Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Lead Developer

Quick Facts

• Role: Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Lead Developer

• Location: Onsite in Milpitas, CA / Irvine, CA

• Employment: Contract

Description

Lead the design, development, and implementation of enterprise-scale digital experience solutions in the commerce domain using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). Provide hands-on AEM technical leadership across architecture, component development, integrations, and cloud-based deployments, while mentoring developers and collaborating with business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

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

• Review code, mentor developers, and ensure adherence to development standards.

• Drive technical design discussions and solution 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/HTML5/CSS3.

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

• Support AEM as a Cloud Service deployment and Adobe Cloud Manager pipelines.

• Optimize AEM applications for performance, scalability, security, and maintainability.

• Perform debugging, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis; ensure testing and deployment validations.

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, UX Designers, Business Analysts, and QA teams; participate in Agile ceremonies.

• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

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.

• AEM 6.x and AEM as a Cloud Service.

• Java and J2EE.

• Apache Sling, OSGi, and JCR.

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

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

• REST APIs and microservices architecture.

• Git, Maven, and Cloud Manager.

Benefits

Not specified in the posting.