This role is responsible fordesigning, building, and optimizing Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) solutions to powerArrow Digital’s customer-focused digital experience. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in AEM architecture, component development, and cloud-based optimizations, with a deep understanding of best practices for security, performance, and scalability. This candidate should be experiencedAEM Headless Architect with deep expertise inReact-based front-end architectures,Server-Side Rendering (SSR), andAPI-driven integrations usingAdobe Experience Manager (AEM) as apure headless CMS.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Architectend-to-end headless solutions usingAEM as a content source andReact/Next.js for rendering.

  
  
  

• DesignSSR and SSG architectures leveragingNext.js or similar frameworks for high-performance and SEO-friendly sites.

  
  
  

• Define and implementAEM Headless content models (Content Fragments, Models, and APIs) that support omnichannel delivery.

  
  
  

• Architect, develop, and maintain scalable AEM components following Adobe best practices and focusing on reusability.

  
  
  

• LeadAEM template, workflow, and dispatcher configurations, ensuring high availability and performance.

  
  
  

• GuideAEM Cloud implementations, ensuring alignment with Adobe’s evolving cloud-native capabilities.

  
  
  

• Collaborate with system administrators, DevOps, and security teams on deployments, optimizations, and system upgrades.

  
  
  

• Serve as atechnical leader, providing mentorship to developers and ensuring adherence to AEM development standards.

  
  
  

• Troubleshoot complexauthoring, performance, and integration issues across the AEM platform.

  
  
  

• Oversee and optimizeAEM integrations with Adobe CJA Analytics, Adobe Launch, and third-party services.

  
  
  

• Define and enforcesecurity, accessibility, SEO, UX, and analytics best practices.

  
  
  

• Leadcode reviews, technical design sessions, and solution architecture discussions.

  
  
  

• Maintain and evolvecomprehensive technical documentation.

  
  
  

• Collaborate with stakeholders and product teams, aligning AEM capabilities with business goals.

  
  
  

• Provide leadership in Agile/Scrum environments, ensuring efficient sprint planning and execution.

  
  
  

Required Skills & Experience

• Significant hands-on experience withAdobe Experience Manager (AEM 6.x / AEM as a Cloud Service), including Sites, Assets (and optionally Forms).

  
  
  

• StrongJava / Java EE / OSGi / Apache Sling / HTL (Sightly) experience.

  
  
  

• Experience with buildingAEM components, templates, dialogs, services, workflows, scheduled jobs.

  
  
  

• Familiarity with front-end technologies:HTML5, CSS3/SCSS, JavaScript, client libraries, responsive design.

  
  
  

• Experience in integrating AEM with other systems:REST APIs / SOAP, CRM, marketing tools, identity management / SSO.

  
  
  

• Strong understanding ofcaching, dispatching, CDN, load balancing, performance tuning.

  
  
  

• Experience inupgrades / migrations of AEM or content migration (from legacy systems).

  
  
  

• Strong design/architectural mindset: able to make high-level design decisions, tradeoffs, and document them.

  
  
  

• Good leadership, communication (both technical & non-technical), and team mentoring skills.

  
  
  

• Familiarity withDevOps / CI-CD pipelines, environment provisioning, monitoring, logging.

  
  
  

• Knowledge of security best practices (authentication, authorization, vulnerabilities).

  
  
  

• Experience inmulti-site / multi-language (MSM), headless architecture, GraphQL / SPA front ends.

  
  
  

 Education / Certifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

  
  
  

• PreferablyAEM Architect or AEM Developer certification(s) from Adobe.

  
  
  

• Relevant certifications(e.g., cloud / security) are a plus.

  
  
  

Nice-to-Have / Additional (Optional)

• Experience working ineCommerce platforms and integrations.

  
  
  

• Experience withAdobe Experience Cloud stack: Analytics, Target, Campaign, Launch, etc.

  
  
  

• Experience withmicro-frontends or component-based architecture.

  
  
  

• Experience in large scale, globally distributed environments.

  
  
  

• Knowledge of modern front-end frameworks (React, Angular, Vue) especially inhybrid or headless AEM setups.

  
  
  

• Experience withAEMaaCS or AMS (Adobe Managed Services).

  
  
  

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