AEM Architect

We Are:

Accenture Song accelerates growth and value for our clients through sustained customer relevance. Our capabilities span ideation to execution: growth, product and experience design; technology and experience platforms; creative, media and marketing strategy; and campaign, content and channel orchestration. With strong client relationships and deep industry expertise, we help our clients operate at the speed of life through the unlimited potential of imagination, technology and intelligence. Visit us at: www.accenture.com/song

There will never be a typical day at Accenture Song, but that’s why people love it here. The opportunities to make a difference while working on exciting client initiatives are limitless in this ever-changing space.

You Are:

We are looking for a highly effective Senior AEM Architect to join our team. This person will utilize best practices and methodologies to design and implement the best solution for our clients. This key member of our team contributes to the entire software development lifecycle including analysis, requirement specification, use case and data modeling, development, testing, and implementation as well as educating and leading others in the form of code reviews, workshops, and documentation.

The Work:

• Lead large scale AEM technical requirements

• Responsible for supporting any new business development activities or RFPs

• Technical grooming for functional stories and create tech design documentation for development team

• Responsible for providing platform governance and operational guidelines following best practices in multi-tenant environment

• Support development team in designing and troubleshooting any environment issues

• Impact analysis and effort estimations on change request

• Assesses work effort for time to complete estimates

• Build multi-view architecture diagrams for different stakeholders and meeting their prospects

• Interact with client technical leads and architects in support of physical and integration architecture

• Interact with engagement and project managers to ensure proper adherence to SDLC and to conduct project risk identification and mitigation planning

• Participates in the software design, software development, and package implementation using standard WCM or eCommerce platforms such as Adobe AEM (CQ), SDL Tridion, hybris and Oracle/ATG

• Provides advanced-level development, testing, debugging and documentation skills

• Provides oversight, planning, and technical guidance to ensure successful delivery of software projects

• Ensures software developed adheres to best practices and quality standards through code and design reviews

• Vendor management with AMS team

Here’s what you’ll need:

• 7+ years experience designing Adobe Experience Manager solutions

• 5+ years experience leading teams and technical project requirements

• 5+ years of hands on Java & J2EE/JEE software development experience

• 3+ years of experience designing solutions with related techs (Target, Analytics, AEP etc…)

• University degree or equivalent work experience

• Bilingual communications in French and English are required for this position

• English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with stakeholders across Canada, US and other countries across our Global footprint where English is the common language. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.

Bonus Points if You Have:

• AEM Architect Certified

• Experience working with WCM platforms and tools such as SDL Tridion, Sitecore, Fatwire, CrownPeak, hybris, Oracle/ATG Demandware, Intershop and IBM WebSphere Commerce

• Experience in multiple web technologies including: XML, HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, AJAX / JavaScript, Web Services/SOAP, SQL

• Experience with one or more Java concepts and patterns including: Java/J2EE, JSP, Spring, Sling, JMS, JUnit, AOP, MVC, Eclipse

• Experience and full lifecycle involvement with both waterfall and Agile methodologies

• Experience with multiple source control systems: CVS, SVN, Git

• Working knowledge of multiple web and application tier technologies: Tomcat, WebSphere, Weblogic, Apache Http, Spring tcServer, Solr, open source packages Experience with project automation technology: Jenkins, Continuum, Hudson, automated unit testing, Maven, Ant Experience with the performance tuning and analysis: thread dump analysis, heap dump analysis, profilers, performance troubleshooting

• Experience with web application design and analysis, design patterns, and object oriented design

• Experience with multiple Unix/Linux operating systems

• Ability and willingness to split time between management and hands-on software design, development, and review

• Strong leadership skills, including the ability to deliver constructive feedback and the ability to lead by example

• Hands on experience estimating development tasks

• Ability to anticipate issues and formulate remedial actions

• Experience managing and/or being managed by remote teams/offices

• Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills

• Experience in a consulting environment

• Demonstrated leadership in professional setting; either military or civilian

• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting; either military or civilian

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Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range
British Columbia/Ontario $99,450 to $209,900

Toronto, Ontario

Montreal, Quebec

Ottawa, Ontario

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