AEM Full Stack Developer Lead

Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and deploy AEM solutions meeting the business requirements including AEM Sites, Assets, Forms, and AEM Guides for structured content authoring and DITA management.

Architect reusable AEM components, templates, and content fragments ensuring modularity and scalability.

Implement and customize AEM Guides features and workflows, including DITA specialization, metadata management, DITA-OT integration, XML-based content authoring and output generation for multi-channel publishing, optimize DITA metadata for searchability and localization.

Develop and manage AEM workflows, including custom workflow steps, dynamic participant steps and process automation for content approval and publishing.

Conduct performance optimization, deliver performance-optimized content delivery, optimize JCR queries, asset renditions, and page rendering for low-latency content delivery. Tune AEM Dispatcher and Oak indexes for high-performance content retrieval and scalability.

Perform effective code reviews and implement AEM best practices and AEM Guides standards, ensure static code analysis findings addressed and the delivered code meet quality gates criteria including code coverage, security, reliability, maintainability, coding standards and performance.

Troubleshoot complex technical issues - workflow failures, publishing slowness and failures, integration bottlenecks, ensuring system reliability.

Monitor AEM performance using tools like New Relic, Splunk and Adobe's observability frameworks and assist in troubleshooting issues analyzing the metrics and logs.

Integrate AEM with Adobe Experience Cloud tools (e.g. Adobe Analytics) and third-party systems via REST APIs, GraphQL or Event-Driven Architecture. 

Configure and optimize AEM Dispatcher for caching, load balancing, and performance tuning, ensuring low-latency content delivery.

Manage AEM instances (Author, Publish, and Preview) across AMS AEM environments including repository maintenance (Apache Jackrabbit Oak) and CRX package management.

Support deployment, Implement CI/CD pipelines using Maven and Git for automated builds, deployments, and testing of AEM applications.

Stay current with AEM advancements, including AEM upgrades, updates and AEM Guides feature releases.

Required Skills:

AEM:

10 + years of extensive development experience on AEM (AEM 6.x, latest major version AEM 6.5) including Components, Assets, Forms, Guides.

Advanced proficiency in Apache Sling, OSGi and JCR (Apache Jackrabbit Oak) for content management.

Experience with AEM's SPA Editor, Content Services, and GraphQL for headless architectures.

Extensive experience developing custom features and custom workflows meeting the business requirements.

AEM Guides:

5+ years implementing AEM Guides for DITA-based content authoring, including DITA maps, topics, and specialization.

Proficiency in DITA-OT for output formats and integration with translation.

Experience with AEM Guides' metadata management, versioning, and content reuse strategies.

Familiarity with XML editors (e.g. Oxygen XML Editor) for DITA content creation and validation.

Java and J2EE:

10+ years of expertise designing, coding and developing applications on Java

Expert-level Java including Servlets, JSP, and OSGi bundle development.

Proficiency in Sling Models, WCMUsePojo, and Java-based AEM customizations.

Experience of multithreading and asynchronous design to enhance performance and responsiveness and improve user experience while dealing with resource-intensive tasks

Web Technologies:

Advanced skills in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and SPA frameworks (React) for AEM front-end integration.

Expertise in building responsive interfaces with Bootstrap and CSS

Integration Patterns:

Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs, GraphQL endpoints, and event-driven integrations.

Knowledge of microservices architectures using Spring Boot, Kubernetes, or OpenShift for AEM integrations.

Performance and Security:

Skills in JCR query optimization, Oak index configuration, and asset rendition management.

Expertise in secure coding practices, AEM configurations and compliance.

Deployment and Monitoring:

Experience of Branching strategy, code merge and code deployment using deployment and release pipelines

Experience of using monitoring tools like New Relic, Splunk, ELK for system performance and reviewing application logs to fix reported issues.

Development Tools:

Proficiency in Maven, Gradle, and Git for build and version control.

Experience of using AI Assistant tools like GitHub Copilot

Experience with testing frameworks (like Junit) and CI/CD tools, Cloud Manager

AEM Administration:

Experience in managing Author, Publish, and Preview instances, including CRXDE Lite, package management, and repository maintenance.

Preferred Qualifications:

Adobe Certified Expert - AEM Sites Lead Developer, AEM Architect

10+ years on AEM development including AEM Guides and 5 + years in a hands-on technical lead role.

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related fields"