AEM Technical Architect

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We're on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

This is a great opportunity to be part of a growing team that provides consulting services for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) products and solutions. AEM helps customers organize and manage the delivery of creative assets and other content across digital marketing channels, including web, mobile, email, social media, and video. The AEM consulting team provides expert skills in the implementation of the Adobe AEM solution offering as well as integrating complementary Adobe enterprise solutions and working with clients' existing IT infrastructure.

Adobe Consulting engagements involve full life-cycle project delivery, in-depth product, and technical consulting, and mentoring and knowledge transfer customers. As a Technical Architect, you will deliver high quality consulting services to our growing client base. This includes facilitation of technical requirements gathering, performing solution and application design, and development, testing and installation of Adobe software as required by the project.

Responsibilities:

• Be a recognized expert in AEM software-based solutions & technologies.
• Deliver effective consulting services and lead ambassadorship in our client relationships.
• Provide technical leadership in sophisticated AEM-centric digital marketing solutions. Lead solution architecture design, guide and mentor teams to develop high quality solutions.
• Be a sought-out partner by Sales. Support consulting representation in sophisticated solution selling, collaborating with Sales to define initial architectural approaches and identify potential challenges and associated solutions.
• Drive the continuous improvement of delivery methodology and planning guidance.
• Partner with and enable Sales to develop accurate scoping and cost estimates Mentor others on the team, from new hire on-boarding to complex implementation issues.

• Lead the team in identifying, capturing, and distributing knowledge with clients, partners and colleagues via direct interaction and Adobe communities.
• Diagnose the client's technical environment and how they use Adobe technology to recommend options for improvement.
• Efficiently multi-task, working across multiple client engagements at the same time as well as key internal initiatives.
• Play a key role as a change agent in pursuit of constant tuning and improvement of our practice.
• Effectively analyze complex project issues, identify the possible solution options, and facilitate the presentation and review of the options and our recommended solution with the client.
• Proactively maintain the highest level of technical expertise by staying ahead of Adobe technologies through internally and externally available learning opportunities as well as self-study.

Requirements:

• 5-10 years' experience in the Web and/or ECMS technologies
• 3+ years of direct client consulting experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as customer relationship building skills.

• Articulate technical solutions and how they can solve client business problems to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Adapt to and work effectively with a variety of clients and in complicated situations, employing strong facilitation skills and establishing credibility and trust quickly.
• Engage sales teams and understand the dynamics of the sales process.
• Conceptually understand business requirements and translate them into architecture, design and development activities for our most sophisticated and large Web based solutions.
• Desire to help build and strengthen a team-oriented environment and to mentor and guide others in areas of your expertise both formally, as part of engagements, and informally.

• Provide guidance and leadership in planning and other delivery process activities and implement engagements following the Agile methodology including SCRUM.
• Knowledge in the Sling or OSGi frameworks, JCR API, RESTful principles or ExtJS framework, Dispatcher or CDNs a plus.
• Proficiency of Object-Oriented Programming Methodology & Practice, ideally with designing and programming of applications using Object Oriented Programming Methodology applying Java language constructs.
• Optimizing web solutions and architecting to accommodate performance requirements.
• Debugging and appropriate debugging tools usage skills in general TCP/IP networking, UNIX Operating system, HTTP protocol and request processing, SMTP, etc.

• Exposure to the latest AEM Cloud Service is a plus.
• Mastery in at least one of the current SQL dialects.
• Knowledge of HTML, DHTML, JS, CSS, etc.
• Proficiency in XML and related technologies, e.g. definition and interpretation of DTDs, supporting architectures etc., preferably also including XSLT, extended DTD know how, XML dialects such as SOAP, WML, ICE, etc.
• Administration and debugging of Web servers, e.g. Apache.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent years of experience
• Position may require up to 15% travel

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $139,400 -- $224,800 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.