AEM Front End Developer Specialist

SUMMARY:
Ulwembu is a leading IT Consulting company and we are looking for the best IT skills from qualified, experienced and energetic professionals! If you are a AEM Front End Developer Specialist in possession of the required Certificate, send us your CV cmthembi@ulwembubs.com

POSITION INFO:

Key responsibilities:

• Collaborate with design and web development team members in designing, scoping and implementing new features on internal and external facing digital platforms.
• Contribute to the process of UX/UI design, to ensure that content is appropriately structured to meet the goals for the site and supported platforms.
• Analyse and implement best practice information architecture, interactive design principles, web usability and online marketing requirements.
• Leverage digital capabilities, standards and best practices to drive customer engagement for the bank’s brand.
• Identify business process and capability improvement opportunities aligned to the needs of the bank.
• Data Migration - Migration into AEM from other CMS’s (structured/unstructured data).
• Generate thought leadership using trends, insights, products and industry issues.
• Learn and expand on current SEO best practices to continually audit the website and evaluate the existing pages, new content offerings and creative. 
• Assist in the creation of business requirements, user flow diagrams, functional specifications, and user testing plans as needed. 
• Continually assess and provide discerning development, insightful coaching, and talent optimization for junior team members; SARB Procure to Pay Professional Services Version 4 21 November 2019 © Copyright 2016 SARB
• Acting as an advocate for the AEM product, explaining new features as and when they become available, and training the team on the use of the product where required.

Administration

• Ensure business objectives are translated into best-in-class digital customer experiences
• Coordinates the regular review of all web pages, designs, and features of the website to ensure they are accurate, consistent, interactive, easily navigable, visually appealing, and that they reflect an accurate and positive image.

Reporting & Auditing 

• Identify KPIs, set targets, continuously monitor and measure digital strategy effectiveness, and regularly deliver analysis and insights to key stakeholders.
• Perform quality assurance on the developed applications, systems and functions.
• Provides progress reports to the project manager and relevant business and technology heads.

Key performance measures: 

• Ability to estimate and execute tasks throughout the lifecycle including architecture, discovery, design, development and operations. 
• Ability to articulate business & architectural solutions and design options/considerations to both technical and non-technical audiences 
• Must be able to manage, lead, and influence multiple stakeholders at various levels in challenging situations, manage ambiguity and establish credibility and trust quickly.
• Experienced UI developer with design system experience and its implementation. 
• Strong knowledge on development paradigms such as OOP, design patterns, functional programming. 
• Translate strategy into actionable items and to link activities to business results; 
• Developing detailed requirements/specs 
• Website Management 
• User interface and User experience Design 
• Developing new websites and apps 
• Creating wireframes, prototypes, storyboards, user flows, etc. 
• Managing integrations with back-end developers 
• Prototyping and Demos.

Education and experience:

• Degree in the field of Information Technology, Web Design, Digital Media, Multimedia Communications or related discipline.
• 10+ years’ digital content management experience with Adobe AEM/CQ5 including web page design, content organization , content editing , web architecture and web analytics.
• 5+ years of UX/UI development experience - taking ownership, driving understanding, and delivering solutions that exceed expectations with strong storytelling skills.
• 7+ years of software development experience with 5+ years of experience in design and implementation of modules on Adobe CQ 5.3 and AEM 5.6.1/6.0, 6.1, 6.2 and along with 5 years of experience in Java developer.
• Experience in technical management and execution of large digital applications across multiple frameworks and platforms.
• Experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and Adobe Analytics is strongly preferred. You will be seen as an AEM expert, staying on top of the capabilities of all aspects of the product.
• AEM, Java/J2EE, Sling, Application design and development experience.
• Experienced and deep knowledge on custom AEM Reusable components, Widgets, Templates, Widgets on top of JCR and Apache Sling (9 Implicit Objects), Apache Jackrabbit CRX and AEM.
• Thorough exposure of the end-to-end content lifecycle, web content management, content publishing / deployment and delivery processes as well as experience in implementing 2+ full cycle AEM projects.
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle and software development methodologies (Agile) 
• Experience in building enterprise applications using Java/J2EE technologies, e.g. servlets, database access, SOAP client.
• Working knowledge of different Application servers like JBOSS, Apache Tomcat, Web logic.
• Experience on Java Content Repository (API) suite, Sling web framework and Apache Felix OSGi framework(R6/R7)
• Experience on Sighlty, Sling Models, touch UI libraries and Adobe core components.
• Strong experience with setting up AEM/CQ5 using Maven and standard Eclipse tools.
• Strong expertise in UI frameworks like Angular.JS, React.JS, Spring MVC.
• Experience in building and consuming REST services.
• AEM migration experience (preferably been a part of 2+ migration efforts).
• Google Analytics a plus.
• Broad and detailed understanding of financial services industry.

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