About this role
Responsibilities:
• Partner with architecture leaders to define and evolve the strategy for AEM-based web platforms and digital experiences across public and secure websites. • Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and engineering standards that drive scalability, consistency, and reuse across web applications. • Lead the architectural direction and adoption of AEM Cloud Service, including modernization and migration initiatives. • Architect and govern CDN capabilities, including caching strategies, edge configuration, web application firewall (WAF) policies, traffic management, and performance optimization. • Drive modernization of web platforms and content management solutions to improve scalability, maintainability, and delivery efficiency. • Provide technical leadership for frontend engineering using modern frameworks and architectures, including React and Web Components. • Champion modern web engineering practices, including accessibility, responsive design, performance optimization, and secure coding standards. • Serve as a subject matter expert for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), providing guidance across AEM Sites, AEM Forms, AEM Assets, and related technologies. • Architect integrations between web platforms, enterprise services, APIs, identity solutions, and Adobe ecosystem technologies. • Partner with product, engineering, and architecture teams to conduct design reviews, influence technical decisions, and resolve complex architectural challenges. • Translate business objectives and product roadmaps into scalable technical solutions and long-term engineering strategies. • Define and promote secure website delivery patterns, including authentication, content security, and protection of sensitive data. • Mentor engineers and technical leaders, foster engineering best practices, and maintain architectural standards and documentation.
Required Qualifications:
• Minimum of ten years related work experience, with at least five years of development experience. • Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred. • Extensive experience leading enterprise web architecture and engineering initiatives, with a demonstrated ability to drive technical strategy across multiple teams and platforms. • 5+ years of deep hands-on expertise with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), including headful (Sites/traditional), headless (Content Fragments, GraphQL, Edge Delivery), and AEM Forms spanning architecture, development, and operational concerns. • Strong command of modern frontend frameworks and technologies, including React, Web Components, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript. Experience with micro-frontend architectures, module federation, or similar patterns for large-scale secure web applications. • Experience architecting and optimizing high-traffic, customer-facing websites utilizing Akamai CDN or comparable technologies, including caching strategies, edge configuration, WAF, and performance optimization. • Experience with both secure (authenticated) and public website architectures, including integration with identity providers, session management, and content security. • Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and experience with AWS services, including compute, networking, storage, serverless, and IAM.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with AEM Cloud Service and leading migration initiatives. • Expertise with AEM Forms, including adaptive forms, form data models, document services, and forms-centric workflow automation. • Experience with Adobe marketing stack integration, including Adobe Launch (Tags), Adobe Web SDK, Adobe Target, and Adobe Experience Platform (AEP). • Familiarity with design system implementation and governance (e.g., Storybook, custom element registries, shared component libraries). • Exposure to Agentic AI or generative AI-enabled content authoring, experience assembly, or intelligent personalization. • AEM certifications (Adobe Certified Expert – Sites Architect, Sites Developer, or Forms Developer).
Special Factors Sponsorship Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position. About Vanguard At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.