AEM Front End Engineer (remote)

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:

Blue Acorn iCi is a digital consultancy focused on delivering innovative solutions across customer experience, commerce, and data. Our team of over 400 experts enable clients to navigate large-scale, digital transformation programs.

Whether it’s a digitally savvy consumer brand or a legacy manufacturer, Blue Acorn iCi empowers businesses with digital scalability to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer experience. With services that include strategy, analytics, design, and engineering, we elevate global brands across industries such as media, consumer goods & retail, financial services, manufacturing, technology and more.

Join our innovative and collaborative team as we deliver extraordinary digital experiences for some of the world’s largest brands!

POSITION SUMMARY:

Blue Acorn iCi is currently seeking a contract AEM Front End Engineer to join a remote project working alongside internal teams and external clients. The engineer will be dealing with enterprise-level clients and will be required to configure and customize solutions to the client’s complex needs. The AEM Front End engineer is rooted in software development yet realizes and activates the potential the front-end experience can offer.

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Manage front end development tasks for Adobe Experience Manager (CQ5 and AEM6) projects

Work alongside software developers and architects, UX / UI visual designers and architects, and product developers

Discover, design, and build highly interactive interfaces and content that keep users engaged and build positive brand equity at every possible point in the user experience

Slice, mark-up, and script interfaces and content on content managed, responsive websites / systems that work flawlessly on desktop, tablet, phone, and other devices

Work directly with servers and server-side: AJAX, JS

Create events and listeners on content and interaction to produce meaningful reporting (Google Analytics, Adobe Marketing Suite, and other conversion tags)

Leveraging APIs / Web Services and content of all types (REST, SOAP, XML, JSON, etc.)

Delivering product and apps that are based on pre-existing wireframes, designs, or other client requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:

Must have 2+ years of AEM (Adobe Experience Manager - CQ5/AEM6) front end development experience

HTML, JSP, HTL (and other templating languages)

JavaScript principles and fundamentals

jQuery and extending / customizing plugins

Extensive knowledge of Git and Git commands

Bootstrap 3

CSS Preprocessors (LESS / SASS)

Front End Frameworks and Task Runners

MVC Frameworks and core underlying principles (Angular, React, Vue)

AJAX, JSON

REST / SOAP Web Services

Sightly/HTL experience

Familiarity with Responsive Design and Graceful Degradation principles

ADA / Accessibility and Accessibility Markup