Senior Engineering Manager AEM and Personalization Platforms

The Senior Engineering Manager - AEM and Personalization Platforms is accountable for the engineering delivery and reliability of Vanguards core digital experience and marketing technology platforms. This role leads Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) platform engineering and enterprise personalization and datacollection capabilities enabling secure scalable and personalized digital experiences across web and mobile channels. The position requires a balance of strong handson technical expertise people leadership and enterpriselevel stakeholder partnership.

This role is essential to delivering Vanguards AEM Cloud transformation enabling faster more stable and highly personalized digital experiences across web and mobile channels. Dedicated technical and delivery leadership strengthens enterprise personalization and datacollection capabilities directly improving the relevance and consistency of client interactions. Strong cloud engineering governance ensures resilient scalable platforms that reduce clientvisible issues while accelerating timetomarket for client experience enhancements.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical and delivery leadership for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) platform engineering including architecture development integrations performance and platform operations.

• Lead engineering delivery for personalization and marketing datacollection platforms including Adobe Web SDK Mobile SDK Adobe Launch and Adobe Target.

• Enable omnichannel personalization capabilities across digital touchpoints in partnership with marketing product analytics and data teams.

• Establish and uphold engineering standards governance and best practices to ensure platform scalability security and reuse.

• Lead and develop engineering teams through effective coaching performance management and talent development.

• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into reliable enterpriseready technology solutions.

• Own delivery execution dependency management risk mitigation and roadmap alignment to ensure predictable highquality outcomes.

• Ensure platforms meet Vanguard security compliance resiliency and operational excellence standards.

Qualifications:

• Strong handson experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) platform engineering.

• Advanced web development expertise including modern JavaScript frameworks APIs and cloudbased architectures.

• Handson experience with AWS Cloud including designing building and operating scalable secure cloudnative solutions.

• Proven experience implementing enterprisescale personalization and datacollection solutions across web and mobile channels.

• Demonstrated ability to design and operate platforms supporting hightraffic customerfacing digital experiences.

• Demonstrated experience leading and managing engineering teams including hiring coaching and performance evaluation.

• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills with the ability to influence across business and technology partners.

• Clear enterprise mindset balancing local delivery priorities with longterm platform strategy risk management and scalability.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with AEM Cloud Service and cloudbased CMS delivery models.

• Broader marketing technology ecosystem experience including analytics consent management and platform integrations.

• Experience with web and mobile application development in largescale environments.

• Exposure to Agentic AI or generative AIenabled engineering

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About Vanguard

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