AEM Architect

Position: AEM Architect

Experience Required: 815 years (minimum 46 years in Adobe Experience Manager)

Role Overview

The AEM Architect is responsible for leading the end-to-end design, architecture, and implementation of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) solutions. This role combines technical expertise, solution design, integration leadership, and stakeholder coordination to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance digital experience platforms.

Key Responsibilities

1. Architecture & Design

• Architect end-to-end solutions on AEM Sites, Assets, Forms, and/or Screens .
• Define component architecture, workflows, content models, templates, OSGi services , and dispatcher caching strategy.
• Create high-level and low-level design (HLD & LLD) documents.
• Ensure solutions meet performance, scalability, flexibility, and security requirements.

2. Technical Leadership Lead development teams across sprints, reviewing and guiding:

• AEM components (HTL/Sightly)
• Sling models
• OSGi services
• Integrations with 3rd-party systems (REST, GraphQL, SOAP)
• Enforce AEM best practices , coding standards, and architectural governance.
• Conduct design + code reviews.

3. Integration & DevOps Architect integrations between AEM and:

• CRM / CDP
• Adobe Analytics, Target, Launch
• Commerce platforms (Magento, SAP Commerce, Shopify)
• Search (Solr, Elastic)
• Work with DevOps to enable
• CI/CD pipelines
• Cloud Manager (AEMaaCS)
• Dispatcher configurations
• Automated deployments

4. AEM as a Cloud Service (AEMaaCS) Work on Cloud Service architecture

• Cloud Manager pipelines & performance tests
• Asset Compute workers
• Content Transfer Tool
• CDN + Dispatcher caching strategy

5. Content & Experience Architecture

• Build scalable content architectures to support multi-site, multi-language deployments (MSM).
• Personalized experiences using Adobe Target or ContextHub .
• Design and optimize content authoring workflows .

6. Client & Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with business teams, product owners, marketing teams, and IT stakeholders.
• Translate business requirements into technical designs.
• Present architectural recommendations and provide estimations.

Required Skills & Experience Core AEM Skills

• 815 years (minimum 46 years in Adobe Experience Manager)
• Strong experience with AEM 6.x and AEM as a Cloud Service
• Deep expertise in:
• Sling, OSGi, JCR, CRX
• HTL/Sightly, JSP
• AEM workflows
• Dispatcher
• Editable templates
• Content Fragments, Experience Fragments

Backend & Frontend Technologies Java / J2EE

• Apache Sling Models
• REST APIs, JSON, GraphQL
• JavaScript, CSS, HTML

DevOps & Cloud AEM Cloud Manager

• Jenkins/GitHub Actions
• AWS/Azure/GCP fundamentals
• CDN, caching, performance optimization

Adobe Experience Cloud Ecosystem (Preferred but not mandatory)

• Adobe Target
• Adobe Analytics
• Adobe Campaign
• Adobe Launch
• AEP/CJA integrations

Preferred Qualifications

• Adobe Certified:
• AEM Architect / AEM Developer Expert
• Experience in:
• Multi-site Manager (MSM)
• Headless AEM / Content APIs
• SPA Editor (React/Vue)
• Knowledge of DAM optimizations, workflows, renditions
• Experience in accessibility (WCAG), SEO, security best practices

Soft Skills

• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Ability to lead technical teams
• Problem-solving with complex architectures
• Stakeholder management + requirement analysis