Adobe Experience Manager - AEM Engineer

Marriott Vacations; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Marriott Vacations Worldwide (MVW) seeks an Adobe Experience Manager Engineer to lead design, development, and support of our CMS platforms across branded sites and mobile apps.

You will own AEM Cloud Service governance, architecture, and integration patterns, working with vendors, DevOps, and platform owners to enable scalable digital experiences while ensuring security, performance, and reliability across MVW brands.

Qualifications

• Significant experience developing customer facing web and mobile applications.
• Requires at least 7 years of progressive experience with CMS systems, with a focus on Adobe AEM.
• Strong knowledge of Java, REST APIs, CSS, HTML, and web/mobile delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead the AEM Cloud Service environment, including Development, Publish, and Cloud Manager configurations.
• Support platform governance decisions, including multi‑tenant structure, brand separation, folder hierarchies, and deployment constraints.
• Act as the escalation point for AEM platform questions across engineering, DevOps, vendors, and Adobe.
• Enhance and maintain the AEM platform supporting marketing sites, brand separation, headless delivery, and integration patterns.
• Manage, review, and validate MVW best practices for AEM implementations.
• Coordinate Cloud Manager pipeline usage across multiple brands and sites.
• Ensure releases align with MVW security, stability, and operational readiness expectations.
• Serve as the primary technical contact with Adobe for onboarding and engagements.
• Manage AEM Admin and Support role assignments, ensuring teams have appropriate access.
• Coordinate sandbox, non‑production, and production readiness to avoid delivery blockers.
• Manage internal AEM capability build‑out, including onboarding and knowledge transfer.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Web and mobile development

Education

College degree in technology/engineering or CS

Job description

Position Summary

The Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Engineer is a hands‑on technical role responsible for solution design, development, delivery, and support of MVW's customer-facing and associate-facing content management systems (CMS) for branded websites and mobile applications. This position contributes specialized IT knowledge and provides guidance on overall application expertise, experience, and design that supports the MVW enterprise.

The Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Engineer provides technical leadership, supports platform governance, and engineering enablement for MVW's AEM as a Cloud Service implementation. This role serves as the primary internal subject matter expert for AEM architecture, onboarding, and vendor alignment‑leading the implementation, operation, and evolution of AEM alignment with MVW's digital experience strategy and Adobe cloud service best practices.

This role is accountable for supplier performance and outcomes for partners engaged by MVW to support web and mobile application development and application maintenance. This role works closely with platform owners, product owners, key stakeholders, and leaders to define the application strategy and delivery approach. The role partners with enterprise architects to align technology solutions, with platform owners to align business strategy across business units, and with delivery engineers and vendors to implement the solutions.

Expected Contributions

AEM Platform Ownership & Governance

Serve as the technical leader of the AEM Cloud Service environment, including Development, Publish, and Cloud Manager configurations.

Support platform governance decisions, including multi‑tenant structure, brand separation, folder hierarchies, and deployment constraints.

Act as the escalation point for AEM platform questions across engineering, DevOps, vendors, and Adobe.

Architecture & Solution Design

Enhance and maintain the AEM platform supporting marketing sites, brand separation, headless delivery, and integration patterns.

Manage, review, and validate MVW best practices for AEM implementations.

Manage, review, and validate partner‑provided designs and implementation approaches for consistency with MVW standards.

DevOps, CI/CD & Release Management

Support the AEM CI/CD strategy, working with DevOps teams and partners to define deployment pipelines, branching strategies, and release governance.

Coordinate Cloud Manager pipeline usage across multiple brands and sites.

Ensure releases align with MVW security, stability, and operational readiness expectations.

Vendor, Partner & Adobe Engagement

Serve as the primary technical point of contact with Adobe for:

• Platform onboarding
• Expert Sessions
• Ultimate Success / Success Accelerator engagements

Partner with system integrators on implementation planning, technical reviews, and issue resolution.

Access Management & Environment Readiness

Manage AEM Admin and Support role assignments, ensuring teams have appropriate access for development and support ticketing.

Coordinate sandbox, non‑production, and production readiness to avoid delivery blockers.

Enablement & Knowledge Transfer

Manage internal AEM capability build‑out, including:

• Technical onboarding
• Best practice alignment
• Knowledge transfer from vendors and Adobe

Identify skill gaps and coordinate enablement sessions rather than relying on indefinite vendor dependency

General

Subject matter expert for platform/capability; works with supplier and other experts to stay ahead of technology trends related to the platform

Manages application and platform innovation

Manages delivery partners to produce application development outcomes in alignment with solution designs

Candidate Profile

Education

College degree: technology based, engineering, computer science, or statistical/math sciences or Bachelor of Science (BS) degree

Experience

Significant experience developing customer facing web and mobile applications

Requires at least 7 years of progressive experience with CMS systems, with a focus on Adobe AEM.

Requires at least 7 years of progressive experience with web (Java, REST APIs, CSS, and HTML) and mobile development technologies

Hands‑on experience in Agile methodology

Progressive experience with integrations to backend services, analytics, CMS solutions, and security best practices.

Applied understanding of User Experience Architecture, User‑Centered Design Analysis and application design.

Experience with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) for web and mobile applications

Experience with DevOps best practices and release automation

Experience in a multi‑channel environment (web, mobile, agent, automated phone, etc.)

Able to exhibit a progression of increasingly complex platforms/applications and successfully deliver complex IT projects

Skills/Attributes

Strong leadership and communication skills

Proven project management and team organization capabilities

Web and Mobile application development and te