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Key Responsibilities:
We are looking for an experienced AEM Backend Senior Consultant to design, build, and support enterprise-grade solutions on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), with strong hands-on expertise in Java, AEM as a Cloud Service, and AEM Assets. You will lead backend implementation, guide junior team members, ensure best practices, and partner with architects and DevOps to deliver secure, scalable, and performant solutions.
- Lead backend development on AEM (Cloud Service) using Sling, OSGi, JCR, and EM best practices.
- Design and implement AEM components/services, custom OSGi bundles, schedulers, servlets, listeners, and integrations.
- Build and optimize AEM Assets capabilities: metadata schemas, custom metadata, asset ingestion, workflows, tagging, permissions, and asset governance.
- Implement and maintain AEM Workflows (asset processing, approvals, publishing, metadata enrichment).
- Integrate AEM with external systems via REST APIs, messaging, and authentication patterns.
- Own performance tuning and troubleshooting: caching strategies, dispatcher behavior, repository queries, and scalability.
- Support CI/CD pipelines and cloud deployment standards (Cloud Manager), code quality gates, and release hygiene.
- Ensure engineering excellence: clean code, SOLID principles, code review rigor, unit/integration testing, documentation.
- Collaborate with product owners, frontend, QA, DevOps, and security teams; contribute to solutioning and estimation.
- Mentor consultants, set coding standards, and drive knowledge sharing across the team.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 6–10+ years overall experience; 4+ years hands-on AEM backend experience.
- Strong Java expertise (Java 8/11+), backend patterns, and API design.
- EM core concepts: Sling Models, OSGi services, servlets, JCR, permissions/ACLs.
- Strong experience in AEM as a Cloud Service fundamental: immutable deployments, Cloud Manager, logs, and cloud constraints.
- Headless AEM patterns: Content Fragments, GraphQL APIs, SPA integrations.
- Solid working knowledge of AEM Assets and related tooling (metadata, workflows, asset processing).
- Experience with Dispatcher/CDN caching, cache invalidation strategies, and troubleshooting.
- Comfortable with Git, Maven, CI/CD, and DevOps collaboration.
- Testing knowledge: JUnit, Mockito, integration testing practices.
- Good communication skills and ability to work with globally distributed teams.
Location and way of working:
- Base location: Bengaluru
- Education: Professional Qualification - B.E./B. Tech/MCA
- This profile does not involve extensive travel for work.
- Hybrid is our default way of working. Each domain has customized the hybrid approach to their unique needs.
