Senior AEM Engineer

About the Role

Senior engineer on the Lilt AEM Connector – responsible for owning the connector architecture, shaping the long‑term product roadmap, and ensuring successful enterprise deployments across a diverse range of AEM content topologies.

• Own the connector architecture and long‑term product roadmap for the Lilt AEM Connector.
• Define and maintain the canonical AEM site structures the connector explicitly supports, and advise customers on how their specific topology maps to those structures.
• Guide customers through AEM Translation Integration Framework setup: language masters, language copies, MSM/Live Copy topology, Experience Fragment hierarchies, and cloud configurations relative to Lilt's connector.
• Work directly with enterprise customers to capture feature requirements, validate configurations, and establish long‑term best practices.
• Define and document canonical patterns for translation project creation, Content Fragment localization, DAM asset translation, and auto‑archiving workflows.
• Partner with Solutions and Account teams for pre‑sales technical evaluation, onboarding, and escalation triage.
• Train and enable internal teams on connector capabilities, OSGi configuration options, and troubleshooting patterns.
• Deliver new connector capabilities through the full cycle: CI (Git Hub Actions), E2E Cypress tests, package deployment via Cloud Manager and RDE.

• 5+ years of professional AEM development on AEM Cloud Service (AEMaaCS), with a track record of owning a production AEM implementation end to end – architecture, implementation, deployment, and field reliability.
• Deep knowledge of AEM content architecture: JCR/Sling resource model, OSGi service components, AEM Sites, DAM, and Content Fragments.
• Java/OSGi bundle authoring: services, schedulers, Sling jobs, event listeners, servlets, and Sling Models.
• Deep understanding of AEM Translation Integration Framework: language master setup, language copies, Translation Projects, Translation Jobs, and MSM/Live Copy inheritance hierarchies.
• Fluency in AEM content topology nuances – including where standard Adobe guidance does not apply (e.g., Experience Fragments outside language master hierarchies, non‑page trunk nodes, customer‑specific site structures).
• Ability to debug JCR node type conflicts and content tree issues across diverse customer environments.
• Customer‑facing technical experience: configuring AEM environments, leading implementation workshops, writing best‑practice documentation, and guiding enterprise rollouts.
• Comfort reasoning about complex multilingual content topologies – multi‑region, multi‑language‑copy sites, shared Live Copy inheritance.

• Prior AEM connector or TMS connector development (Sling connector framework, Translation API integration, XLIFF handling).
• Content Fragments, Experience Fragments, and Headless AEM (Graph
  
  QL / Content Services).
• OSGi configuration management – including config file authoring, Felix console operations, and Repoinit scripting.
• AEM Cloud Manager, RDE (Rapid Development Environments), and package deployment lifecycle.
• Experience navigating plugin interplay in complex AEM environments where multiple third‑party extensions are installed.
• Adobe I/O Events or AEM Eventing for reactive/webhook‑based integration patterns.
• AEM security model: service users, CUGs, replication agents, and permission‑aware content access.

• Prior experience building or maintaining a packaged AEM extension or AEM archetype‑based product.
• Familiarity with AEM Launches (content fork/stage/merge workflows) and how they interact with translation pipelines.
• Familiarity with localization/TMS workflows: XLIFF, Translation Memory, MT vs. human translation pipelines.
• AEM certifications (Developer or Architect).
• Experience with Cypress‑based E2E testing in an AEM environment.

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