Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Lead Developer

Quick Facts

• Role: Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Lead Developer

• Focus: Enterprise digital experience solutions for the commerce domain

• Location: Milpitas, CA or Irvine, CA

• Engagement: Contract

Description

Lead the design, development, and implementation of enterprise-scale digital experience solutions using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). Provide technical leadership for AEM architecture, reusable component development, integrations, and cloud-based deployments while partnering with business stakeholders. Ensure performance, security, and maintainable delivery across the full AEM lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction, architectural guidance, and best practices for AEM implementations

• Review code, mentor developers, and enforce development standards

• Drive technical design discussions and architecture decisions

• Design and develop reusable AEM components, templates, workflows, and services

• Implement AEM Sites, Assets, Content Fragments, and Experience Fragments

• Develop custom OSGi services, Sling Models, Servlets, and workflows

• Configure AEM authoring, publishing, dispatcher, and replication environments

• Build responsive web components using HTL (Sightly), Vue.js, and JavaScript/HTML

• Integrate AEM with third-party systems (e.g., OpenSearch)

• Support AEM as a Cloud Service deployments and Adobe Cloud Manager pipelines

• Optimize for performance, scalability, security, and maintainability

• Debug, troubleshoot, and perform root cause analysis

• Ensure compliance with enterprise security and coding standards

• Conduct technical reviews, testing, and deployment validations

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, UX Designers, Business Analysts, and QA

• Participate in Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives)

Requirements

• 11+ years of hands-on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) development experience

• 5+ years of technical leadership or team lead experience

• Experience delivering enterprise CMS and digital experience platforms

• Proficiency with AEM 6.x and AEM as a Cloud Service

• Strong Java/J2EE and backend development experience (JCR, Apache Sling, OSGi)

• Proficiency with HTL (Sightly), HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and Vue.js

• Experience with AEM Sites, Assets, Workflows, MSM, Content Fragments, and Experience Fragments

• Experience with REST APIs and microservices architecture

• Experience with Git and Maven and Adobe Cloud Manager

Benefits

• Technical governance and development best practices

• Performance-optimized, scalable, and maintainable AEM solutions

• Successful cloud deployments and release management

• Team mentoring and technical leadership