AEM - UI EDS - Technical Lead Frontend Development Lead

Orion Innovation; Ernakulam; On-site; INR 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Orion Innovation in India is seeking a Technical Lead - Frontend to guide end-to-end delivery of customer web platforms using modern front-end stacks. You will shape scope, timelines, and technical solutions, mentor developers, and ensure best practices across projects.

The role requires strong experience in CMS front-end delivery, JAM stack, and modern tooling; you will work closely with clients, drive adoption, and lead design-like collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Experience with CMS frontend delivery and template/editor roles.
• Strong knowledge of responsive design, JAM stack, and modern tooling.
• Proficient in JavaScript, ES6+, and web performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of client web platforms and CMS templates.
• Define scope, timelines, and technical solutions with stakeholders.
• Mentor developers, review PRs, and enforce best practices.
• Collaborate with sales on offerings and pre-sales inquiries.
• Research trends to improve design/front-end workflows.
• Guide content teams on platform usage and authoring usability.

Skills

JavaScript

HTML5

CSS3

Responsive design

JAMstack

Web performance

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

Design systems

Accessibility WCAG

Content authoring

Atomic design

Headless CMS

Tools

Git

Webpack

Babel

NPM

Sass

Less

Adobe XD

Sketch

Figma

Job description

Job Description:

Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

Role: AEM - UI EDS - Technical Lead / Frontend development Lead

Experience: 10+ years

Location: Bangalore

Job Overview:

We are looking to employ a passionate, enthusiastic, and consulting focused candidate into the India professional services team. As a Technical Lead, you will develop and implement customer web platforms using front end technologies. This involves defining scope, timelines, technical solutions and leading the end to end delivery. You will drive customer communication, engage customers, facilitate development, ensure adoption and adherence to best practices and mentor team of developers. The ideal candidate is customer-centric, collaborative, and fosters inclusivity, authenticity, and trust across teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in Discovery sessions to identify business priorities and expectations of authoring experience in CMS.
• Lead workshops between creative, content teams, and development teams in relation to template and component identification and requirements, and governance strategy between development and authoring tasks.
• Collaborate and work closely with customer and manage expectations, ensure clear communication, define scope, agree on timelines and manage client dependencies.
• Gather business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Lead story/task grooming sessions and evaluate the dependencies and prerequisites for the tasks.
• Lead greening sessions and ability to solution and estimate efforts.
• Design, build, and maintain highly reusable JavaScript, HTML and CSS code.
• Review PRs and manage quality of development, coach and mentor team on development skills and ensure adherence to best practices.
• Support client content team on platform usage, guidance and support.
• Manage feature/product demos to customer.
• Lead retrospective workshop at conclusion of project; capture and up-level actionable recommendations.
• Collaborate with Sales on GTM service offerings and pre-sales inquiries.
• Coordinate customer feedback with product teams
• Research trends for design & front-end technologies to support improving design/front-end workflows.

Technical Skills:

• Experience with any known CMS with functional knowledge of template editor and content author roles.
• Expertise in responsive design and mobile application design.
• Expertise in front-end development, especially JAM stack
• In depth knowledge in HTML5, CSS3 (Less, Sass is a plus), knowledge of BEM methodology is preferred.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Detailed knowledge of JavaScript (ES6 is a plus).
• Experience with Atomic design paradigm is a plus.
• Expertise in Design systems, Style guides, Pattern libraries
• Familiarity with RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
• Familiarity with Micro Front End concepts and Headless Implementation would be a plus.
• Understanding of Web Accessibility WCAG guidelines.
• Understanding of content authoring and ensuring usability and intuitiveness for a content author while using a CMS.
• Understanding of information architecture and creating appropriate content structuring
• Familiarity in Adobe XD, or other design tools such as Sketch or Figma.
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization.
• Deep understanding of core web vitals, web performance optimization techniques and best practices.

Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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