Adobe Experience Manager - AEM Engineer

Position Summary

The Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Engineer is a hands-on technical role responsible for solution design, development, delivery, and support of MVW’s customer-facing and associate-facing content management systems (CMS) for branded websites and mobile applications. This position contributes specialized IT knowledge and provides guidance on overall application expertise, experience, and design that supports the MVW enterprise.

The Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Engineer provides technical leadership, supports platform governance, and engineering enablement for MVW’s AEM as a Cloud Service implementation. This role serves as the primary internal subject matter expert for AEM architecture, onboarding, and vendor alignment-leading the implementation, operation, and evolution of AEM alignment with MVW’s digital experience strategy and Adobe cloud service best practices.

This role is accountable for supplier performance and outcomes for partners engaged by MVW to support web and mobile application development and application maintenance. This role works closely with platform owners, product owners, key stakeholders, and leaders to define the application strategy and delivery approach. The role partners with enterprise architects to align technology solutions, with platform owners to align business strategy across business units, and with delivery engineers and vendors to implement the solutions.

Expected Contributions

AEM Platform Ownership & Governance

• Serve as the technical leader of the AEM Cloud Service environment, including Development, Publish, and Cloud Manager configurations.

• Support platform governance decisions, including multi-tenant structure, brand separation, folder hierarchies, and deployment constraints.

• Act as the escalation point for AEM platform questions across engineering, DevOps, vendors, and Adobe.

Architecture & Solution Design

• Enhance and maintain the AEM platform supporting marketing sites, brand separation, headless delivery, and integration patterns.

• Manage, review, and validate MVW best practices for AEM implementations.

• Manage, review, and validate partner-provided designs and implementation approaches for consistency with MVW standards.

DevOps, CI/CD & Release Management

• Support the AEM CI/CD strategy, working with DevOps teams and partners to define deployment pipelines, branching strategies, and release governance.

• Coordinate Cloud Manager pipeline usage across multiple brands and sites.

• Ensure releases align with MVW security, stability, and operational readiness expectations.

Vendor, Partner & Adobe Engagement

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact with Adobe for:

  • Platform onboarding

  • Expert Sessions

  • Ultimate Success / Success Accelerator engagements

• Partner with system integrators on implementation planning, technical reviews, and issue resolution.

Access Management & Environment Readiness

• Manage AEM Admin and Support role assignments, ensuring teams have appropriate access for development and support ticketing.

• Coordinate sandbox, non-production, and production readiness to avoid delivery blockers.

Enablement & Knowledge Transfer

• Manage internal AEM capability build-out, including:

  • Technical onboarding

  • Best practice alignment

  • Knowledge transfer from vendors and Adobe

• Identify skill gaps and coordinate enablement sessions rather than relying on indefinite vendor dependency

General

• Subject matter expert for platform/capability; works with supplier and other experts to stay ahead of technology trends related to the platform

• Manages application and platform innovation

• Manages delivery partners to produce application development outcomes in alignment with solution designs

Candidate Profile

Education

• College degree: technology based, engineering, computer science, or statistical/math sciences or Bachelor of Science (BS) degree

Experience

• Significant experience developing customer facing web and mobile applications

• Requires at least 7 years of progressive experience with CMS systems, with a focus on Adobe AEM.

• Requires at least 7 years of progressive experience with web (Java, REST APIs, CSS, and HTML) and mobile development technologies

• Hands-on experience in Agile methodology

• Progressive experience with integrations to backend services, analytics, CMS solutions, and security best practices.

• Applied understanding of User Experience Architecture, User-Centered Design Analysis and application design.

• Experience with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) for web and mobile applications

• Experience with DevOps best practices and release automation

• Experience in a multi-channel environment (web, mobile, agent, automated phone, etc.)

• Able to exhibit a progression of increasingly complex platforms/applications and successfully deliver complex IT projects

Skills/Attributes

• Strong leadership and communication skills

• Proven project management and team organization capabilities

• Web and Mobile application development and testing practices

• Strong problem resolution skills

• Ability to build and maintain effective business relationships to align AEM capabilities with business objectives

• Demonstrated application strategy and design expertise

• Process management and improvement mindset

• Innovation and forward-thinking approach

• Ability to coach and train business users on AEM capabilities, standards and best practices

• Supplier management skills, with experience collaborating with third-party or offshore teams to deliver projects.

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