Lead AEM Developer

ASSA ABLOY Group; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

ASSA ABLOY Group in Chennai seeks an AEM Core Tech Lead to design, develop and deliver AEM and integration projects across the lifecycle, guiding a team of developers and collaborating with partners. The role requires strong AEM expertise, hands-on development, and the ability to translate business needs into robust technical solutions in an agile setup.

The candidate should have a proven track record delivering enterprise-scale web solutions, while mentoring junior resources and ensuring best

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with AEM components, templates, client libraries and workflows.
• Experience with third party integrations e.g. search/authentication/CRM integrations.
• Strong understanding of deployment across Cloud and on-prem environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and define technical approaches to meet business needs with the team.
• Ensure delivery of AEM enterprise-level integration and development across upstream/downstream systems.
• Gather requirements from business teams and translate into AEM solutions.
• Lead development approach and present to stakeholders for approval.
• Hands-on development of AEM features and backend integrations with the team.
• Propose best practices and alternative solutions for efficiency and reusability.
• Guide design and development reviews and contribute to architectural decisions.
• Mentor junior resources and own ongoing technical development on AEM projects.
• Design tagging and data layers for analytics and personalization.
• Experience in CI/CD, GDPR considerations and performance optimization.

Skills

AEM Components

Touch UI

Integration patterns

Agile methodologies

Team leadership

Code reviews

Stakeholder management

Jira/Confluence

Cloud deployment

Tools

Jira

Confluence

GitHub

Bitbucket

Job description

Job Description:

The AEM Core Tech Lead will be responsible for handling AEM and related Integration platform projects into design and delivering through the entire life cycle in collaboration partner’s team. This role will be also responsible to work with team of developer’s and technically guide them to deliver the requirements. This role will also be responsible for supporting existing implementation via enhancements and bug fixes.

In addition to strong technical knowledge of the AEM and integrated platform this position requires strong communication and interpersonal skills to build and maintain trusted relationships with various business stack holders and partners. Work will be managed with little supervision and requires initiative (ideas, best practices etc…), organization, and judgment.

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.)
• Extensive experience in application deployment (Cloud deployment/In-house deployment)
• 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 designing CI/CD process
• 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.

We are the ASSA ABLOY Group
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As an employer, we value results – not titles, or backgrounds. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally.

As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.

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