AEM Tech Lead
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 2, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 30, 2026.
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Opening paragraph
AEM Tech Lead is a key member of the EY Digital Experience Platform’s delivery team in GDS. This resource will use technology components from both Adobe, Microsoft and other platform components to bring to bear innovative solutions to business problems.
The opportunity
This opportunity within the EY Digital Experience Platform’s delivery team will help in the growth of your career. You will have the opportunity to work with the Adobe cloud suites and will collaborate with the broader team. Lead a team of delivery team members to provide deep technical development expertise, guidance and best practices and coding standards.
Your key responsibilities
- Partner with wider technology teams and business to understand functional and non-functional requirements from a business and from a platform perspective
- Lead a team of AEM developers & other delivery team members to provide deep technical development expertise, guidance and best practices and coding standards
- Carry out necessary AEM development work - components, templates, services, necessary configurations
- Conduct code reviews and technical design reviews.
- Estimate efforts and identify technical risks and propose mitigation plan.
- Trouble shoot production issues and provide technical guidance during critical incidents.
- Optimize performance, dispatcher, caching strategy.
- Document findings, learnings and recommendations
- Share knowledge on new AEM features, capabilities, technologies, architecture methodologies, standards, leading practices.
Skills and attributes for success
How your skills and experience will make an impact, followed by sub-headings:
To qualify for the role, you must have
- 8 to 10 years in IT environment
- 5+ years of hands-on experience of working with AEM
- Hands-on development experience with AEM 6.x onwards including AEM as Cloud Service.
- Adobe Experience Manager - components, templates, workflows, MSM and Rollout, translations and workflows, UI customisations, reporting,
- Deep knowledge of Java, Maven, JCR, OSGI, Sling Framework, HTL (Sightly), AEM dispatchers, Restful APIs.
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, jQuery, AJAX
- Knowledge of Cloud Manager CI/CD pipelines, GitHub
- Code Quality Tool/Framework: SonarQube, Junit, Mockito
- Adobe certifications such as AEM Sites Developer and or AEM Cloud Service required
Ideally, you’ll also have
- Excellent communication skills, facilitation and influencing.
- Understanding of the Adobe Experience Cloud suite of products.
- Experience of Adobe’s Project Firefly highly desirable.
- Experience of additional Adobe solutions such as a Target, Analytics beneficial.
What we look for
- Loves creative use of technology, likes experimentation, is not afraid to try, fail fast and learn.
- Analytical, logical approach to problem solving.
- Action oriented.
What working at EY offers
Reward statement plus an outline of the culture and environment in this part of the firm. If not covered elsewhere, this may include language about the interesting, varied and important work; the freedom and autonomy you’ll have in the role; the feedback you will receive that you can learn from to achieve mastery at something; opportunities for personal growth and career advancement; or who and how you will be connected to others.
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