AEM Architect

AEM Architect

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Total Experience: 14 - 20 years overall
• AEM Experience: 7 - 10 years with AEM 6.x and/or AEM as a Cloud Service (AEMaaCS)
• Core Technologies: AEM Solution Architecture, AEM 6.x / AEMaaCS, CDN (Akamai/CloudFront/Cloudflare/Fastly), Frontend (React/Angular/Vue), Headless AEM, BFF (Node.js/Java/Spring Boot), GraphQL/REST, Dispatcher, DevOps, CI/CD, Security

Expert level AEM knowledge, including:

• Sling, OSGi, JCR, HTL
• Dispatcher, workflows, MSM

Strong experience across:

• CDN and edge architectures
• Modern Frontend frameworks and SPA patterns
• BFF and API driven architectures
• DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, cloud deployments
• Security, authentication, and authorization

Roles & Responsibilities

AEM Architecture & Content Platforms

• Design and own enterprise scale AEM architectures, including:
  • AEM Sites, Assets, Headless & Hybrid implementations
  • Component and template frameworks
  • Content models, taxonomies, and content structures
  • Workflows, MSM, localization, and multi site strategies
• Architect Dispatcher, caching strategies, performance tuning, and scalability patterns
• Drive best practices for AEMaaCS, cloud readiness, and platform modernization

CDN & Edge Architecture

• Architect and configure CDN platforms such as:
  • Akamai, CloudFront, Cloudflare, Fastly
• Define and optimize:
  • Edge caching and routing strategies
  • Image optimization and media delivery
  • Web Application Firewall (WAF) and bot mitigation
• Partner with security and infrastructure teams to ensure high availability and resilience

Frontend Architecture

• Lead Frontend architecture using:
  • React, Angular, Vue
• Design and govern:
  • SPA and Micro Frontend patterns
  • Integration of Frontend apps with AEM (SPA Editor, Headless APIs)
• Establish performance, accessibility, and UX best practices

Backend for Frontend (BFF) & APIs

• Design and implement BFF layers using:
  • Node.js, Java, Spring Boot
• Integrate BFF services with:
  • AEM Headless APIs (GraphQL, REST, Sling Models)
• Define API contracts, orchestration patterns, and scalability strategies

Enterprise Integrations

• Architect integrations with:
  • CRM and commerce platforms
  • Identity and access management systems (OAuth2, SAML, JWT)
  • Analytics, personalization, and marketing cloud platforms
• Ensure secure, performant, and maintainable integration patterns

Preferred Qualifications

• Adobe Certifications (AEM Architect / Developer or equivalent)
• Hands on experience with AEMaaCS migrations
• Multi brand, multi region, and multi language platform architectures
• Experience with Dynamic Media, image/video optimization
• Personalization and analytics integrations (Adobe Target, Adobe Analytics)

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

• Provide architectural leadership across delivery teams
• Lead design reviews, technical decisioning, and governance forums
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and guide root cause analysis
• Mentor developers and architects; uplift engineering maturity
• Work in Agile delivery models, partnering with Product, QA, and DevOps teams
• Act as a trusted technical advisor for US customers and stakeholders
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills for US customers

About Us

Apptad offers strategic consulting, enterprise information management and digital transformation services. With globally connected offices in US and India along with a team of trained and certified IT resources, Apptad ensures quick and effective delivery to its customers.Apptad is relentlessly reinventing the outlook of how companies leverage data.

With an effort to enable our customers the ability to solve biggest problems within their organization.We perceive our clients problems and respond with custom solutions instead of handing over boilerplate responses.

OUR MISSION

• Customer Focus: We listen carefully to the needs of our clients so that we know what s important for their business and can design a customized solution for their business.
• Innovation: As a firm, we believe in constantly upgrading ourselves and improving our solutions to adapt to the changing landscape of technology.
• Accountability and Ethics: We believe in taking our commitments as seriously as our customers and living up to them while building trust for a long term business relationship.