AEM - UI EDS - Technical Lead / Frontend development Lead

Overview

Technical Lead for the India professional services team, responsible for developing and delivering customer web platforms on front-end technologies, leading end-to-end delivery and mentoring developers.

What you'll do

• Participate in discovery sessions to identify business priorities and expectations of authoring experience in CMS.
• Lead workshops between creative, content and development teams on template and component identification and requirements, and governance strategy between development and authoring tasks.
• Collaborate closely with the customer, manage expectations, ensure clear communication, define scope, agree on timelines and manage client dependencies.
• Gather business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Lead story/task grooming sessions and evaluate dependencies and prerequisites for tasks.
• Lead planning sessions and solution and estimate efforts.
• Design, build and maintain highly reusable JavaScript, HTML and CSS code.
• Review PRs and manage quality of development, coach and mentor the team on development skills and ensure adherence to best practices.
• Support the client content team on platform usage, guidance and support.
• Manage feature/product demos to the customer.
• Lead retrospective workshop at conclusion of project; capture and up-level actionable recommendations.
• Collaborate with Sales on GTM service offerings and pre-sales inquiries.
• Coordinate customer feedback with product teams.
• Research trends for design and front-end technologies to support improving design/front-end workflows.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Experience working in a globally dispersed scrum team.
• Demonstrated experience in Agile methodologies.
• Collaboration and engagement skills.
• Experience working with Communications and/or Marketing teams and/or Design Agencies.
• Demonstrated adaptability, goal orientated and innovative individual.
• Strategic problem solver who can relate day-to-day details with broader business objectives.
• Experience in leading a project team.
• Experience working directly with customers.
• Experience with any known CMS, with functional knowledge of template editor and content author roles.
• Expertise in responsive design and mobile application design.
• Expertise in front-end development, especially JAM stack.
• In-depth knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Detailed knowledge of JavaScript.
• Expertise in design systems, style guides and pattern libraries.
• Familiarity with RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
• Understanding of Web Accessibility WCAG guidelines.
• Understanding of content authoring and ensuring usability and intuitiveness for a content author while using a CMS.
• Understanding of information architecture and creating appropriate content structuring.
• Familiarity with Adobe XD, or other design tools such as Sketch or Figma.
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization.
• Deep understanding of core web vitals, web performance optimization techniques and best practices.
• Adherence to software development standards.
• Agile methodologies.
• Quality assurance.
• Standards governance.

Nice to have

• Expertise in BEM methodology knowledge.
• Less or Sass experience.
• ES6 knowledge.
• Experience with Atomic design paradigm.
• Familiarity with Micro Front End concepts and Headless Implementation.

Details

• Location: Noida, India.
• Work mode: hybrid, with teams in the office an average of four days a week.