Talascend is currently seeking a hybrid Senior Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Engineer in Houston, Texas.

Hybrid Schedule:

• In the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
• Work from home on Mondays and Fridays.

Description:
As a Senior AEM Engineer on our client’s Digital Studio Engineering team, you are responsible for architecting, developing, coding, testing, and debugging websites and web applications and producing significant enhancements to existing applications. You will participate in design sessions with architects and other engineers to align digital solutions with business initiatives and coordinate and oversee production releases. You enjoy working on complex projects requiring additional specialized knowledge in website architecture. Day-to-day you will work in an Agile environment with Front-End Engineers, User Experience Designers, Visual Designers, Product Owners, and Business Analysts to translate their digital solutions onto the web.

Team Culture:

• Humble – No ego
• Fun – Celebrate the moments
• Authentic – We are who we are
• Passionate – Love what you do
• Dedicated – To each other and the customer

Experience:
The ideal candidate should:

• Have a minimum of 6 years of experience in architecting and developing AEM applications and at least 2 years of experience in SPA development for AEM.
• Be able to architect and develop large scale web applications in both traditional and headless architectures that can deliver personalized content in multiple languages and countries.
• Participate in technical and functional discussions.
• Understand and collect the business needs and convert them into requirements and use cases, and then design, develop and present the solution to scrum team members.
• Understand installation and configuration of Publishers and Dispatchers. A Have expertise in architecting, developing, and customizing AEM components and services
• Be well versed with Content Fragments, Experience Fragments, and Dictionaries, and Personalization and Content Targeting.
• Be experienced in customizing the UI to enable Content Designers to define content fragment forms.
• Have experience with internationalization and localization
• Have strong experience in building and customizing replication agents, building new agents.
• Use excellent communication skills to collaborate with internal and external developers on strategy and implementation
• Be experienced in Agile methodology, iterative development and JIRA
• Be comfortable working with macOS, Linux, GitHub, JIRA, Jenkins

Responsibilities:

• Work with technical leads to design AEM solutions that support product owners
• Support the planning and delivery of maintenance releases, new development, and site migrations
• Attend product and scrum team meetings as an AEM subject matter expert
• Work collaboratively with front-end developers and content managers when architecting out new components and content fragments
• Work as part of an Agile team to build complex AEM features from user stories
• Plan and execute deployments
• Mentor other developers as they learn AEM and component development
• Help guide the development process for AEM efforts along the most efficient path
• Lead and participate in proof of concepts to advance and improve our technology stack
• Be actively involved with building and maintaining our component library
• Update and maintain current AEM features/components
• Work closely with our Adobe Managed Service partners
• Conduct and participate in code reviews, and write unit tests and ensure appropriate code coverage
• Care deeply about writing high-performance, reusable code that will be used across our product
• Be passionate and proactive about learning and working with new technologies

Additional Preferred Knowledge, Skills or Abilities:

• Experience/knowledge of building web applications with ReactJS or NextJS
• Adobe Certified Expert certification
• Agile/Scrum certification

Pay:

• $70-79 an hour, depending upon experience

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We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those qualified individuals who closely meet the qualifications of the position will be contacted. The details of the position are only a summary, other duties may be assigned as necessary.

Background Check and Drug Screen may be required.

Talascend is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.