Digital Experience Lead Software Engineer (AEM, Full Stack)

Lead the design, development, and optimization of AEM Sites and Assets solutions. Lead the development of AEM components, templates, dialogs, clientlibs, and authoring workflows using HTL (Sightly), Sling Models, OSGi services, and JCR APIs. Define content architecture, tagging, and metadata strategies; implement content fragments, experience fragments, and multi-site management. Implement integrations (REST/GraphQL) and authentication (SAML/OAuth) with external systems, ensuring secure data flows. Drive performance tuning and reliability, including caching, dispatcher rules, image optimization, client-side performance, and monitoring. Establish engineering standards, including code reviews, unit/integration testing, CI/CD, dependency management, and documentation. Mentor engineers and collaborate with authors to enhance authoring UX, governance, and content lifecycle. Coordinate with QA to build automated functional tests and regression suites for components and content models. Contribute to roadmap planning, estimation, and risk management; communicate trade-offs and best practices.