COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Blue Acorn iCi is a digital consultancy focused on delivering innovative solutions across customer experience, commerce, and data. Our team of over 400 experts enable clients to navigate large-scale, digital transformation programs.
Whether it’s a digitally savvy consumer brand or a legacy manufacturer, Blue Acorn iCi empowers businesses with digital scalability to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer experience. With services that include strategy, analytics, design, and engineering, we elevate global brands across industries such as media, consumer goods & retail, financial services, manufacturing, technology and more.
Join our innovative and collaborative team as we deliver extraordinary digital experiences for some of the world’s largest brands!
POSITION SUMMARY:
Blue Acorn iCi is looking for an AEM Technical Lead with Alpine JS experience who is available to work on-site in one of the following locations: Bellevue, WA - Herndon, VA - Atlanta, GA - Overland Park, KS - Dallas, TX. to join a project working alongside our delivery team on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) projects. The Technical Lead provides oversight and technical project management to ensure quality of work performed. Aids in team system setup, code reviews, knowledge transfer, mentoring, and leadership in challenging project tasks. The Technical Lead is also responsible for helping to bridge the business and technical gaps on a project by working with the Business Systems Analyst, Project Manager, and external stakeholders to best understand the project environment, constraints, and business goals.
ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Able to work on-site in one of the following locations: Bellevue, WA - Herndon, VA - Atlanta, GA - Overland Park, KS - Dallas, TX
- Develop, implement, and configure web content management solutions using AEM and technologies such as Java, HTML/DHTML, XML, JavaScript, and web services
- Assist clients in achieving strategic objectives through technology solution implementation
- Setup and configuration of AEM development environments
- Setup and configuration of AEM Author and Publish instances and ensuring all code works in both environments
- Setup and configuration of dispatcher or proxy to run in front of AEM
- Translating business requirements into technical details relevant to AEM
- Ensure quality of code is high for themselves and other team members
- Designing reusable AEM components for authoring content
- Understand the client’s technical environment and how they use technology to provide the best, focused advice
- Provide input into estimating engagement activities and execute engagements following the Agile methodology including SCRUM
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science and/or equivalent experience in the development industry
- 3+ years of web content management system experience working with one or more CMS packages, including Adobe Experience Manager version 6.0 or above (version 6.5 a plus)
- Experience with Alpine JS and Vanilla JS preferred
- Typescript experience
- Web portal back-end development experience
- Strong Java/J2EE/JSP experience – minimum of 3 years developing large system applications
- Working knowledge and understanding of the following: JCR, Apache Sling, Apache Felix, OSGi, REST, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON, HTML, CSS
- Ability to lead technical teams of 2-6 in size and drive technical direction
- Ability to juggle multiple projects while meeting stringent deadlines
PREFERRED SKILLS & TECHNOLOGIES:
- AEM Developer or Architect certification
- Additional technical certifications a plus
- Experience with data migration and/or AEM upgrades
- Experience with all technical aspects of an AEM project including (but not limited to) environment setup, code base creation, components, templates, OSGi configuration, dispatcher setup and config, and code deployments
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What We Do
Blue Acorn iCi is an e-commerce consulting firm that helps online retailers increase sales, profitability, and ROI.
