AEM Technical Lead

At ASSA ABLOY our mission is to make securely accessing the things in your life noticeably easier without being noticeable.

Our global teams work together to create products and services that add everyday simplicity and convenience to our users lives. With the ability to control access to what they love the most were able to provide peace of mind through safety and visibility.

The AEM Core Technical Lead is responsible for designing and delivering AEM and related integrationplatform solutions throughout the full project lifecycle working in close collaboration with partner teams. This role provides handson technical leadership guiding development teams to successfully deliver business and technical requirements.

The AEM Core Technical Lead also supports existing AEM implementations by driving enhancements resolving defects and ensuring the platform remains scalable performant and aligned with best practices.

In addition to deep technical expertise in AEM and integrated platforms this role requires strong communication and interpersonal skills to establish and maintain trusted relationships with business stakeholders and implementation partners. The position operates with a high degree of autonomy and requires proactive initiative sound judgment strong organizational skills and the ability to introduce best practices and innovative solutions.

This position will sit onsite full-time Berlin CT reporting to the Director of Applications Development.

What you will be doing

• Design and define technical solutions aligned to business requirements review proposals with technical leadership document architecture and lead solution development with delivery teams.
• Ensure successful delivery of enterprisescale AEM integrations supporting complex upstream and downstream system dependencies.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders during the discovery phase to gather functional and technical requirements translating them into welldocumented AEM solution designs.
• Define and present development approaches estimates and effort plans to technical leadership for review and approval.
• Remain handson with AEM features and capabilities contributing directly to custom development backend integrations and complex implementations alongside the development team.
• Apply innovative and outofthebox thinking to introduce best practices reusable frameworks and scalable development approaches.
• Propose alternative technical solutions to improve efficiency reusability and longterm sustainability while meeting business goals.
• Perform design and code reviews providing technical guidance and direction throughout the development lifecycle.
• Contribute to architectural standards governance and development guidelines to ensure compliance quality and consistency across teams.
• Drive project scope timelines and delivery plans aligned to solution complexity and business priorities.
• Work effectively within Agile methodologies supporting iterative delivery and continuous improvement.
• Build strong customer relationships through clear communication collaboration and proactive stakeholder engagement.

What we are looking for

• 10 years delivering enterprisescale digital and web solutions.
• 5 years developing with AEM Touch UI (6.4 / AEM as a Cloud Service).
• 6 years architecting and delivering complex AEM site builds including:
• Editable Templates Touch UI Components (React Sightly/HTL Java Angular)
• Servlets Services and thirdparty integrations
• ContextHub Campaigns Content & Experience Fragments
• MSM Replication workflows Dispatcher configuration
• Multitenant architectures and styling systems
• Performance tuning SEO diagnostics and analytics instrumentation
• Experience integrating Salesforce commerce platforms and product management systems.
• Strong working knowledge of GitHub/Bitbucket Jira Confluence and modern DevOps workflows.
• Experience with cloud hosting CI/CD design and GDPR customization.
• Demonstrated ownership accountability and ability to balance technical excellence with business outcomes.
• Strong troubleshooting skills with broad digital and web technology expertise.

Technical Skills

• Extensive handson experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) including Components Editable Templates Client Libraries Workflows Content Publishing Tagging Taxonomy Metadata Campaigns Analytics Targeting and Replication.
• Strong expertise in AEM architecture and capabilities including MSM (Blueprints Live/Language Copies) Multitenant implementations Dispatcher configuration (sling mapping vhosts URL rewrites) and AEM Cloud & onprem deployments.
• Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise AEM solutions including content fragments contexts Sling Models OSGi configuration data layers and personalization frameworks.
• Handson experience with thirdparty integrations (Search Authentication Web Services CRM CDN Analytics and Marketing platforms).
• Experience with eCommerce platforms such as Magento (Adobe Commerce) and Salesforce Commerce Cloud.
• Skilled in performance optimization SEO troubleshooting serverside caching and frontend/serverside debugging.
• Strong understanding of analytics targeting and tag management using Adobe Analytics Google Analytics Adobe Target Google Tag Manager and Adobe Launch.
• Experience driving CI/CD pipelines cloud hosting strategies and secure scalable deployment models.
• Excellent knowledge of secure coding standards code quality design patterns and AEM best practices; regular contributor to code reviews.
• Proven mentor and technical lead coaching junior developers and owning technical excellence across AEM delivery teams.
• Adobe certifications (ACE AEM Architect AEM Developer AEM Advanced Developer) a plus.

What we offer

We are passionate about providing amazing opportunities and benefits so that you can enjoy a lifelong career with us.

• Bonus eligible.
• Continuous professional development opportunities and an environment that fosters internal growth and mobility.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package which includes multiple healthcare options tuition reimbursement and matching 401k.
• Generous holiday schedule and paid time offto refresh and recharge.
• Employee pricing on our products and discount programs for travel entertainment and more!

We review applications regularly so dont hesitate apply today!

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We are the ASSA ABLOY Group

Our people have made us the global leader in access return we open doors for them wherever they go. With nearly 63000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries we help billions of people experience a more open world. Our innovations make all sorts of spaces physical and virtual safer more secure and easier to access.

As an employer we value results not titles or backgrounds. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions supporting them with regular feedback training and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact and we encourage them to grow their role locally regionally or even internationally.

As we welcome new people on board its important to us to have diverse inclusive teams and we value different perspectives and experiences.