AEM - UI EDS - Technical Lead / Frontend development Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in Discovery sessions to identify business priorities and expectations of authoring experience in CMS. • Lead workshops between creative, content teams, and development teams in relation to template and component identification and requirements, and governance strategy between development and authoring tasks. • Collaborate and work closely with customer and 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 the dependencies and prerequisites for the tasks. • Lead greening sessions and ability to 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 team on development skills and ensure adherence to best practices. • Support client content team on platform usage, guidance and support. • Manage feature/product demos to 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 & front-end technologies to support improving design/front-end workflows.
• Technical Skills: • 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 in HTML5, CSS3 (Less, Sass is a plus), knowledge of BEM methodology is preferred. • Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model. • Detailed knowledge of JavaScript (ES6 is a plus). • Experience with Atomic design paradigm is a plus. • Expertise in Design systems, Style guides, Pattern libraries • Familiarity with RESTful and GraphQL APIs. • Familiarity with Micro Front End concepts and Headless Implementation would be a plus. • 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 in 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.