Senior Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Developer

Location: Wagner Place East, 21931 Michigan Avenue, Dearborn, MI

Duration: 12-month

Employment Type: Contract

Schedule: Hybrid

Position Overview

Ford is seeking a Senior AEM Developer to build and maintain large-scale digital experiences using Adobe Experience Manager.

This is a hands-on full-stack AEM role covering components, templates, workflows, Digital Asset Management, multisite content, Java services, frontend development, APIs, search, cloud deployment, and production support.

Required Skills

• Adobe Experience Manager
• Java
• OSGi
• React or Angular
• HTML5 and CSS3
• REST APIs
• Digital Asset Management

Required Experience

• 5+ years of AEM development experience
• Developing AEM components, templates, workflows, and content fragments
• Java, Sling, and OSGi development within AEM
• React or Angular
• AEM Digital Asset Management
• Integrating AEM with third-party systems through REST APIs
• Troubleshooting production issues
• Jira and Confluence
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent professional experience

Preferred Experience

• AEM as a Cloud Service
• Author, Publish, and Dispatcher configuration
• Blueprints, Live Copies, and Rollout Configurations
• Elasticsearch
• Search indexing and search-relevance tuning
• Git, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions
• Microservices or service-oriented architecture
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• GitHub Copilot or agentic AI development tools

Ideal Candidate

A hands-on AEM developer with strong Java and frontend-development skills who can work across the full platform, including components, workflows, DAM, integrations, search, cloud deployment, and production support.

The strongest candidates will have direct experience with AEM as a Cloud Service, Java, Sling, OSGi, React or Angular, DAM, and multisite management.