Chief Engineer – Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) & Web

Responsibilities:

• Partner with architecture leaders to define and evolve the strategy for AEM-based web platforms and digital experiences across public and secure websites.
• Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and engineering standards that drive scalability, consistency, and reuse across web applications.
• Lead the architectural direction and adoption of AEM Cloud Service, including modernization and migration initiatives.
• Architect and govern CDN capabilities, including caching strategies, edge configuration, web application firewall (WAF) policies, traffic management, and performance optimization.
• Drive modernization of web platforms and content management solutions to improve scalability, maintainability, and delivery efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership for frontend engineering using modern frameworks and architectures, including React and Web Components.
• Champion modern web engineering practices, including accessibility, responsive design, performance optimization, and secure coding standards.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), providing guidance across AEM Sites, AEM Forms, AEM Assets, and related technologies.
• Architect integrations between web platforms, enterprise services, APIs, identity solutions, and Adobe ecosystem technologies.
• Partner with product, engineering, and architecture teams to conduct design reviews, influence technical decisions, and resolve complex architectural challenges.
• Translate business objectives and product roadmaps into scalable technical solutions and long-term engineering strategies.
• Define and promote secure website delivery patterns, including authentication, content security, and protection of sensitive data.
• Mentor engineers and technical leaders, foster engineering best practices, and maintain architectural standards and documentation.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of ten years related work experience, with at least five years of development experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
• Extensive experience leading enterprise web architecture and engineering initiatives, with a demonstrated ability to drive technical strategy across multiple teams and platforms.
• 5+ years of deep hands-on expertise with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), including headful (Sites/traditional), headless (Content Fragments, GraphQL, Edge Delivery), and AEM Forms spanning architecture, development, and operational concerns.
• Strong command of modern frontend frameworks and technologies, including React, Web Components, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript. Experience with micro-frontend architectures, module federation, or similar patterns for large-scale secure web applications.
• Experience architecting and optimizing high-traffic, customer-facing websites utilizing Akamai CDN or comparable technologies, including caching strategies, edge configuration, WAF, and performance optimization.
• Experience with both secure (authenticated) and public website architectures, including integration with identity providers, session management, and content security.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and experience with AWS services, including compute, networking, storage, serverless, and IAM.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with AEM Cloud Service and leading migration initiatives.
• Expertise with AEM Forms, including adaptive forms, form data models, document services, and forms-centric workflow automation.
• Experience with Adobe marketing stack integration, including Adobe Launch (Tags), Adobe Web SDK, Adobe Target, and Adobe Experience Platform (AEP).
• Familiarity with design system implementation and governance (e.g., Storybook, custom element registries, shared component libraries).
• Exposure to Agentic AI or generative AI-enabled content authoring, experience assembly, or intelligent personalization.
• AEM certifications (Adobe Certified Expert - Sites Architect, Sites Developer, or Forms Developer).

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