Senior Technical Consultant – Digital Web

Senior Technical Consultant (OpenText TeamSite / Adobe AEM)

Experience: Minimum 7 years

Position Summary

As a Senior Technical Consultant, you will work as part of a highly technical team of professionals responsible for the design, development and deployment of web content solutions using OpenText TeamSite and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) products, especially AEM Sites and AEM Forms, to meet business requirements. Strong organisational skills, technical expertise and attention to detail are key in this customer-focused role.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements, using appropriate methods and models, into the right CMS / technology implementation: OpenText TeamSite, AEM Sites, AEM Forms, AEM Assets and Adobe Commerce solutions.

• Evaluate customers' existing infrastructure capacity and performance, plan for future requirements and prepare proposals.

• Evaluate technologies and tools, and identify prospective solutions.

• Work within a highly technical team to provide technical expertise in the design and planning of solutions.

• Assess the impact of project requirements on infrastructure.

• Advise customers on implementation strategy, performance, tools, operations, release and deployment.

• Assess non-functional requirements and propose solutions for availability, backup, capacity, performance, redundancy, reliability, scalability, supportability, risk and cost models.

• Work closely with clients, developers, system administrators and business analysts to build OpenText TeamSite or Adobe AEM Sites and AEM Forms solutions.

• Provide solutions for integrating third-party systems with OpenText TeamSite LiveSite or Adobe CQ as part of the overall architecture.

• Handle demos and proofs of concept (POCs) for clients.

• Architect, design and develop (through the team) solutions for product/project and sustenance delivery.

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to the team.

• Contribute hands-on as part of the team and lead day-to-day technical activities, driving excellence in implementation.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in development and/or administration of OpenText TeamSite and/or AEM Sites / AEM Forms projects.

• 3+ years of core experience developing digital consumer experiences on OpenText TeamSite and/or Adobe AEM Sites and AEM Forms.

• 3+ years of experience developing features such as multi-site and multi-channel delivery, personalisation/targeting, content aggregation and syndication, multilingual support, automated workflow management and social media integration.

• Expertise in CMS design, CRX, CQ WCM, DAM and Social Collaboration.

• Mastery of core web technologies, including XML, XHTML, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5 and JSP, and web services development using RESTful implementations.

• Deep understanding of Java, Java EE, Servlets, JSP, tag libraries and JSTL, with a strong understanding of enterprise Java frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate.

• Excellent verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills.

• Strong ability to interface effectively with clients.

• Knowledge of and experience in configuration planning, testing and change management.

Preferred

• Deep understanding of and hands-on experience with Java CMS frameworks, including Apache Sling for content-centric application development, JCR and JSR-170/JSR-283 for content management, JSR-168 and JSR-286 for portal development, and Apache Felix for OSGi bundle development.

• Proficiency in Day CQ foundational concepts, including the CRX repository, the CQ platform, core frameworks such as Apache Sling and Apache Felix, all Day CQ building blocks (templates, components, dialogs, widgets, etc.), and the CQ development and deployment process.

• Experience implementing more than one CMS technology.

• Exposure to Agile development methodology; ability to act as Scrum Master is a plus.