AEM Architect (Adobe Experience Manager)

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Company Description

Merkle, a dentsu company, powers the experience economy. For more than 35 years, the company has put people at the heart of its approach to digital business transformation. As the only integrated experience consultancy in the world with a heritage in data science and business performance, Merkle delivers holistic, end-to-end experiences that drive growth, engagement, and loyalty. Merkle's expertise has earned recognition as a "Leader" by top industry analyst firms, in categories such as digital transformation and commerce, experience design, engineering and technology integration, digital marketing, data science, CRM and loyalty, and customer data management. With more than 16,000 employees, Merkle operates in 30+ countries throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. For more information, visit www.merkle.com.

Role Overview

Join Our Team: We are a dynamic and interdisciplinary team of designers, consultants, and software engineers, passionate about creating exceptional user experiences and multi-channel strategies using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). We value innovation, collaboration, and the sharing of knowledge.

Your Role: As an AEM Architect, you will be a key player in our projects, holding overarching responsibility within your area of expertise. You will contribute to project success, customer development, and acquisition. With your proven track record of successful and sustainable performance, you will ensure customer satisfaction, budget adherence, and a high level of professional expertise.

You will be reporting to our Content Platforms Director.

This role offers a hybrid work mode. Depending on the project scope, you may be onsite at the client's in Geneva one day a week.

Here are some of the exciting tasks awaiting you: 

• Oversee the development of complex web applications to enable great user experiences and multi-channel strategies based on AEM.
• Lead the entire software development process, from analysis through execution.
• Work with large B2B & B2C companies or organizations with strong web-affinity.
• Mentor younger team members and share your knowledge internally and externally.
• Drive architectural decisions, technology evaluations, and proof of concepts (PoCs) for client use cases.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable AEM and Adobe Experience Cloud solutions.
• Provide technical leadership to development teams, including code reviews, mentorship, and guidance on scalable and maintainable solutions.

A mix of the following is the person we are looking for: 

• Proven experience with the AEM framework and the Adobe Experience Cloud.
• Strong knowledge of current web technologies (Java/J2EE) and standard software frameworks (Spring).
• Experience with AEM technologies (e.g., Apache Sling, Sling models, HTL/Sightly).
• Expertise in software architecture and technical design.
• Knowledge of SQL, Apache Jackrabbit Oak, Web Services (SOA), XML, XSL, JavaScript, HTML, AJAX.
• Experience with development environments such as Eclipse or IntelliJ.
• Experience with other Java-based CMS solutions, such as Magnolia, is a plus.
• Ability to provide technical leadership to development teams, including code reviews, mentorship, and guidance on scalable and maintainable solutions.
• Enjoy working in an interdisciplinary team, being tolerant and open.
• Very good English skills, very good French is a plus.

Additional information

We work with motivated people, who support and enrich each other. We live the possibilities of the digital world through home office, meaning you can work anywhere (within Switzerland) with flexible (annual) working hours. We also value face-to-face exchanges in our offices (Geneva, Zurich, Lausanne, St. Gallen).

These are some of the things we offer: 

• 25 days of holidays & 3 wellness days
• 2 volunteer days for charitable activities
• 40-hour week & overtime compensation 
• Flexible working hours model (flextime)
• Independent home office management 
• State-of-the-art, creative office space with ergonomically equipped workstations
• Full access to Dentsu Academy, on-site learning sessions, online language courses
• Multiple discounts e.g. for gym, mobile plans, tech equipment, car dealers

If you feel inspired by us, we will probably be inspired by you. Join us now and apply online to make sure we match each other's expectations. We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/worldview, disability, age, as well as sexual orientation and identity.

We look forward to hearing from you!

#LI-MERKLE #LI-Hybrid #LI-DOMI

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