Location: Jersey City, NJ, United States

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Asset Wealth Management, Digital Marketing Team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

We are seeking an AEM Developer to lead the design, development, and optimization of AEM Sites and Assets solutions. The ideal candidate has extensive experience building reusable components and templates, as well as architecting content models in AEM. You will partner with Product, Design, and Platform teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing digital experiences.

Job responsibilities

• 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.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 7–10+ years of software development, with 5+ years focused on AEM (Sites/Assets).
• Expertise in AEM component development with HTL, Sling Models, OSGi, JCR, and Granite/Coral UI.
• Front-end development experience using ReactJS is recommended, along with familiarity with front-end tooling (ES6/TypeScript, CSS/SASS).
• Experience with AEM Assets processing, DAM workflows, and custom metadata schemas.
• Experience with Adobe Target, Analytics, Launch, and integration patterns across Adobe Experience Cloud is a plus.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices for AEM, including infrastructure-as-code, environment automation, and blue‑green deployment strategies.
• Understanding of accessibility (WCAG), internationalization, and SEO best practices for AEM Sites.
• Knowledge of GraphQL for AEM content fragments and headless delivery.
• Strong skills in Java (11+), Maven, and Git.
• Solid understanding of AEM security, service pack upgrades, permissions, workflows, and multi-tenant/multi-site architectures.
• Experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, Selenium/Cypress (or equivalent), and AEM Mocks.
• Knowledge of performance optimization and observability (logs, metrics, alerts).