Company Description

Merkle, a dentsu company, is a leading data-driven customer experience management (CXM) company that specializes in the delivery of unique, personalized customer experiences across platforms and devices. For more than 30 years, Fortune 1000 companies and leading nonprofit organizations have partnered with Merkle to maximize the value of their customer portfolios. The company’s heritage in data, technology, and analytics forms the foundation for its unmatched skills in understanding consumer insights that drive hyper-personalized marketing strategies. Its combined strengths in consulting, creative, media, analytics, data, identity, CX/commerce, technology, and loyalty & promotions drive improved marketing results and competitive advantage. With more than 14,000 employees, Merkle is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, with 50+ additional offices throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.


Job Description

Description


As an Senior Associate you’ll join a team responsible for delivering and supporting world-class Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) solutions. You’ll leverage your strong technical skills in developing seamless and scalable solutions for premier engagements alongside industry experts at Merkle.


Key Responsibilities:

Formulate an implementation plan & prepare estimates for the assigned activities/work items
Report work progress to the manager & the client on a periodic basis
Participate/Lead in design discussions & client meetings
Follow & Contribute to the organizational best practices/policies
Apply industry standard Design Patterns for web application development
Develop intelligent and scalable engineering solutions from scratch.
Review and understand business requirements to ensure that development tasks are completed within the timeline provided and that issues are fully tested with minimal defects
Develop front-end code in a timely and high-quality manner while leveraging site standards including site structure, page templates, navigation and the site information architecture.
Design, develop, and maintain scalable and stable web solutions that meet business needs.
Utilize AEM to layout pages, troubleshoot issues, and train authors of the system.
Utilize reusable templates and common HTML elements while leveraging centralized JQuery/JavaScript libraries and global CSS.
Writing high-quality, tested, well-documented code
Perform Code reviews with the development team
Supervise, mentor and coach developers
Work independently with the client technical lead
Prepare and execute demos and training sessions on the technical solution Write technical documentation for the delivered solution.

Qualifications

Skills Mandatory

3+ years of experience in implementing Web application, Web Content Management(WCM), and Digital Asset Management(DAM) solutions using AEM platform.
Well versed with AEM's underlying technology
Well versed working with Maven/Gradle, HTL, OSGI services/components, AEM as cloud service, Workflows, Search (JCR, querybuilder) , DAM.
Expertise in AEM component development, workflow development, and integrating AEM with other applications.
Have strong interpersonal skills such as effective listening, empathy, patience and the ability to interface with customers.
Ability to quickly understand business and technical context in diverse customer environments.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, with ability to work effectively across an organization.
Team player with ability to work individually.
"Embrace the Unknown" ability - Desire to continually learn and explore new tools, concepts and ideas and then share them with the rest of the team.
Experience in other Adobe products would be an added advantage (e.g. Adobe DTM, Adobe Campaign , Scene7, Test & Target)
Nice to have Experience working with an Agile methodology and iterative development.
Nice to have Adobe Experience Manager Sites Developer certified