AEM Architect in Chicago, IL (3 days/week onsite)

Role: AEM Architect
Location: North Chicago, IL (3 days/week onsite)

Duration: Long term contract - 1 year

Job Description:
Architect will design and govern robust Adobe AEM solutions across sites, forms, frontend and backend capabilities for global clients, translating business requirements into scalable architectures that enhance digital experience, optimize content operations and align with hybrid work practices while supporting manufacturing and supply chain and research and development use cases in a day shift role.
Required Skills:
AEM Forms, AEM Sites - Architect, Adobe AEM, AEM Backend, AEM Frontend
Job Responsibilities:
-Design end to end Adobe AEM architectures that integrate forms sites frontend and backend components to deliver consistent and scalable digital experiences for global stakeholders across a hybrid work environment.
-Drive solution blueprints for complex AEM implementations by translating business goals into technical designs that emphasize performance security maintainability and reuse across multiple product lines.
-Oversee configuration and customization of AEM sites and related modules to support content authoring workflows multilingual experiences and personalized journeys that improve customer engagement and satisfaction.
-Guide development teams on AEM frontend implementation including component driven design responsive layouts and client side optimization to ensure accessible fast and intuitive interfaces.
-Direct backend solution patterns for AEM including service layer design integration patterns and content modeling so that systems are loosely coupled resilient and easier to evolve over time.
-Coordinate with enterprise architects product owners and manufacturing and supply chain stakeholders to align AEM capabilities with operational process optimization and digital thread initiatives.
-Partner with research and development teams to explore innovative AEM use cases experimentation frameworks and proof of concept efforts that accelerate product innovation and knowledge sharing.
-Establish reference architectures coding standards and review practices for Adobe AEM solutions so that delivery quality remains consistently high across distributed teams working in a hybrid model.
-Collaborate with security and compliance experts to embed privacy data protection and access control requirements within AEM solutions while meeting industry regulations and internal governance expectations.
-Optimize AEM performance by defining caching strategies content structure guidelines and monitoring dashboards that enable proactive detection and resolution of issues before they impact business operations.
-Coordinate cross functional work planning for AEM releases including estimation technical risk assessment dependency mapping and deployment strategies to minimize disruption during business hours.
-Support content authors and business users by shaping intuitive templates components and workflows that reduce manual effort accelerate content publishing and improve time to market for campaigns.
-Document solution decisions patterns and runbooks in clear and reusable formats to enable knowledge transfer onboarding of new team members and sustainable long term platform ownership across the organization.
Qualifications:
-Require extensive hands on experience designing and implementing Adobe AEM solutions across forms sites frontend and backend modules with a strong focus on large scale enterprise deployments.
-Require proven background in AEM sites architecture including content modeling template frameworks component design and workflow configuration to support complex business structures.
-Require strong understanding of web technologies including modern frontend approaches Java based backend development and integration techniques applicable within the Adobe AEM ecosystem.
-Require ability to collaborate with cross functional stakeholders in a hybrid work arrangement while communicating complex architectural concepts in clear and practical terms.
-Nice to have experience applying AEM capabilities to manufacturing and supply chain business scenarios such as product information distribution dealer portals and field enablement solutions.
-Nice to have exposure to research and development environments where digital platforms support collaboration experiment tracking and knowledge management for innovation programs.
-Nice to have familiarity with cloud based hosting models for AEM and related DevOps practices that improve reliability observability and continuous delivery across environments.
Certifications Required:
Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Architect
or
Equivalent advanced certification in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM