AEM Architect Sr

Job Title:
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Architect

Work Location:
Taylor, TX, 76574

Job Duration: 12 months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type:
Hybrid

Pay Rate: $75 to $85 Per Hr

Tek Wissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American organization that operates Texas's electrical grid, the Texas Interconnection, which supplies power to more than 25 million Texas customers and represents 90 percent of the state's electric load. Our client is the first independent system operator (ISO) in the United States and one of nine ISOs in North America.

Our client works with the Texas Reliability Entity (TRE), one of eight regional entities within the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) that coordinate to improve reliability of the bulk power grid. Our client is a membership-based 501(c) nonprofit corporation, and its members include consumers, electric cooperatives, generators, power marketers, retail electric providers, investor‑owned electric utilities (transmission and distribution providers), and municipally owned electric utilities.

• We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Architect to lead the design, implementation, and governance of enterprise‑scale digital experience platforms.
• This role demands deep technical mastery of AEM Sites, Assets, Forms, and Cloud Service — paired with architectural vision to build scalable, performant, and maintainable solutions aligned with business goals.
• The ideal candidate will serve as the technical authority on AEM across development team, bridging business requirements with platform capabilities while mentoring team and driving best practices.
• AEM Sites
• AEM Assets
• AEM Forms
• OSGi / Felix
• Sling Framework
• JCR / Oak
• HTL / Sightly
• CDN / Fastly

• Design end‑to‑end AEM architectures for multi‑site, multi‑tenant, and multi‑lingual enterprise deployments including author/publish topology, dispatcher configuration, and CDN integration.
• Define content architecture, JCR repository structure, taxonomy, tagging strategies, and metadata schemas to support scalable content management.
• Architect reusable component libraries (Core Components, custom), page templates, editable templates, and Style Systems aligned with design systems.
• Lead AEM Cloud Service migration strategy including assessment, content migration planning, custom code refactoring, and go‑live execution.
• Design integrations with Adobe Experience Cloud (Analytics, Target, Campaign, Launch/Tags) and third‑party platforms via APIs, event‑driven architectures, and webhooks.

• Own and govern the AEM codebase including OSGi bundles, Sling Models, Servlets, Workflows, Schedulers, and custom AEM applications.
• Establish and enforce development standards: coding conventions, PR review processes, unit testing (AEM Mocks / Mockito), integration testing, and documentation.
• Design and implement AEM as a Cloud Service pipelines (Frontend, Full Stack, Config) via Adobe Cloud Manager with quality gates.
• Build and maintain Dispatcher configurations for caching, URL rewriting, security headers, and load balancing across environments.
• Implement DAM workflows, asset rendition pipelines, Smart Tags integration, and metadata management strategies in AEM Assets.

• Conduct performance profiling using tools such as AEM Request Log Analyzer, YSlow, and APM platforms; optimize component rendering, query performance (Oak index tuning), and cache strategies.
• Enforce security best practices including service user configuration, ACL design, CSRF protection, Sling Security configurations, and Adobe IMS integration.
• Define and manage replication topologies, content distribution (Sling Content Distribution), and live copy / MSM strategies for global rollouts.
• Monitor AEM Cloud Service environments via Adobe Cloud Manager logs, New Relic, and Splunk; establish alerting and on‑call runbooks.

• Partner with Product Owners, UX designers, and…