Senior Manager - AEM

Role Overview: As a Solution Architect specializing in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Sites and AEM Assets, your primary responsibility will be to lead the end-to-end solution architecture for projects, ensuring alignment with business goals. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate functional requirements into scalable, secure, and high-performance technical architectures. Additionally, you will guide technical teams during implementation phases, ensure adherence to best practices, and stay up to date with Adobe's evolving capabilities. Key Responsibilities: - Lead end-to-end solution architecture for projects built on AEM Sites and AEM Assets, ensuring alignment with business goals. - Translate functional requirements into scalable, secure, and high-performance technical architectures. - Define integration patterns between AEM and third-party platforms (e.g., DAMs, CRMs, commerce systems). - Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, business analysts, UI/UX designers, and enterprise architects. - Own the creation of architecture blueprints, solution design documents (SDDs), and estimation for AEM projects. - Guide technical teams during implementation phases and ensure adherence to AEM best practices and Adobe-recommended frameworks. - Support technical assessments, proof-of-concepts (POCs), and client workshops. - Stay up to date with Adobe's evolving capabilities (including AEM as a Cloud Service, Edge Delivery Services, and Headless CMS models). Qualifications Required: - 8+ years of experience in enterprise web/content management solutions. - 5+ years of hands-on experience in architecting and delivering solutions using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM Sites and AEM Assets). - Strong understanding of AEM architecture, templates, components, workflows, permissions, and content modeling. - Expertise in AEM deployment models (On-Prem, Adobe Managed Service, AEM as a Cloud Service). - Experience integrating AEM with tools such as Adobe Analytics, Target, Campaign, and third-party systems. - Strong understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JS), REST APIs, and headless CMS architecture. - Proven experience in stakeholder management and presenting architectural decisions to both technical and business audiences. Additional Details: It is good to have exposure to Adobe Content Supply Chain strategy and workflows, experience with Adobe Workfront, Creative Cloud, and integrations with AEM Assets, Adobe Certified Expert/Professional Architect certifications, and familiarity with agile delivery models and DevOps practices for AEM.,