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Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio. 


IBM is seeking experienced Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Back-End Developers to join our dynamic team and contribute to cutting-edge Agile projects. 

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities


  • Develop and maintain back-end functionality for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) implementations.
  • Design and implement AEM components, templates, and workflows to meet project requirements.
  • Collaborate with front-end developers and architects to deliver seamless integrations.
  • Perform unit testing to ensure code quality and reliability.
  • Troubleshoot and debug AEM-related issues while maintaining system performance.
  • Utilize RESTful Web Services for data integrations and interactions.
  • Participate actively in Agile projects, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
  • Document technical solutions and processes to ensure maintainability and scalability.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise



  • AEM Expertise:
    • At least 1 year of experience working with Adobe Experience Manager, including general knowledge of AEM architecture, project structure, types of AEM instances, and the usage of AEM components and services.
  • Back-End Development Skills:
    • At least 2 years of experience in Java EE, JSP, OSGi, Servlets, Annotations, JSTL Tag Library, and Eclipse development.
    • Experience with Sightly for AEM templating.
  • Web Services: Experience in using RESTful Web Services for integrations.
  • Unit Testing: Familiarity with unit testing frameworks such as Mockito and wcm.io.
  • Performance Optimization: Ability to analyze and optimize AEM implementations for scalability and performance.
  • Collaboration Tools: Familiarity with tools like Jira, Confluence, and Git for Agile collaboration and version control.
  • Problem-Solving: Strong ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues and provide innovative solutions.
  • Agile Projects: At least 1 year of experience working in Agile environments, actively contributing to team goals.
  • Language Skills: Fluent in English.
Preferred technical and professional experience


  • Cloud Experience:
    • Experience working with AEM in cloud environments, including Cloud Manager.
  • Build & Deployment: Strong knowledge of Maven, DAM, and build/deploy processes.
  • Application Servers: Experience with JBoss and Tomcat.
  • DevOps Familiarity: Experience with CI/CD pipelines, especially in cloud-based AEM deployments.
  • Security Awareness: Knowledge of secure coding practices and AEM-specific security configurations.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.