Job Description Lead the detailed technical assessment of the existing Adobe Experience Manager estate. Assess architecture, customisations, integrations, content and asset dependencies, technical debt, and migration complexity, and provide technical recommendations for the target-state platform and subsequent migration. Responsibilities
- Perform detailed technical assessment of the existing AEM implementation.
- Review AEM components, templates, content structures, workflows and configurations.
- Assess custom code and OSGi services/bundles.
- Review AEM integrations with external and enterprise systems.
- Assess DAM usage and dependencies associated with AEM.
- Identify reusable, custom, obsolete and potentially problematic implementation areas.
- Identify AEM technical debt and migration constraints relevant to the separation.
- Assess content and asset migration considerations.
- Support assessment of AEM platform options and migration approaches.
- Analyse authentication, author/publish architecture, caching/CDN and environment dependencies.
- Identify dependencies on shared services that need to be separated, replaced or reconfigured.
- Support classification of applications/sites by technical complexity.
- Provide technical estimates and assumptions for subsequent migration waves.
- Work closely with the Martech Architect, DevOps Engineer and Programme Manager.
- Document technical findings, risks and recommendations.
Essential Skills
- Experience in CMS development, with at least 3+ years working on AEM.
- Strong hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Manager.
- Solid knowledge of AEM Sites and DAM/Assets.
- Experience with AEM components, templates, Sling, OSGi, workflows and integrations.
- Experience analysing large or highly customised AEM implementations.
- Understanding of AEM migration and upgrade approaches.
- Knowledge of AEM security, permissions and authentication patterns.
- Understanding of dispatcher/CDN and AEM deployment architecture.
- Familiarity with AEM as a Cloud Service.
- Experience with Git, Maven and CI/CD pipelines.
- Good understanding of REST APIs and enterprise integrations.
- Ability to produce concise technical assessment documentation.
Good-to-Have Skills
- Adobe AEM certification.
- Exposure to Contentful/headless CMS.
- Experience with AEM modernisation or cloud migration programmes.
- Exposure to React/Next.js or headless AEM implementations.
- Experience with large multi-market/multi-language digital estates.