management. This role demands advanced proficiency in AEM’s core frameworks (Sling, OSGi, JCR), AEM components (AEM 6.5 AMS hosted), and integration with enterprise systems. The lead will do technical implementations, perform effective code reviews and work with development team to deliver performant AEM solutions.

Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and deploy AEM solutions meeting the business requirements including AEM Sites, Assets, Forms, and AEM Guides for structured content authoring and DITA management.

Architect reusable AEM components, templates, and content fragments ensuring modularity and scalability.

Implement and customize AEM Guides features and workflows, including DITA specialization, metadata management, DITA-OT integration, XML-based content authoring and output generation for multi-channel publishing, optimize DITA metadata for searchability and localization.

Develop and manage AEM workflows, including custom workflow steps, dynamic participant steps and process automation for content approval and publishing.

Conduct performance optimization, deliver performance-optimized content delivery, optimize JCR queries, asset renditions, and page rendering for low-latency content delivery. Tune AEM Dispatcher and Oak indexes for high-performance content retrieval and scalability.

Perform effective code reviews and implement AEM best practices and AEM Guides standards, ensure static code analysis findings addressed and the delivered code meet quality gates criteria including code coverage, security, reliability, maintainability, coding standards and performance.

Troubleshoot complex technical issues – workflow failures, publishing slowness and failures, integration bottlenecks, ensuring system reliability.

Monitor AEM performance using tools like New Relic, Splunk and Adobe’s observability frameworks and assist in troubleshooting issues analysing the metrics and logs.

Integrate AEM with Adobe Experience Cloud tools (e.g. Adobe Analytics) and third-party systems via REST APIs, GraphQL or Event-Driven Architecture.

Configure and optimize AEM Dispatcher for caching, load balancing, and performance tuning, ensuring low-latency content delivery.

Manage AEM instances (Author, Publish, and Preview) across AMS AEM environments including repository maintenance (Apache Jackrabbit Oak) and CRX package management.

Support deployment, Implement CI/CD pipelines using Maven and Git for automated builds, deployments, and testing of AEM applications.

Stay current with AEM advancements, including AEM upgrades, updates and AEM Guides feature releases.