Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Architect

TekWissen LLC

Job Location:

Taylor, AZ - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American organization that operates Texass electrical grid the Texas Interconnection which supplies power to more than 25 million Texas customers and represents 90 percent of the states electric load. Our client is the first independent system operator (ISO) in the United States and one of nine ISOs in North America. Our client works with the Texas Reliability Entity (TRE) one of eight regional entities within the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) that coordinate to improve reliability of the bulk power grid. Our client is a membership-based 501(c) nonprofit corporation and its members include consumers electric cooperatives generators power marketers retail electric providers investor-owned electric utilities (transmission and distribution providers) and municipally owned electric utilities.

Job Title: Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Architect

Work Location: Taylor TX 76574

Job Duration: 12 months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Architect to lead the design implementation and governance of enterprise-scale digital experience platforms.
This role demands deep technical mastery of AEM Sites Assets Forms and Cloud Service paired with architectural vision to build scalable performant and maintainable solutions aligned with business goals.
The ideal candidate will serve as the technical authority on AEM across development team bridging business requirements with platform capabilities while mentoring team and driving best practices.
AEM Sites
AEM Assets
AEM Forms
AEM Cloud Service
OSGi / Felix
Sling Framework
JCR / Oak
HTL / Sightly
Adobe IMS Dispatcher
CI/CD Pipelines
CDN / Fastly

Key Responsibilities :

Architecture & System Design

Design end-to-end AEM architectures for multi-site multi-tenant and multi-lingual enterprise deployments including author/publish topology dispatcher configuration and CDN integration.
Define content architecture JCR repository structure taxonomy tagging strategies and metadata schemas to support scalable content management.
Architect reusable component libraries (Core Components custom) page templates editable templates and Style Systems aligned with design systems.
Lead AEM Cloud Service migration strategy including assessment content migration planning custom code refactoring and go-live execution.
Design integrations with Adobe Experience Cloud (Analytics Target Campaign Launch/Tags) and third-party platforms via APIs event-driven architectures and webhooks.

Implementation & Development Oversight

Own and govern the AEM codebase including OSGi bundles Sling Models Servlets Workflows Schedulers and custom AEM applications.
Establish and enforce development standards: coding conventions PR review processes unit testing (AEM Mocks / Mockito) integration testing and documentation.
Design and implement AEM as a Cloud Service pipelines (Frontend Full Stack Config) via Adobe Cloud Manager with quality gates.
Build and maintain Dispatcher configurations for caching URL rewriting security headers and load balancing across environments.
Implement DAM workflows asset rendition pipelines Smart Tags integration and metadata management strategies in AEM Assets.

Performance Security & Governance

Conduct performance profiling using tools such as AEM Request Log Analyzer YSlow and APM platforms; optimize component rendering query performance (Oak index tuning) and cache strategies.
Enforce security best practices including service user configuration ACL design CSRF protection Sling Security configurations and Adobe IMS integration.
Define and manage replication topologies content distribution (Sling Content Distribution) and live copy / MSM strategies for global rollouts.
Monitor AEM Cloud Service environments via Adobe Cloud Manager logs New Relic and Splunk; establish alerting and on-call runbooks.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Leadership

Partner with Product Owners UX designers and business stakeholders to translate functional requirements into scalable AEM solutions.
Provide technical leadership and mentoring to a team of AEM developers; conduct architecture reviews design sessions and knowledge-sharing workshops.
Create and maintain architecture decision records (ADRs) technical design documents runbooks and onboarding guides.
Evaluate and recommend third-party integrations AEM add-ons and emerging Adobe technologies in alignment with roadmap and budget.

Required Qualifications &Experience

5 years of software engineering experience with a minimum of 3 years focused on Adobe Experience Manager (formerly CQ5/CRX).
Proven track record of architecting and delivering at least 3 large-scale AEM implementations from discovery through production.
Hands-on experience with AEM as a Cloud Service (AEMaaCS) including Cloud Manager pipelines environment management and migration tooling.

Technical Proficiencies

AEM Platform

AEM Sites Assets Forms Screens Commerce
OSGi framework (Apache Felix) SCR annotations
Apache Sling Resources Resolvers Servlets
JCR (Apache Jackrabbit Oak) Nodes Properties Queries
HTL (Sightly) Sling Models WCM Core Components
Workflows Launchers Schedulers Event Handlers

Dev & Ops Stack

Java 25 Maven multi-module project structure
Git GitHub / GitLab trunk-based development
Docker Kubernetes Adobe Cloud Manager
CI/CD Jenkins GitHub Actions Azure DevOps
REST / GraphQL APIs Adobe I/O Runtime
New Relic Splunk Datadog observability

Preferred Qualifications

Adobe Certified Expert AEM Sites Developer or Architect certification.
Experience with headless AEM delivery using Content Fragments Experience Fragments GraphQL API and SPA Editor (React / Angular).
Familiarity with SAML 2.0 / OAuth 2.0 / OIDC for AEM identity federation and Adobe IMS integration.
Knowledge of content personalization strategies using Adobe Target and ContextHub / Client Context.
Exposure to Adobe Commerce (Magento) integration with AEM for commerce-driven experiences.
Experience with Fastly Akamai or CloudFront CDN configurations in conjunction with AEM Dispatcher.
Background in digital experience composability MACH architecture or headless/hybrid CMS patterns.

Architecture Competencies

Candidates will be evaluated against the following architectural competency areas:

Competency - Expected Depth

Content Architecture - Multi-site management MSM / Live Copy language copies page templates and content fragment modeling.
Component Architecture - Core Components extension custom component design dialog authoring (Coral UI / Touch UI) and Style System.
Repository Design - Oak index strategy (Lucene / Property indices) JCR query optimization segment store vs. document store trade-offs.
Security Model - Closed User Groups (CUGs) service user ACLs Sling security replication agent authentication and HTTPS enforcement.
Cloud Native AEM - AEMaaCS constraints Immutable repository pattern RDE usage Front-End pipeline and Config pipeline.
Integration Patterns - Event-driven architecture via Adobe I/O Events REST/GraphQL API design AEM connectors and Externalizer configuration.
Dispatcher & CDN - Dispatcher flush agents caching rules filter configuration vanity URLs and CDN cache-control strategies.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Overview: TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American organization that operates Texass electrical grid the Texas Interconnection which supplies power to more than ...