AEM Developer / Technical Lead

Innova software Services Inc is hiring an experienced AEM Developer / Technical Lead to support large-scale Adobe Experience Manager programs in Fountain Valley, California. This role combines hands-on AEM delivery with technical leadership, with ownership that spans architecture translation, implementation specifications, code quality, and performance-focused engineering.

Working onsite, you will lead a development team while staying directly involved in design, development, estimation, and end-to-end technical delivery for AEM solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead a technical team of approximately 8 to 12 members and take ownership of technical deliverables.
• Define technical designs and translate architecture into detailed implementation specifications.
• Provide technical direction, resolve development roadblocks, and drive end-to-end technical delivery of AEM solutions.
• Develop automated unit tests and promote strong test coverage.
• Define development best practices and ensure adherence to engineering standards.
• Collaborate with architects, business stakeholders, product teams, and development teams.
• Support backlog prioritization, technical estimation, and dependency identification.
• Identify technical blockers associated with user stories and drive resolution.
• Analyze non-functional requirements and define approaches for meeting performance and scalability benchmarks.
• Optimize AEM application performance.
• Estimate modules, features, and user stories.
• Conduct code reviews and maintain high standards for code quality.
• Mentor developers and promote technical best practices.

Requirements

• 8+ years of overall technology experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on AEM development or technical lead experience.
• Strong ability to understand enterprise architecture and translate it into detailed technical designs.
• At least two full lifecycle AEM 6.x implementation experiences, preferably with AEM 6.3 or later.
• Deep expertise developing custom AEM components using JSP and HTL/Sightly.
• Strong experience developing OSGi bundles.
• Knowledge of AEM workflows, user management, roles, and internationalization.
• Experience performing content migration into AEM, including automated migration approaches.
• Experience consuming and integrating REST and SOAP services.
• Strong understanding of application performance optimization and scalability.
• Excellent leadership, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

Technologies

• Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
• JSP
• HTL/Sightly
• OSGi
• REST
• SOAP
• AEM 6.x
• AEM 6.3
• Adobe Launch
• Adobe Analytics

Preferred Qualifications

• AEM Lead Developer or Architect certification.
• Experience with personalization use cases.
• Knowledge of Adobe Launch and Adobe Analytics.
• Agile development experience.
• Experience integrating AEM with eCommerce platforms.
• Understanding of both headless and traditional AEM architectures.
• API development experience.

Job Title: AEM Developer / Technical Lead
Location: Fountain Valley, California
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Experience: 8+ Years