Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced AEM Senior Developer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Adobe Experience Manager (AEMaaCS) development, with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience. This role requires a deep understanding of AEM architecture, best practices, and the ability to lead and mentor.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement solutions using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) for various digital projects.
- Lead the technical design and implementation of AEM components, templates, content fragments, experience fragments and workflows. including integrations with MarTech tools.
- Ensure SEO, accessibility, and performance best practices are embedded with the development process
- Collaborate with cross-functional marketing teams, business analysts, solution architects, and other developers to translate business requirements into technical specifications.
- Ensure the quality of code through unit testing, integration testing, and code reviews.
- Optimize AEM applications for performance, scalability, and security. Monitor and improve AEM environment performance and deployment processes (CDN, Dispatcher, Caching, etc)
- Stay up-to-date with the latest AEMaaCS features, headless CMS capabilities and industry best practices.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to AEM.
- Participate in the entire software development lifecycle, from conception to deployment.
- Hands-on, willing to adapt, work independently, and self starter
Required Skills
- Deep expertise in AEM and core components, including CRX, OSGi, JCR, Sling, Dispatcher and Apache Felix.
- AEM Cloud experience is a must. Proficiency in Java and OSGi-based development.
- Strong experience with front-end technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, and React/Angular.
- Experience in consuming Restful APIs. Expert knowledge and experience with JSON / XML / RESTful Web Services.
- Ability to fine tune AEM applications for optimal performance in AEMaaCS, focusing on code efficiency, caching strategies, dispatcher/CDN optimization and front-end performance (FEO, JS and CSS minification, image optimization). Familiarity with performance profiling and Cloud Manager metrics is a plus.
- Hands-on experience with Sightly (AEM Templating language) and CoralUI/TouchUI frameworks
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines (Adobe Cloud Manager, Github).
- Strong preference for proficiency in Java and object-oriented design principles, J2EE, Spring.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 8 years of hands-on experience with AEM development (AEM 6.5+ and above) with JavaScript, Angular JS/Angular and ReactJS
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Ability to translate responsive design into application architectures.
- Experience in building reusable, author-friendly components and templates for creating web applications.
- Proficient understanding code versioning tools such as GIT Repository required.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills. Strong sense of ownership and accountability with a commitment to delivering quality outcomes that balance technical and business goals.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in AEM Sites Developer or Architect.
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Preferably ETL experience in design, configuration, data mapping, extraction, transformation and loading in an extremely complex environment
- Experience in other CMS tools (Wordpress, Webflow, Contentful)
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and code versioning.
- Able to showcase a portfolio of your robust and dynamic content and experience fragments.
- Knowledge of SEO best practices and accessibility standards (WCAG, structured data, metadata).
- Broad web and digital knowledge, an aptitude for troubleshooting and problem solving as well as mentoring/guiding other members of the team.
