AEM Lead & Solutions Architect

Horizontal Talent; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 88,828,000 - 183,386,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Retirement

Job summary

Horizontal Talent is seeking an experienced AEM consultant to lead client-facing technical work across multiple projects in Denver, Colorado. This role focuses on shaping solutions, guiding teams, and translating business needs into high-quality digital experiences.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, review code, and mentor engineers while driving technical excellence, scalability, and performance across deployments. This position offers competitive compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• 6+ years hands-on AEM development in a professional environment.
• 3+ years in technical leadership and team management.
• Strong working knowledge of AEM, Java, Sling, OSGi, JCR, and Apache Web Server.
• Experience architecting and launching sites using AEM Cloud Service or AEM 6.5.
• Ability to communicate clearly with clients and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Solid problem-solving skills and a strong ownership mindset.
• Understanding of Agile practices, especially Scrum, and unit testing approaches.
• Experience integrating with third-party platforms and systems.
• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, caching, CDNs, and persistence layers.
• A background in computer science, engineering, a bootcamp, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery across multiple client projects with a focus on quality, scalability, and performance
• Act as a client-facing technical lead in meetings, adapting communication for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Translate business requirements into practical technical solutions and implementation plans
• Support all phases of the development lifecycle from planning through release
• Review code and provide thoughtful feedback to help maintain strong engineering standards
• Create technical documentation, including architecture outlines and solution specifications
• Write clean, testable, and efficient code
• Manage and coordinate software releases
• Explore and apply new technologies that improve delivery and outcomes
• Mentor engineers and share technical knowledge across the team

Skills

AEM development

Technical leadership

Java, Sling, OSGi, JCR

AEM Cloud Service / AEM 6.5

Client-facing

Agile / Scrum

Code review

Architectural design

Third-party integrations

HA / DR / caching / CDNs

Computer science background

Education

Computer science degree or equivalent

Job description

Horizontal Talent is seeking an experienced AEM consultant to lead client-facing technical work across multiple projects in Denver, Colorado. This role focuses on shaping solutions, guiding teams, and translating business needs into high-quality digital experiences.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, review code, and mentor engineers while driving technical excellence, scalability, and performance across deployments. This position offers competitive compensation and benefits.