AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) Architect

Intuition IT is urgently looking for an AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) Architect for an exciting project in the Netherlands.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

A minimally qualified Adobe Experience Manager Architect typically has the following work experience:

- Extensive experience coding with Java/J2EE
- Several years of experience with AEM
- Several years of experience with OSGi framework (Bundles/Services, tag libraries)
- Extensive experience with WCM (Can be any CMS)
- Has been an architect or co-architect on at least three AEM-based solutions or projects
- Has experience with industry standard methodologies such as Agile Scrum and Waterfall
- Has experience with Back End integration and Front End integration
- Has experience utilizing taxonomies within AEM applications
- Has experience working with different persistence architectures (Architectures include: Binary storages, content storages, relational databases, index technologies, and cloud installation)
- Can architect an entire AEM infrastructure/environment
- Can architect an AEM-based solution
- Can complete As Is/Discovery analysis of client architecture
- Must be comfortable creating documents, presenting to customers
- Is capable of abstracting functional requirements based on customer vision
- Is capable of writing coherent functional specifications
- Is capable of identifying colliding requirements and is able to moderate resolution of a functional conflict.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Define and realize the application architecture across multiple projects for a large program
- Analyze business and IT challenges and design a comprehensive solution that integrates smoothly
- Design for reliability, availability, and scalability
- Define, document, and model systems and software architecture
- Engage System Integrators, Vendors
- Represent overall platform architecture Point of View
- Provide technology consulting
- Maximize re-use across programs and projects
- Mentors and coach IT team
- Work with other Architects to ensure enterprise and cross-program architectural cohesion
- Manage the development of business and application models
- Define a content model for content/assets that can accommodate future requirements
- Defines the necessary templates and components based on business requirements
- Identify when to use out-of-the-box components versus custom components
- Create specifications for custom components
- Identify when to use OSGi bundles/services and tag libraries
- Identify when a proof of concept (POC) is needed
- Explain common security models and concepts (for example: LDAP, SSO)
- Determines which storage type to use based upon non-functional business requirements.
- Explain and can apply common performance optimization concepts to customer requirements (for example: caching/CDN, user-generated content)
- Leads the design of workflow models for business processes
- Defines analytics tagging architecture for customer websites
- Creates a security concept for an AEM installation (Users, groups, ACLs, Dispatcher rules,OS-based security)
- Develops migration strategies from Legacy systems to AEM
- Explain localization concepts that could impact content structure, templates and components (i18n), and 3rd-party translations
- Demonstrate knowledge of User Interface (UI) frameworks
- Set up a sufficient testing infrastructure (this includes staging environments, coordination of tests, clarification of which automated and/or manual tests are mandatory)
- should also be familiar with Linux and other Unix systems, Windows Server, networks and network topologies, Web Servers (eg, IIS, Apache), and build environments and Continuous Integration Servers (eg, Jenkins).

Location: Netherlands

Start: ASAP

Duration: 3months +