Description

Must Have for this role:

- We are looking for Strong AEM Engineer who has hands-on development and architecture experience with Adobe Experience Manager.
- Someone with extensive experience with AEM as a Cloud Service, including AEM Sites and Assets.
- Strong hands on experience with AEM Cloud Manager, CI/CD pipelines, deployment patterns, code quality gates and cloud-native AEM architecture.
- Need strong knowledge of Java, Apache Sling, OSGi, JCR, Oak, Dispatcher and established AEM development practices.
- This person will be working with cross functional teams with engineering managers and technical leads to ensure architecture decisions are understood and consistently implemented.
- Person who comes with the experience working with eCommerce platforms such as Adobe Commerce, Magento or Salesforce Commerce Cloud is preferred.
- Need minimum 10 years of experience into AEM development.
- Bachelor’s degree is nice to have.

Responsibilities:

- As a Lead AEM Developer / Architect, you will provide high quality solutions to meet digital commerce and marketing needs in the implementation, enhancement, and support of features on a cloud-native AEM platform.
- Translate business requirements into technical architecture, content models, component designs, workflows, integration patterns and AEM as a Cloud Service solutions.
- Lead architecture and solution design across AEM Sites, Assets, Forms and AEM as a Cloud Service.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership throughout solution design, development, testing, deployment and production support.




- Work with the team to manage the transition from the current on-premises AEM platform to AEM as a Cloud Service while maintaining the existing platform until the migration is complete.
- Help determine when to use traditional AEM Sites, headless AEM, hybrid delivery or Adobe Edge Delivery Services.
- Review solution designs, pull requests and critical code changes to ensure alignment with architecture and engineering standards.
- Partner with product and business stakeholders to evaluate scope, feasibility, tradeoffs and delivery options.
- Partner with engineering managers and technical leads to ensure architecture decisions are understood and consistently implemented.
- Participate in root-cause analysis for critical incidents and ensure architectural and systemic issues are addressed.
- Maintain awareness of Adobe’s product direction and evaluate when recent capabilities can provide meaningful business value.
- Embrace a shift-left approach to software quality by using unit, integration and end-to end test automation to meet quality objectives.

Qualifications:

- Ten or more years of hands-on development and architecture experience with Adobe Experience Manager.
- Extensive experience with AEM as a Cloud Service, including AEM Sites and Assets.



•Strong hands-on knowledge of Java, Apache Sling, OSGi, JCR, Oak, Dispatcher and established AEM development practices.
- Experience with AEM Cloud Manager, CI/CD pipelines, deployment patterns, code quality gates and cloud-native AEM architecture.
- Deep understanding of AEM integration patterns and content-centric application development.
- Knowledge of cloud architecture, CDN strategies, caching, application security and web performance practices.
- Experience designing and integrating APIs and enterprise systems with AEM.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical decisions to engineering, product and business stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership across multiple teams and complex initiatives.
- Experience supporting global, multilingual digital platforms.
- Commitment to engineering quality, operational excellence and continuous improvement.

Nice to have:

- Experience working with eCommerce platforms such as Adobe Commerce, Magento or Salesforce Commerce Cloud.
- Experience integrating AEM with the broader Adobe Experience Cloud, including Adobe Analytics, Adobe Experience Platform Data Collection, formerly Adobe Launch, and Adobe Target.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services.
- Familiarity with search technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr or Lucene.
- Experience with build and deployment platforms such as GitHub Actions or CircleCI.
- Experience with Adobe Edge Delivery Services, headless AEM or hybrid content-delivery architectures.

📌 Lead AEM Developer / Architect (Canada)
🏢 UnivEdge Consulting
📍 Canada