AEP Technical Lead (contract/hybrid)

Company Description:

Blue Acorn iCi is a digital consultancy focused on delivering innovative solutions across customer experience, commerce, and data. Our team of over 400 experts enable clients to navigate large-scale, digital transformation programs. 

Whether it’s a digitally savvy consumer brand or a legacy manufacturer, Blue Acorn iCi empowers businesses with digital scalability to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer experience. With services that include strategy, analytics, design, and engineering, we elevate global brands across industries such as media, consumer goods & retail, financial services, manufacturing, technology and more.

Join our innovative and collaborative team as we deliver extraordinary digital experiences for some of the world’s largest brands! 

Overview:

Blue Acorn iCi is seeking a contract (6-12 months) AEP Technical Lead to join our delivery team who is available to work on-site half of the week (either Plano, TX or Charlotte, NC) and work remotely the other half. The candidate will be responsible to work with Business, DevOps, and Architecture teams to successfully deliver complex cross-functional projects.

Responsibilities:

• Work as a core member of AEP Delivery Team and collaborate with AEP onshore, product management, marketing, and fellow technologists
• Implement Alloy.js and extend CJA to all portfolios
• Integrate AEP and its application solutions i.e. Real-Time Customer Data Platform (RT-CDP), Customer Journey Analytics (CJA) and Adobe Journey Optimizer (AJO) with Adobe Experience Cloud solutions to drive the users cases.
• Evaluate new product features, conduct POC’s and help evaluate how they can be used to drive Use cases.
• Build solutions leveraging the AI capabilities of AEP using Data Science workspace, Attribution AI and Customer AI.
• Participate in user story analysis, elaboration, and design. Thrives to ensure code quality is high with supporting unit test and automation.
• Drive software development activities to meet schedules and timelines
• Research problems discovered by QA or product support and develop solutions to the problems
• Ensure that software standards and quality targets are met

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of technical experience
• 3+ experience working in Adobe Experience Platform and hands on experience with one or more key modules of CJA, AJO and Intelligence Services (Data Science, Customer AI, Attribution AI)
• Worked on both batch and real time process
• Created Customer profiling design
• Knowledge on AEP + Adobe Audience Manager + Adobe Target Integration, CJA, AJO , WebSDK, Firefly
• Experience implementing Alloy.js
• Understanding of AEP APIs and deployment processes.
• Possess excellent software architecture, design and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of platforms AWS/Salesforce CRM and Marketo.
• 3+ years’ experience with Big Data/cloud platforms or Adobe Experience Cloud products
• 5+ years’ experience with backend technologies including Python, Java, J2EE, Tomcat, REST
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-grade technical solutions for the cloud.
• Experience with loading data in and out of CDP from Data Lake/Salesforce and marketing orchestration systems.
• 3+ years’ experience with Adobe Experience Platform
• Knowledge of using XDM, Attribution AI, Customer AI, DMP & CJA
• 3+ years’ experience with building omni-channel personalization implementation.
• Adobe Certified Expert RT-CDP Expert certification in AEP would be a huge plus.
• Bachelor’s degree preferably in Computer Science
• Should have worked in Global delivery model (Onsite-Offshore Team Handling and Co-ordination)