Sr. Consultant – AEM Developer - Digital Velocityat CDW Careers

The primary purpose of this position is to provide advanced Digital consulting solutions to clients. This position may perform activities such as design, systems integration, and testing.  

This particular role will focus on building software solutions using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and related Adobe products that meet the business needs of our clients.    

This role can be based out of most major US cities with up to 30% travel, and the option to work from home when not at customer sites. 

Primary Duties & Responsibilities 

• Performs a variety of billable consulting activities in support of clients’ objectives, which may include, but are not limited to: 
  • Software Development 
  • Application Administration and Configuration 
  • Application Integration 
  • Marketing technology consulting 
  • Software Testing 
  • DevOps engineering 
• Leads code or other technical reviews and presents constructive feedback to technical team 
• Participates in requirements gathering activities, examining the entire business application from the aspects of the workflow and the end user 
• Builds focused relationships with clients to identify business challenges 
• Makes recommendations to solve client problems 
• Documents completed technical work for clients 
• Maintains technical specifications throughout a project 
• Contributes and develops best practices, strategies, methodologies and documentation/templates suitable for reuse by other Consultants and Analysts 
• Achieves high level of Client Satisfaction on all consulting engagements by executing to achieve client project expectations 
• Develops strong client relationships and trust to secure future business 
• Reviews and understands all assigned Statement of Work (SOW) obligations prior to services delivery 
• Assists with Digital and Adobe practice presales activities 
• Provides technical perspective to ensure a realistic estimation of scope, cost and level of effort for proposal generation 
• Serves as a point of contact to the client for technical issues and status 
• Mentors less senior coworkers and serves as escalation point for their technical related project issues 
• As needed, steps into team leadership roles and empowers others to increase contribution and level of responsibility 
• Complies with all time compliance and time entry guidelines 
• Meets billable utilization targets 
• Training/Certifications - Engages in professional development, including obtaining industry related certifications as directed by management, to maintain continued growth in professional skills and knowledge 
• Administrative Overhead – Responds to email, phone calls, completes timecards in a timely manner, expense reports and status reports as required 

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field 
• At least five (5) years of related work experience with one or more Digital solutions in the Sirius portfolio, including hands on development experience with each of the following: 
  • AEM Sites (v6.4/v6.5 and/or Cloud Service)
  • AEM Assets (v6.4/v6.5 and/or Cloud Service)

Other Required Qualifications 

• Demonstrated knowledge, implementation skills, and understanding of the core AEM Sites and Assets stack and AEM architectural concepts 
• Experience with AEM Sites and Assets administration, upgrades and migrations 
• Experience developing custom AEM Sites and Assets components, templates, and workflows 
• Experience integrating AEM with other Adobe and non-Adobe products
• Experience with core frameworks, such as Java EE, Apache, Felix, OSGI, Apache Sling, and Sightly
• Experience with RESTful services  
• Demonstrated ability with JavaScript libraries, such as (jQuery, React and/or Angular), HTML, CSS, and JavaScript  
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with a wide variety of client and Sirius team members, including management and technical staff 
• Demonstrated ability to investigate complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors from multiple solutions and/or disciplines 
• Demonstrated understanding of core business functions of a typical company, and ability to employ step by step logic to solve business problems 
• Experience as a member of a technical project team, from design through delivery 
• Experience troubleshooting and identifying potential problems and making appropriate changes as necessary 
• Experience creating technical documentation and communicating effectively in various written formats 
• Demonstrated ability to provide guidance and leadership to less experienced technical team members, including delegating technical tasks, and at times resolving issues of poor technical execution without escalation 
• Demonstrated presentation and communication skills, including effectively communicating one-on-one, and in small and large groups, using a variety of presentation methods to sustain the audiences’ engagement 
• Demonstrated time management and organizational skills; ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously 
• Demonstrated ability to establish positive working relationships and conduct complex and important work critical to the organization in a team consulting environment 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Consulting experience, especially in an agency or global systems integrator environment
• Demonstrated ability to use common Java design patterns and a working knowledge of AEM best practices to create custom templates, components, workflows and dialogs 
• Experience with AEM as a Cloud Service
• Experience with configuring and using Cloud Manager for AEM deployments
• Experience with AEM Multi Site Manager, AEM Forms, Adobe Campaign and/or Adobe Target 
• Demonstrated knowledge of Java development and deployment tools, such as Eclipse, Maven, and Git  
• Experience developing systems using Agile methodologies  
• Experience in documenting user stories, system test scripts, and user acceptance test script 
• Demonstrated knowledge of Business Analysis modeling tools (e.g. Activity Diagrams, Process Flows, State Diagrams) 
• Certifications in relevant areas of specialty:
  • AEM Certified Expert - Developer 
  • AEM Certified Expert – Dev/Ops Engineer