Verizon Looking for Principal Engineer – Adobe Experience Manager at Basking Ridge, NJ  Full Time

When you join Verizon

Verizon is one of the world’s leading providers of technology and communications services, transforming the way we connect across the globe. We’re a diverse network of people driven by our shared ambition to shape a better future. Here, we have the ability to learn and grow at the speed of technology, and the space to create within every role. Together, we are moving the world forward – and you can too. Dream it. Build it. Do it here.

What you’ll be doing…

You’ll take ownership of issues and their successful resolution. You’re proactive, driven to find improvement opportunities, and creative and persistent in solving problems. Your time management, prioritization, and planning skills help you thrive in a multifaceted work environment and keep a laser-sharp focus on work and timelines.

This Principal Adobe Experience Manager Engineer role will be responsible for the technical leadership, planning and management of Digital Customer Experience initiatives.

• Participating in all aspects of the software development lifecycle which includes estimating, technical design, implementation, documentation, testing, deployment and support of applications developed for our clients.
• Leveraging design and development experience with web applications using the Adobe platform, including site structure, multi-site manager, custom components, custom workflows, OSGi frameworks, object model designs (Java APIs), and unit testing.
• Collaborating with functional stakeholders, development and architecture teams to deliver public facing site, content and asset management solution.
• Leading technical design, guide development and testing to achieve business outcomes.
• Producing detailed documentation to facilitate institutional knowledge transfer, such as data flow diagrams, ERDs, etc. Represent technical design and delivery in cross-functional planning and status meetings, including executive level.
• Actively participate in all agile ceremonies (planning, refinement, daily scrums, demos, retrospectives, PI Planning).
• Mentor other team members and facilitate their technical progression.
• Working closely with our clients on critical digital transformation programs which drive the customer experience, optimize costs, create efficiencies and deliver business outcomes.
• Responsible for the leadership, planning and management of assigned Digital Marketing client engagements and participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle which includes estimating, technical design, implementation, documentation, testing, deployment and support of application developed for our clients.
• Working closely with clients, designers, product owners, developers, system administrators, project managers, business analysts and end users to build a state-of-the-art Digital Platform using Adobe’s Digital Marketing Product Suite.
• Championing engineering rigor throughout all AEM projects by promoting concepts such as Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration and detailed documentation.
• Be the point person for implementation strategies based on business needs, long-term strategy, and creative design.
• Providing technical guidance to AEM developers around best practices in AEM development – both back-end and front-end execution.
• Be hands-on with the code when needed.
• Providing architectural guidance/input around server environment configuration, clustering, caching, CDN usage, security, etc.
• Managing project teams of 10 or more AEM developers in both onsite and remote, global locations
• Creating collateral for efficient implementation of AEM projects.
• Working with remote delivery teams.

Where you’ll be working…

In this hybrid role, you’ll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager. This role will be based out of one of the locations listed in the posting.

What we’re looking for…

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in Content Management Systems (CMS), Identity Access Management, Federated Search and UI/UX design
• Experience conceptualizing, design, building and deploying Adobe Marketing Cloud solutions with Adobe AEM (Sites and Assets 6.4 or greater), Target and Analytics applications.

Even better if you have one or more of the following skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.
• Knowledge of business processes, agile development methodologies along with a strong analytical skills.
• Experience developing and delivering full-lifecycle software projects.
• Experience in implementing Single Page applications both within AEM and as headless systems.
• Experience in building real world and scalable Node JS applications and decoupled single page web applications with React Experience in optimizing performance for high traffic, public facing applications.
• Experience with SSO Implementations with both OAuth and SP initiated login.
• Knowledge in JavaScript on both server and client side environments.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token Familiarity with modern build pipelines and tools.
• Production experience building modern web components with a UI library/framework.
• Experience working with a team to maintain a production website or application.
• Ability to interact with technical and functional teams and communicating challenges and risks.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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