Lead Adobe AEM Developer

30 Sep 2024

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Build IT that develops financial futures

The Enterprise MarTech Platforms technology group is empowering Vanguard Marketing divisions to reach their audiences in more meaningful and relevant ways, driving incremental business value with personalized, data-driven contextually relevant experiences. We never stop working to make investing simpler, seamless, and more successful for our clients. We combine the art of content and the science of experimentation to power world-class, coordinated customer and prospect experiences across digital and traditional marketing channels.

In this role, you will be part of the Experience Platforms Engineering team within Vanguard's Enterprise MarTech Platforms organization, responsible for supporting the design, development, testing, and implementation of Vanguard's Digital Experience platform capabilities, with a particular focus on building future Content and Digital Asset Management solutions leveraging Adobe Experience Manager. You will work along-side a team of front-end developers, Tech Leads, product test engineers, Site Search Engineers, and Architects to support a variety of Experience Platform implementation initiatives across all Vanguard marketing divisions.

This role can be based in either Charlotte, NC, or Malvern, PA.

In this role, you will:
  • Provide expert level IT technical lead services and direction for critical software, middleware, and/or hardware projects within Adobe Experience Manager.
  • Participate in and provide consulting to MarTech delivery teams on AEM design development, integration opportunities as it relates to the overall MarTech ecosystem
  • Provide technical expertise in systems, technical infrastructure, tools, modeling, external interfaces, and other technical areas. Complete complex development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities.
  • Work closely with business divisions, application teams, infrastructure areas and vendors to identity, review and evaluate the solution requirements
  • Develop, implement and configure web content management solutions using Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe AEM Forms, Adobe AEM Assets, and/or technologies such as Java, HTML/DHTML, XML, JavaScript, and web services
  • Create and integrate content-driven applications on top of AEMs core platform and integrate with E-commerce and other solutions
  • Integrate websites with web analytics and campaign management tools
  • Assist Vanguard marketing clients in achieving strategic digital business objectives through technology solution implementation
  • Document knowledge and best practices around AEM platform capabilities
  • Investigate and propose strategic fits for virtualization, consolidation and rationalization solution opportunities within the infrastructure or business
  • Propose changes to the technical design solutions as applicable
  • Evaluate and align strategic fit solutions across platforms and solutions specific to system hardware and software technologies

What it takes:
  • Bachelor's degree in field requiring strong analytical and quantitative skills such as Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Systems, preferred, but not required.
  • 8+ years' experience in Web Development technologies (Java, HTML/DHTML, XML, JavaScript, web services)
  • 3+ years' experience in Adobe Experience Manager
  • Hands-on experience developing templates and custom components on the Adobe AEM platform, ideally v6 (preferred)
  • Experience customizing workflows and integration with other enterprise systems (preferred)
  • Experience with developing, building and installing AEM content packages
  • Experience with Agile software development

Additional Qualifications:
  • Experience in financial services industry a plus
  • Working knowledge with AEM architecture is preferred
  • Knowledge of other Adobe Marketing Cloud platforms (Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target, AAM a plus)
  • Front-end skills and an understanding of how back-end development works
  • Experience with Java concepts and patterns including: Java/J2EE, JSP, Spring, Sling, JMS, JUnit, MVC, Eclipse, Maven
About Vanguard

We are Vanguard. Together, we're changing the way the world invests.

For us, investing doesn't just end in value. It starts with values. Because when you invest with courage, when you invest with clarity, and when you invest with care, you can get so much more in return. We invest with purpose - and that's how we've become a global market leader. Here, we grow by doing the right thing for the people we serve. And so can you.

We want to make success accessible to everyone. This is our opportunity. Let's make it count.

Inclusion Statement

Vanguard's continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: "Do the right thing."

We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard's core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.

Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.