Technical Lead (AEM)

Job Summary

AEM/Java Technical Lead

Lead solution design and delivery for AEM-based projects. Bridge business and technical teams, define requirements/architecture, and guide a cross-site engineering team through implementation, integration, and rollout.

Job Details

• Analyse business and technical requirements; translate into Software Requirement Specifications, Product Backlogs, and Basic/Detailed Design documents.
• Lead technical workshops to scope feature and system integrations, providing hands-on coding guidance where needed.
• Provide hands-on AEM and Java development leadership, architecture decisions, code review, and debugging support for the team.
• Coordinate between business stakeholders and technical team members, translating requirements both ways.
• Work with client teams and offshore/onshore team members to deliver integrations and system enhancements.
• Guide deployment, rollout, and post-go-live stabilization, including checklists and technical documentation handover.
• Identify and escalate risks to schedule, cost, quality, or resourcing early, working with leadership to resolve them.

Job Requirements

1. Technology, hands-on experience required

• AEM: hands-on experience with AEM 6.2, AEM 6.5, and familiarity with AEM Cloud (architecture differences, dispatcher/publisher config, content authoring, component/template development)
• Java / Backend: Java, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring Reactive; solid grounding in Object-Oriented design; experience with multithreaded/parallel processing applications
• Frontend: JavaScript, HTML, CSS; working knowledge of Angular, ReactJS, or jQuery
• Cloud: working familiarity with Azure Cloud Services (App Services, Storage, basic networking concepts) — deep infra/networking configuration is not required; conceptual understanding sufficient to coordinate with a dedicated cloud/infra team
• Database: MS SQL
• DevOps/Tooling: Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, Git, NewRelic
• Servers: Tomcat, Apache/httpd, Linux fundamentals

2. Leadership & delivery experience

• At least 4 years leading a technical team, including coordination across multiple sites (onshore/offshore)
• Experience conducting technical workshops for feature/module integration, from high-level design down to implementation guidance
• Experience planning and overseeing feature deployments and monitoring post-release stability

3. Domain experience

• At least 4 years of Java Enterprise development
• Prior experience with a CMS platform (AEM strongly preferred)
• Experience proposing application architecture for team members to follow on complex integrations