AEM Technical Lead

Morson Edge; Eccles; Remote; GBP 136,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Morson Edge is seeking an AEM Technical Lead for a remote Inside IR35 contract to drive the migration of a global website onto an Adobe-based, cloud-native digital experience platform. You will act as the technical authority across Technology Services for the web migration, ensuring a stable, scalable and secure platform.

The role focuses on end-to-end transformation using AEM, RT-CDP/AEP, Journey Optimizer and Commerce, with integrations to Salesforce, SAP and cloud providers.

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical or architectural transformation.
• End-to-end custom portal-to-Adobe migration experience.
• Knowledge of Adobe Experience Cloud, AEM, RT-CDP/AEP, Journey Optimizer and Commerce.
• Experience with integrations: Salesforce, SAP, Azure or AWS.
• IAM, B2B/B2C authentication and global rollout experience.

Responsibilities

• Owns the technical architecture and migration roadmap for the Adobe migration project.
• Define stable, secure, scalable platform with controlled migration risk.
• Align programme leadership, Adobe, partners and platform teams; manage dependencies and escalations.
• Oversee integration, identity, data migration and deployment activities.
• Ensure security, performance and support readiness across global deployment.

Job description

AEM Technical Lead

Location: Remote

Contract: Inside IR35

Day rate: Up to £850 per day

Duration: 12 months

Start date: ASAP

Key Skills: Adobe Experience Cloud, Implementation, Adobe Experience Manager, CMS, architecture

The Client is a leading supply chain company who have been operating for over 80 years with around 12,000 employees globally, in over 60 countries.

The Programme you will be on focuses on is replacing its current platform with a modern, cloud-native digital experience foundation anchored in the Adobe Experience Cloud / Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) ecosystem.

Here you will be the Technical authority within Technology Services for the custom Website to Adobe migration, establishing a stable, scalable, secure and supportable global platform.

Key Accountabilities/Outcomes

• Milestones and architecture aligned, with a clear technical roadmap & design around
  • Adobe Experience Manager (AEM): Serving as the core content management and digital experience delivery layer for web and customer portal
  • Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform (RT-CDP / AEP B2B): Used for real-time customer profiling, event ingestion using Experience Data Models (XDM), and unified segmentation.
  • Adobe Journey Optimizer (AJO): Planned for customer journey orchestration, messaging, and multi-channel engagement workflows.
  • Adobe Commerce (Adobe CE): Evaluated alongside headless microservices for transactional and order management capabilities.
  • Supporting AEP Tooling: Leveraging native testing and operational tooling such as AEP Assurance for event validation and SDK debugging.
• Stable, secure, performant platform with controlled migration and deployment risk
• Clear dependencies, owners and escalation routes, plus effective partner-to-support transition
• Align programme leadership, Adobe, partner and platform teams
• Own risks, dependencies, escalations and executive technical advice
• Integration, identity, data migration and deployment
• Security, performance and support readiness

Experience:

• Strong back in leading technical or architectural transformation
• End-to-end custom portal-to-Adobe migration
• Commerce, Journey Optimizer, Target, CDP and Journey Analytics
• Salesforce, SAP, LivePerson, automation and Azure or AWS integrations
• IAM, B2B/B2C authentication, data migration, global rollout and support