Join our team as a Senior Technical Lead – Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) & Web and play a key role in shaping the future of digital experiences. In this role, you will provide strategic technical leadership across web platforms and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) solutions, partnering with architects, engineers, and product teams to define technology direction, solve complex technical challenges, and establish engineering standards. As a Senior Technical Lead you will help drive modern web architecture, scalable content management capabilities, and high-performing digital experiences while influencing technical decisions across multiple teams and product areas. This role is ideal for a senior technology leader who brings deep expertise in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), web architecture, cloud technologies, and frontend engineering, along with a passion for mentoring teams and advancing engineering excellence. This is a hybrid role requiring in-office presence Tuesday through Thursday and is based in Charlotte, NC.

Responsibilities:

· Partner with product, architecture and engineering leaders to define and evolve the strategy for AEM-based web platforms and digital experiences across public and secure websites.

· Translate business objectives and product roadmaps into scalable technical solutions and long-term engineering strategies.

· Lead the architectural direction and adoption of AEM Cloud Service, including modernization and migration initiatives.

· Serve as a subject matter expert for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), providing guidance across AEM Sites, AEM Forms, AEM Assets, and related technologies.

· Establish and govern reference architectures, design patterns, and engineering standards that drive scalability, consistency, and reuse across web applications.

· Architect CDN and edge capabilities, including caching strategies, edge configuration, and performance optimization for high-traffic websites.

· Provide technical leadership for modern frontend architectures using React, Web Components, TypeScript, and related technologies. Champion accessibility and responsive design.

· Architect integrations between web platforms, enterprise services, APIs, identity solutions, and Adobe ecosystem technologies.

· Experience working on secure applications, including authentication, session management, content security, and protection of sensitive data.

· Mentor engineers and other technical leads, foster engineering best practices, and maintain architectural standards and documentation.

Required Qualifications:

· Minimum of ten years of related work experience, with at least five years of software development experience.

· Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.

· Five plus years of deep hands-on expertise with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), including headful (Sites/traditional), headless (Content Fragments, GraphQL, Edge Delivery), and AEM Forms spanning architecture, development, and operational concerns.

· Demonstrated experience with modern frontend technologies including React, Web Components, TypeScript, and JavaScript; scalable web patterns such as micro-frontends or module federation.

· Experience architecting and optimizing high-traffic, customer-facing websites utilizing Akamai CDN or comparable technologies, including caching strategies, edge configuration, and performance optimization.

· Experience with both secure (authenticated) and public website architectures, including integration with identity providers, session management, and content security.

· Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and experience with AWS services, including compute, networking, storage, serverless, and IAM.

Preferred Qualifications:

· Experience with AEM Cloud Service and leading migration initiatives.

· Expertise with AEM Forms, including adaptive forms, form data models, document services, and forms-centric workflow automation.

· Experience with Adobe marketing stack integration, including Adobe Web SDK, Adobe Target, and Adobe Experience Platform (AEP).

· Familiarity with design system implementation and governance (e.g., Storybook, custom element registries, shared component libraries).

· Exposure to agentic AI or generative AI-enabled content authoring, experience assembly, or intelligent personalization.

· AEM certifications (Adobe Certified Expert – Sites Architect, Sites Developer, or Forms Developer).

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.