Senior Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Developer Arrow Electronics Inc

Position: Senior Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Developer / Architect

Job Description:

This role is responsible for designing, building, and optimizing Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) solutions to power Arrow Digital s customer-focused digital experience. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in AEM architecture, component development, and cloud-based optimizations, with a deep understanding of best practices for security, performance, and scalability. This candidate should be experienced AEM Headless Architect with deep expertise in React-based front-end architectures, Server-Side Rendering (SSR), and API-driven integrations using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) as a pure headless CMS.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Architect end-to-end headless solutions using AEM as a content source and React/Next.js for rendering.

• Design SSR and SSG architectures leveraging Next.js or similar frameworks for high-performance and SEO-friendly sites.

• Define and implement AEM Headless content models (Content Fragments, Models, and APIs) that support omnichannel delivery.

• Architect, develop, and maintain scalable AEM components following Adobe best practices and focusing on reusability.

• Lead AEM template, workflow, and dispatcher configurations, ensuring high availability and performance.

• Guide AEM Cloud implementations, ensuring alignment with Adobe s evolving cloud-native capabilities.

• Collaborate with system administrators, DevOps, and security teams on deployments, optimizations, and system upgrades.

• Serve as a technical leader, providing mentorship to developers and ensuring adherence to AEM development standards.

• Troubleshoot complex authoring, performance, and integration issues across the AEM platform.

• Oversee and optimize AEM integrations with Adobe CJA Analytics, Adobe Launch, and third-party services.

• Define and enforce security, accessibility, SEO, UX, and analytics best practices.

• Lead code reviews, technical design sessions, and solution architecture discussions.

• Maintain and evolve comprehensive technical documentation.

• Collaborate with stakeholders and product teams, aligning AEM capabilities with business goals.

• Provide leadership in Agile/Scrum environments, ensuring efficient sprint planning and execution.

Qualifications:

• 11+ years of overall experience in software development, with at least 7+ years of hands-on AEM experience.

• Extensive experience in AEM core technologies (Apache Sling, OSGi, JCR/CRX, AEM Workflows, AEM Dispatcher).

• Expertise in AEM as a Cloud Service, including modern cloud deployment strategies.

• Strong experience with HTL (Sightly), Java, JavaScript, ReactJS, NextJS, and NodeJS.

• In-depth understanding of J2EE architecture and scalable web application design.

• Strong experience with SSR, caching strategies, and performance optimizations.

• Hands-on experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automation.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) knowledge is a plus.