Lead AEM Developer

ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

ASSA ABLOY Group seeks an experienced AEM architect/developer to design enterprise-grade AEM solutions with upstream/downstream integrations. You will translate business requirements into scalable technical designs, lead development, and mentor junior engineers.

Experience with multi-tenant AEM deployments, inline analytics, and personalization is highly valued. Strong collaboration and communication are essential to deliver high-quality outcomes.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with AEM components, templates, and asset libraries.
• Experience with complex AEM integrations across upstream/downstream systems.
• Strong understanding of tagging, analytics, and personalization in AEM.
• Proven ability to guide architecture and development standards.

Responsibilities

• Design and define technical approaches to meet business requirements, and translate them into AEM solutions with the team.
• Ensure delivery of enterprise-level AEM integration and development.
• Mentor junior resources and contribute to architectural guidelines.
• Lead discovery sessions and translate requirements into technical designs.

Skills

AEM Components

Editable Templates

Client Libraries

Taxonomy

Metadata Management

Replication

Workflows

Tagging & Campaigns

Third-Party Integrations

Dispatcher Configuration

Magento / Salesforce Commerce Cloud

AEM Certifications

Code Reviews & Coding Standards

Tools

Sling mappings & URL rewriting

Online Marketing Components (Targeting, Personalization)

Scripting (React/Sightly/JS)

Job description

Role / Responsibilities

• Design & define technical approaches to achieve business requirements, review with technical leader board, documents and develops the solution along with the team.
• Ensures the delivery and success of AEM enterprise-level integration and development involving upstream and downstream systems.
• Participates in gathering of technical and functional requirements from business teams during discovery phase and translate it into AEM solution and document it.
• Create development approach along with team and present it for approval with technical leader board along with efforts.
• Should be hand on AEM features and functionality to develop custom solution including back end integration and ready to develop them along with development team.
• Should be creative and OOTB thinker to bring best practices in development approaches.
• Suggest alternative technical solutions to meet business requirements more efficiently and/or with greater reusability and/or long term solution.
• Perform reviews and provide inputs/directions to the development team during design and development phase.
• Contributes to architectural decisions and guidelines for development teams to ensure compliances.
• Experience and exposure in agile methodologies.
• Drive project scope and timeline definition based on solution and requirements.
• Excellent communication skills and customer relationship building skills.

Technical Skills

• Extensive and strong hands on experience of AEM Components, editable Templates, Client Libraries, Taxonomy, metadata management, Forward and Reverse Replication, Workflows, Content Publishing, Tagging, Campaigns, Analytics and Targeting.
• Experienced with third party integrations e.g. Search Integrations, Authentication Handlers, Web services Integrations, CRM Integrations, CDN Integrations, etc.
• Hands on experience in dispatcher configuration mainly sling mapping, vhost and url rewrite etc…
• Experience working with E-Commerce platforms is highly desirable (e.g. Magento, SalesForce Commerce Cloud etc.).
• Good understanding of integration patterns and content-centric application development patterns using AEM, Search, Commerce package or other platforms.
• Good understanding of AEM capabilities including Multi-site manager and Blueprinting, and the use of Online marketing components such as advanced targeting/ personalization, and multi-variate testing.
• Should have configured and designed AEM multi-tenant solutions and delivered it.
• Should have coached and mentored junior technical resources; own responsibility for ongoing technical development of technical resources on AEM projects.
• Designed and implemented tagging and data layers for complex analytics scenarios, content targeting and personalization scenarios.
• Experience in performing product and technology research and analysis to formulate solutions to business specific requirements.
• Experience in implementing, enhancing, and troubleshooting AEM installations and administration issues.
• Should have conducted code reviews for ongoing projects to ensure optimal code quality and appropriate design patterns are used.
• Should have Employed, promoted and enforced strong coding standards for security, efficiency, readability and reuse.
• Having one or more of the following certifications is a plus. ACE – AEM Architect, AEM Developer, Adobe AEM Advanced developer.

Experience

• Overall 10+ years of experience in delivering enterprise solutions.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience developing with AEM Touch UI (version 6.4 and higher, As a Cloud Service will be preferred).
• Minimum 6+ years solution designing & executing AEM sites build:
  • Editable Template
  • Touch UI Components (React/Sightly/JSP/Java/Angular)
  • Servlet, Services, Third Party Integration
  • Server side caching build (symphony, EHcache etc…)
  • Context Hub and campaign
  • Sling models and exposure
  • Experience and content fragment
  • Context aware configuration (OSGI configuration)
  • Styling system/Multitenant architecture
  • MSM (Blueprint, Live copy, Language copy)
  • Replication and triggering jobs or event on activation/deactivation
  • Dispatcher configuration
  • Front end and server side debugging and fixing issue
  • Performance improvement and SEO debugging and tracking
• Experience with Analytics tools like google analytics or adobe analytics.
• Experience with targeting tools like Adobe Target or double click etc…
• Experience with Tagging system like google tag manager or adobe launch.
• Experience with eCommerce platform Magento aka Adobe commerce will be plus.
• Experience with integrating SalesForce will be plus.
• Experience with integrating Product management system will be plus.
• Experience utilizing BitBucket, GitHub, Jira and Confluence.
• Experience with cloud offerings as a hosting platform.
• Experience on customizing GDPR presentation.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability with a commitment to deliver quality outcomes that balance technical and business goals.
• Broad web and digital knowledge with an aptitude for troubleshooting and problem solving.

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