Adobe Experience Manager Architect

About the role

Verndale is seeking a senior, hands‑on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Architect to lead optimization efforts for large‑scale, content‑driven websites. The role blends architecture and development, focusing on improving component quality, authoring experience, and delivery speed while collaborating with client and internal engineering teams.

Key responsibilities

• Consult with client business and technical teams to assess the current AEM implementation and identify improvement areas.
• Lead hands‑on AEM architecture and development across components, templates, policies, styles, and content models.
• Diagnose and fix broken or poorly implemented AEM components to enhance quality and maintainability.
• Design and build reusable components and page‑building patterns that support scalable content authoring.
• Convert flat or hard‑coded page experiences into reusable AEM components, templates, and libraries.
• Partner with cross‑functional teammates and client stakeholders to define technical requirements, recommend implementation approaches, and guide execution.
• Produce technical documentation, implementation guidance, estimates, and proof‑of‑concept work as needed.
• Mentor engineers and serve as the senior technical point of contact for AEM decisions, code quality, and best practices.
• Identify opportunities for AI‑assisted workflows to accelerate component generation.

Required profile

• Senior‑level professional with extensive hands‑on experience in Adobe Experience Manager.
• Strong consulting mindset, able to engage with both business and technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to lead architecture and development efforts on complex, enterprise‑scale projects.
• Experience mentoring engineers and driving best‑practice adoption.
• Interest or experience with AI‑enabled tooling for authoring workflows is a plus.

Required skills

• Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) – components, templates, policies, content models.
• Java development.
• OSGi, Apache Sling, JCR.
• RESTful APIs.
• Front‑end technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript.