Senior Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Developer/Architect

• Architect end-to-end headless solutions using AEM as a content source and React/Next.js for rendering.
• Design SSR and SSG architectures leveraging Next.js or similar frameworks for high-performance and SEO-friendly sites.
• Define and implement AEM Headless content models (Content Fragments, Models, and APIs) that support omnichannel delivery.
• Architect, develop, and maintain scalable AEM components following Adobe best practices and focusing on reusability.
• Lead AEM template, workflow, and dispatcher configurations, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Guide AEM Cloud implementations, ensuring alignment with Adobe's evolving cloud-native capabilities.
• Collaborate with system administrators, DevOps, and security teams on deployments, optimizations, and system upgrades.
• Serve as a technical leader, providing mentorship to developers and ensuring adherence to AEM development standards.
• Troubleshoot complex authoring, performance, and integration issues across the AEM platform.
• Oversee and optimize AEM integrations with Adobe CJA Analytics, Adobe Launch, and third-party services.
• Define and enforce security, accessibility, SEO, UX, and analytics best practices.
• Lead code reviews, technical design sessions, and solution architecture discussions.
• Maintain and evolve comprehensive technical documentation.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and product teams, aligning AEM capabilities with business goals.
• Provide leadership in Agile/Scrum environments, ensuring efficient sprint planning and execution.

This role is responsible for designing, building, and optimizing Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) solutions to power Arrow Digital's customer-focused digital experience. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in AEM architecture, component development, and cloud-based optimizations, with a deep understanding of best practices for security, performance, and scalability. This candidate should be experienced AEM Headless Architect with deep expertise in React-based Front End architectures, Server-Side Rendering (SSR), and API-driven integrations using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) as a pure headless CMS., * Significant hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM 6.x/AEM as a Cloud Service), including Sites, Assets (and optionally Forms).

• Strong Java/Java EE/OSGi/Apache Sling/HTL (Sightly) experience.
• Experience with building AEM components, templates, dialogs, services, workflows, scheduled jobs.
• Familiarity with Front End technologies: HTML5, CSS3/SCSS, JavaScript, client libraries, responsive design.
• Experience in integrating AEM with other systems: REST APIs/SOAP, CRM, marketing tools, identity management/SSO.
• Strong understanding of caching, dispatching, CDN, load balancing, performance tuning.
• Experience in upgrades/migrations of AEM or content migration (from Legacy systems).
• Strong design/architectural mindset: able to make high-level design decisions, tradeoffs, and document them.
• Good leadership, communication (both technical & non-technical), and team mentoring skills.
• Familiarity with DevOps/CI-CD pipelines, environment provisioning, monitoring, logging.
• Knowledge of security best practices (authentication, authorization, vulnerabilities).
• Experience in multi-site/multi-language (MSM), headless architecture, GraphQL/SPA front ends.

Education/Certifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Preferably AEM Architect or AEM Developer certification(s) from Adobe.
• Relevant certifications (eg, cloud/security) are a plus.

Nice-to-Have/Additional (Optional)

• Experience working in eCommerce platforms and integrations.
• Experience with Adobe Experience Cloud stack: Analytics, Target, Campaign, Launch, etc.
• Experience with micro-frontends or component-based architecture.
• Experience in large scale, globally distributed environments.
• Knowledge of modern Front End frameworks (React, Angular, Vue) especially in hybrid or headless AEM setups.
• Experience with AEMaaCS or AMS (Adobe Managed Services).