Responsibilities:
- Partner with architecture leaders to define and evolve the strategy for AEM-based web platforms and digital experiences across public and secure websites.
- Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and engineering standards that drive scalability, consistency, and reuse across web applications.
- Lead the architectural direction and adoption of AEM Cloud Service, including modernization and migration initiatives.
- Architect and govern CDN capabilities, including caching strategies, edge configuration, web application firewall (WAF) policies, traffic management, and performance optimization.
- Drive modernization of web platforms and content management solutions to improve scalability, maintainability, and delivery efficiency.
- Provide technical leadership for frontend engineering using modern frameworks and architectures, including React and Web Components.
- Champion modern web engineering practices, including accessibility, responsive design, performance optimization, and secure coding standards.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), providing guidance across AEM Sites, AEM Forms, AEM Assets, and related technologies.
- Architect integrations between web platforms, enterprise services, APIs, identity solutions, and Adobe ecosystem technologies.
- Partner with product, engineering, and architecture teams to conduct design reviews, influence technical decisions, and resolve complex architectural challenges.
- Translate business objectives and product roadmaps into scalable technical solutions and long-term engineering strategies.
- Define and promote secure website delivery patterns, including authentication, content security, and protection of sensitive data.
- Mentor engineers and technical leaders, foster engineering best practices, and maintain architectural standards and documentation.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of ten years related work experience, with at least five years of development experience.
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
- Extensive experience leading enterprise web architecture and engineering initiatives, with a demonstrated ability to drive technical strategy across multiple teams and platforms.
- 5+ years of deep hands-on expertise with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), including headful (Sites/traditional), headless (Content Fragments, GraphQL, Edge Delivery), and AEM Forms spanning architecture, development, and operational concerns.
- Strong command of modern frontend frameworks and technologies, including React, Web Components, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript. Experience with micro-frontend architectures, module federation, or similar patterns for large-scale secure web applications.
- Experience architecting and optimizing high-traffic, customer-facing websites utilizing Akamai CDN or comparable technologies, including caching strategies, edge configuration, WAF, and performance optimization.
- Experience with both secure (authenticated) and public website architectures, including integration with identity providers, session management, and content security.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and experience with AWS services, including compute, networking, storage, serverless, and IAM.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with AEM Cloud Service and leading migration initiatives.
- Expertise with AEM Forms, including adaptive forms, form data models, document services, and forms-centric workflow automation.
- Experience with Adobe marketing stack integration, including Adobe Launch (Tags), Adobe Web SDK, Adobe Target, and Adobe Experience Platform (AEP).
- Familiarity with design system implementation and governance (e.g., Storybook, custom element registries, shared component libraries).
- Exposure to Agentic AI or generative AI-enabled content authoring, experience assembly, or intelligent personalization.
- AEM certifications (Adobe Certified Expert – Sites Architect, Sites Developer, or Forms Developer).
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
Skills Required
- Minimum ten years of related work experience, including at least five years of development experience.
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
- Extensive experience leading enterprise web architecture and engineering initiatives across multiple teams and platforms.
- At least five years of deep hands-on Adobe Experience Manager experience, including Sites, headless AEM, GraphQL, Edge Delivery, and AEM Forms.
- Strong experience with React, Web Components, TypeScript, modern JavaScript, and micro-frontend architectures.
- Experience architecting and optimizing high-traffic websites using Akamai CDN or comparable technologies, caching, edge configuration, WAF, and performance optimization.
- Experience with authenticated and public website architectures, identity providers, session management, and content security.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and AWS services, including compute, networking, storage, serverless, and IAM.
- Graduate degree.
- Experience with AEM Cloud Service and migration initiatives.
- Expertise with AEM Forms, including adaptive forms, form data models, document services, and workflow automation.
- Experience integrating Adobe Launch, Adobe Web SDK, Adobe Target, and Adobe Experience Platform.
- Familiarity with design systems, Storybook, custom element registries, and shared component libraries.
- Exposure to agentic AI or generative AI for content authoring, experience assembly, or personalization.
- AEM certification such as Adobe Certified Expert in Sites Architecture, Sites Development, or Forms Development.
Vanguard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vanguard and has not been reviewed or approved by Vanguard.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support appears unusually strong through a 401(k) design that includes a match plus an additional employer contribution, which can materially lift long-term total rewards. HSA seeding and an enhanced employer match further strengthen the savings-and-benefits value of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle support is reinforced by a sizable annual FlexFund stipend that can be applied across many day-to-day categories such as fitness, childcare, and other personal expenses. On-site or virtual clinics and fitness options add practical health and wellness convenience.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare and related benefits are positioned as comparatively affordable via heavily subsidized medical plans and broad coverage options. This affordability can offset moderate base pay for employees who place higher value on out-of-pocket cost reductions.
Vanguard Insights
What We Do
We are a community of 30 million who think – and feel – differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests. Since our founding in 1975, helping our investors achieve their goals is our sole reason for existence. With no other parties to answer to and therefore no conflicting loyalties, we make every decision—like keeping investing costs as low as possible—with only your needs in mind. Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment companies, offering a large selection of high-quality low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, advice, and related services. Individual and institutional investors, financial professionals, and plan sponsors can benefit from the size, stability, and experience Vanguard offers. As of April 30, 2019, we managed more than $5.6 trillion in global assets. In addition, we have 189 funds in the United States and 225 funds in global markets. For Commenting Guidelines & Important information, visit here: http://vanguard.com/linkedin Vanguard Marketing Corporation, Distributor.
