Application Architect ($143,500 - $172,200)

Position Summary:

The Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Technical Architect‎ plays a critical role in leading the implementation and support of the Adobe Experience Manager platform for multiple divisions at Irvine Company. This position requires taking responsibility for robust customer-facing applications built over the years, encompassing complex business requirements and technology constraints. The ideal candidate should be passionate about user experiences and have a deep technical expertise of various AEM components such as Sites and Digital Asset Management (DAM) to ensure the success of numerous projects.

 

As a leader in the space and AEM subject matter expert, you will be collaborating with other architects, software engineers, product managers, and QA teams to build bug-free best-in-class solutions to impact our business.
 

Job Duties:

• Act as a point person, technical leader, and problem solver on various upcoming digital applications or those already in production.
• Provide guidance and operate as a trusted advisor for technical and design projects.
• Develop and oversee AEM templates, HTL/Sightly components, OSGI bundles, custom servlets, services, and DAM enhancements as part of your day-to-day activities.
• Diagnose and solve technical problems related to content management implementation.
• Conduct code reviews for ongoing projects to ensure optimal code quality and appropriate design patterns are used.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship features.
• Participate in creating clear and concise documentation for company applications and custom-built solutions.
• Give estimates for enhancements and bug fixes.
• Continuously evaluate and implement new technologies to impact the company.
• Translate customer experiences into clearly defined product requirements.
• Help create and maintain logically sequenced roadmaps.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications / Other Expectations:

• Bachelor of Science (BS) degree or equivalent experience
• Must have over 8 years of IT experience including at least 4 years working on AEM.
• Expertise in core web technologies, including DNS, HTTP, RESTful web services, and network fundamentals.
• Strong understanding of web experience best practices and design.
• Strong understanding of application security and governance best practices.
• Strong debugging skills including collaboration with peers.
• Self-starter, able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Up to date on the latest web application best practices.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and business stakeholders.
• Ability to effectively document business processes and apply technology to optimize and automate processes.

Other Qualifications:

Front-end

• Experience with front-end frameworks like Vue, React, or SPA implementations.
• Experience with CSS preprocessors, LESS, or SCSS.
• Experience with client- and server-side templating frameworks.
• Experience with front-end build systems like Webpack, Gulp, Grunt, etc.

Back-end

• Deep understanding of Java, Java EE, Servlets.
• Expertise in Maven build system.
• Experience with automated unit and integration testing.
• Experience with integration middleware.

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

• Strong AEM hands-on experience, including on-premise installations.
• Must have handled at least 2-3 large AEM implementations in AEM 6.x. in a technical architect and support role.
• Proficient in AEM foundational concepts, frameworks and related building blocks.
• Proficient knowledge of the end-to-end content lifecycle, web content management, content publishing/deployment, and delivery processes.
• Strong understanding of AEM security and permissions.
• Expertise in HTL template development.
• Expertise in Granite UI component development.
• Expertise in AEM Java APIs and annotations.
• Expertise in custom workflows.
• Expertise working with custom and OOB OSGI configurations.
• Expertise and strong knowledge about dispatcher configuration and best practices.

Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

• Proficient with Git source control.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Experience creating and contributing to product roadmaps.
• Experience analyzing and estimating software requirements.
• Familiarity with management tools like Jira, etc.

Special Experience Desired:

Front-end:

• Familiarity with VueJS
• Familiarity with Gulp

Back-end:

• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform, Heroku, or Cloudflare.
• Familiarity with Node.js

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM):

• Experience with AEM single sign-on integration.
• Experience with AEM as a Cloud Service.