We are looking for a seasoned
AEM Backend Technical Team Lead with 6+ years of experience in CMS development, including 3+ years in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). This role is focused on backend development and team leadership, not content authoring. The candidate should be capable of guiding a development team while delivering secure, scalable, and high-performance enterprise solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership :
- Lead and mentor a team of backend developers.
- Conduct code reviews and enforce coding standards.
- Provide architectural guidance and resolve technical challenges.
AEM Backend Development
- Develop and maintain Sling Models, Servlets, OSGi services, workflows, event listeners, and AEM forms.
- Customize and optimize AEM backend functionalities including repository management and integrations.
- Ensure security, scalability, and performance tuning of AEM applications.
CMS Integration
- Work with at least one secondary CMS (Drupal or Liferay).
- Develop and support integrations across CMS platforms, enterprise systems, and third-party APIs (RESTful, SOAP, GraphQL).
Performance & DevOps
- Optimize backend performance (JCR queries, indexing, dispatcher caching).
- Implement secure authentication and access controls.
- Support CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, and SonarQube.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Collaborate with frontend, QA, DevOps, and product teams.
- Contribute to solution design, documentation, and architectural best practices
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 5+ years of backend development experience, including 3+ years in AEM (6.x).
- Strong expertise in Java, Sling, OSGi, JCR (CRXDE, Oak).
- Experience with custom workflows, Sling Models, Servlets, and Dispatcher rules.
- Working knowledge of Drupal or Liferay.
- Proficiency in RESTful API development and system integrations.
- Hands-on experience with Jenkins, Git, SonarQube.
- Proven ability to lead and guide technical teams.
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
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