Adobe Edge Delivery Services Technical Lead

Socket.dev; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Solutions Architect to lead large-scale AEM implementations and migrations. You will steer architecture, delivery, and content-supply-chain initiatives across global client teams, bridging from traditional AEM to Edge Delivery and AI-accelerated tooling.

The role requires deep hands-on experience with AEM Sites, Assets, and Edge Delivery Services, plus strong leadership and client-facing skills. Travel 0–100% may be required.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years architecting and delivering full-lifecycle software/digital experience projects, including deep hands-on AEM Sites delivery.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience across Adobe Experience Manager (Sites and Assets) including AEMaaCS.
• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on Edge Delivery Services experience and front-end fundamentals understanding.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, architecture, development, testing, and deployment of AEM Sites on Edge Delivery Services.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to gather requirements and define deliverables.
• Mentor and guide global delivery teams and ensure high-quality architecture and code.
• Promote engineering rigor with TDD, CI, and detailed documentation across projects.
• Provide architectural guidance on environment configuration, caching, CDN usage, security, and governance.

Skills

AEM Sites

Edge Delivery Services

Architecting software

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Front-end fundamentals

Git-based dev workflow

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Adobe Experience Manager

Git

Lighthouse

Job description

We Are:

Accenture Adobe Business Group. What Accenture does best is UNLEASH the powers of emotion, empathy, and excitement at an enterprise scale to create the best experiences on the planet— for our clients and their customers. Now more than ever, the future belongs to those who ignite and propel the human experience. Those who turn innovation into action. Powered by creativity. Fuelled by data and technology. So it only makes sense that we made ourselves experts at unleashing the power of Adobe, the world’s most advanced customer-experience company. Because by combining passion, data, design thinking, and a dedicated global team of marketers, strategists, and technologists, singularly focused on creating the best experiences, Accenture makes it possible to realize the true potential of the Adobe platform.

You Are:

As an Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)Edge Delivery Services SolutionsArchitectyou will work closely with our clients on critical digital transformation programs which drive the customer experience, optimize costs, create efficiencies and deliver business outcomes. You will be responsible for the leadership, planning and management of assignedAEM relatedclient engagements and participate in all aspects of the lifecycle which includes estimating,requirements gathering, solution andtechnical design, implementation, documentation, testing, deployment and support of application developed for our clients.

The Work:

This is a hands-on delivery role.As a solution lead you will work in support of a client product owner, on large scale implementations. Accountable to a program leadership team you will be responsible for the successful delivery of AEM implementations as well as business enablement and migration work packages relating tocontent supply chaintechnology. This role requires a high-level of flexibility, but day to day responsibilities will typically include

• Organizing and facilitating discovery and requirement capture workshops

• Lead the design, architecture, development, testing and deployment of Adobe Experience Management (AEM)Sitesusing Edge Delivery Servicesand Assetssolutions.

• Working with the project manager to define project deliver approach

• You will work closely with clients, product owners, developers, system administrators, project managers, business analysts and end users to build state-of-the-assetcontent supply chain solutionsusing AdobeExperience Cloud products.

• Be the point person for implementation strategies based on business needs, long-term strategy, and creative design.

• Champion engineering rigor throughout all AEM projects by promoting concepts such as Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration and detailed documentation.

• Provide technical guidance to AEM developersand practitionersaround best practices in AEM developmentand configuration- both back-end and front-end execution.

• Be hands-on with the codeand configurationwhen needed

• Provide architectural guidance/input around environment configuration, caching, CDN usage, security, etc.

• Manage project teams of 10 or morepeoplein both onsite and remote, global locations.

• Lead the design, architecture, development, testing, and deployment of AEM Sites onEdge Delivery ServicesandDocument-based / Universal Editor authoring, bridging from traditional AEM Sites (AEM as a Cloud Service / on-prem) where clients are mid-migration.

• Define and leadClassic-AEM → Edge Delivery migrationstrategy: content supply chain modeling, template/block mapping, and large-scale automated content import.

• ChampionAI-accelerated delivery-apply AI-assisted development, migration, and content-authoring tooling to compress project timelines, and advise clients on adopting Adobe’s AI capabilities (Firefly, AEM AI Assistant, GenStudio, Adobe Experience Platform/AI Agents) within their content supply chain.

• Provide architectural guidance on environment configuration, caching, CDN/edge compute, performance (Core Web Vitals), security, and governance.

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements

What You Need:

• Minimum of 7 yearsarchitecting and delivering full-lifecycle software/digital experience projects, including deep hands-onAEM Sites(AEMaaCS and/or 6.x) delivery.

• Minimum of 3 years of experience acrossAdobe Experience Manager (Sites and Assets)-you’ve architected and delivered full-lifecycle AEM programs.

• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on Edge Delivery Services experience-building/authoringEdge Deliverysites (blocks, document-based or Universal Editor authoring, Git-based dev workflow, aem.live delivery pipeline) and a working grasp of front-end fundamentals (vanilla JS, CSS, Core Web Vitals / Lighthouse performance).

• Minimum of 3 years of experience migrating traditional AEM Sites to Edge Delivery Services(or comparable modern-web re-platforming at enterprise scale).

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in each of the following: leading discovery/design workshops; coordinating with stakeholders to gather requirements and review deliverables; working with remote, global delivery teams.

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent (12 years) work experience (If an, Associate’s Degree with 6 years of work experience)

Bonus Points If:

• Enterprise DAM /AEM Assetsdelivery.

• AdobeTarget, Analytics, AEP, Campaign, Workfront, Fireflyimplementation experience.

• Multi-brand / multi-site architecture, design-token/design-system governance, and federated component strategies.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below. We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 09/15/2026. Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:

U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture

Role Location Annual Salary Range

• California $73,800 to $218,800

• Cleveland $68,300 to $175,000

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