Adobe AEM Developer, Senior

Role Overview

• Develop and maintain custom components, templates, dialogs and workflows in AEM, following platform best practices (OSGi, Sling, JCR)
• Ensure technical quality of deliveries through unit tests (JUnit 5 + Mockito + AEM Mocks) and code reviews
• Optimize AEM environment performance: Oak indexes, JCR-SQL2 queries, Dispatcher caching and Client Libraries management
• Design and implement headless solutions with Content Fragments, GraphQL API and SPA Editor (React or Angular)
• Diagnose and resolve environment issues: stuck OSGi bundles, Missing dependencies, replication errors, Traversal Warnings and exceptions in error.log
• Support configuration and maintenance of local development environments (AEM SDK + Dispatcher via Docker) and repository synchronization
• Collaborate with UX/UI, product and content teams to produce technical specifications for new components and features
• Participate in architecture discussions, technical estimations and sprint planning, contributing feasibility references and risk assessments
• Mentor junior and mid-level developers, promoting AEM development best practices within the team
• Maintain up-to-date technical documentation on architectural decisions, component patterns and integration guides.

Requirements

• Development of OSGi Services and Components with proficiency in Declarative Services (DS) annotations
• Management of Bundle lifecycle (Activate, Deactivate, Modified) and resolution of OSGi dependency conflicts/circularities
• Creation and consumption of OSGi configurations via metatypes (OCD)
• Development of Sling Models with mastery of native injections (@ValueMapValue, @ChildResource, etc.) and exposure as JSON via Sling Model Exporters
• Creation of Sling Servlets bound by Resource Type and by Path
• Writing optimized queries in JCR-SQL2 and using the QueryBuilder API
• Creation and optimization of Oak indexes (Lucene/Property) to eliminate Traversal Warnings
• Development of Event Listeners to observe JCR node changes
• Creation of asynchronous routines via Sling Jobs (Job Consumers/Executors)
• Implementation of resilient HTTP clients (timeouts, retries) and custom Workflow Process Steps in Java
• Writing unit tests with JUnit 5 + Mockito + AEM Mocks (wcm.io)
• Development of HTML markup with HTL (Sightly), including XSS protection using native contexts
• Connecting HTL to the backend via the Use-API
• Creating components using the Proxy Pattern on top of AEM Core Components
• Structuring and managing Client Libraries (categories, embed, dependencies, CSS/JS minification and concatenation)
• Development of Touch UI Dialogs (Coral 3), Design Dialogs (Policies) and custom validations via Granite UI/JavaScript
• Rendering and managing Experience Fragments
• Modeling Content Fragment Models and instantiating Content Fragments
• Configuring AEM GraphQL API endpoints and writing optimized Persisted Queries
• Setting up the AEM SPA Editor with component mapping for React or Angular (@adobe/aem-react-editable-components)
• Ensuring correct SPA routing within the AEM ecosystem
• Managing dependencies in the AEM Maven Archetype and navigating modules (core, ui.apps, ui.content, ui.config)
• Synchronizing code/JCR via FileVault (vlt) and AEM Repo Tool / VSCode AEM Sync
• Configuring and running the AEM Dispatcher SDK locally via Docker (Apache Rewrite Rules + cache rules)
• Diagnostics via Apache Felix Web Console: stuck bundles, Missing dependencies, NullPointerExceptions and error.log analysis
• Adobe Certified Expert — AEM Sites Developer or AEM Architect certification (desirable)
• Experience with Adobe Target and/or Adobe Analytics integrated with AEM (desirable)
• Knowledge of Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) / Real-Time CDP (desirable)
• CI/CD practices applied to AEM projects (pipelines with Cloud Manager or equivalent) (desirable)
• Experience with AEM as a Cloud Service (AEMaaCS) (desirable)
• Familiarity with observability tools (New Relic, Datadog) in AEM environments (desirable)
• Knowledge of digital accessibility (WCAG 2.1 / ARIA) applied to AEM components (desirable)

Tech Stack

• AEM
• Angular
• Apache
• Cloud
• Docker
• GraphQL
• Java
• JavaScript
• JUnit
• Maven
• Mockito
• React

Benefits

• No benefits specified