Lead AEM Solution Architect

We’re looking for an experienced AEM Solution Architect to join a large-scale enterprise transformation within a complex, multi-vendor AEM environment.

This is a highly technical, solution-focused role covering architecture, design, front-end, back-end and implementation. You’ll help evaluate existing technology approaches, shape future architecture and guide development teams through the delivery lifecycle.

The environment includes multiple AEM projects, teams and technology partners, with a range of different approaches being used across the front end. The focus will be on assessing these approaches, challenging technical decisions where appropriate and helping establish a more consistent, scalable and future-proof architecture.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead the evaluation and consolidation of AEM technologies and approaches across multiple projects and vendors.
• Assess existing solutions and make recommendations around future technology direction.
• Evaluate different AEM approaches, including classic AEM/HTL, Universal Editor, Edge Delivery Services (EDS), headless implementations and custom solutions such as Next.js.
• Work across both front-end and back-end architecture rather than focusing solely on one technical area.
• Guide technology selection and architectural decisions based on technical and business requirements.
• Work closely with design, engineering and delivery teams from architecture and design through implementation, go-live and optimisation.
• Challenge existing technical decisions and provide clear, practical recommendations.
• Establish and promote engineering standards around performance, scalability, maintainability, automation and quality.
• Provide technical direction and architectural guidance to development teams.
• Assess observability, monitoring, troubleshooting and performance within enterprise environments.
• Help shape longer-term AEM technology roadmaps and transformation strategies.
• Potentially support the growth and development of an AEM engineering team as the engagement expands.

What We’re Looking For

We’re particularly interested in someone with a strong technical background who has progressed from AEM development into technical architecture and ultimately solution architecture.

You should have:

• Extensive experience delivering AEM / AEMaaCS solutions within complex enterprise environments.
• Strong solution architecture experience spanning front-end, back-end, design and AEM implementation.
• Practical experience across multiple AEM development approaches, including:
  • Classic AEM / HTL
  • Page Editor
  • Universal Editor
  • Headless / SPA architectures
  • Web Components
  • Edge Delivery Services (EDS)
  • Custom front-end solutions such as Next.js
• Experience evaluating front-end technologies and recommending the right approach for a particular use case.
• Experience with design systems and Figma.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development and modern engineering workflows.
• Experience guiding teams through the full lifecycle from architecture and design through implementation, deployment, go-live and optimisation.
• Strong knowledge of performance, scalability, observability, monitoring and troubleshooting in enterprise environments.
• A strong focus on engineering quality, automation, maintainability and continuous improvement.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to explain and defend technical recommendations to senior stakeholders.

The Ideal Background

This role would suit someone who is comfortable operating between strategy and hands-on technical delivery.

You won’t simply be producing architecture diagrams and handing them over to developers. You’ll be expected to work directly with technical teams, understand how solutions will actually be implemented, challenge decisions where necessary and ensure the resulting architecture is practical, scalable and maintainable.

Experience leading a technology-selection or AEM transformation programme - particularly where multiple vendors, technologies or existing implementations needed to be assessed and consolidated - would be highly valuable.

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