Contract Technical Architect (Onsite, Princeton, NJ, three days per week)

About the Role 

Qualified Digital (QD) is seeking a visionary and hands-on Contract Technical Architect to spearhead the technical strategy, design, and evolution of our products.

This role demands a rare blend ofarchitectural vision and hands-on AEM expertise, ensuring every feature across the suite delivers scalability, security, compliance, and measurable business value. The selected consultant will be responsible for leading cloud migration efforts, architecting scalable AEMaaCS solutions, guiding engineering teams, collaborating with client stakeholders, and supporting the successful delivery of a large-scale enterprise implementation.

**This role requires working onsite in Princeton, NJ, three days per week.**

Contract Details

• Position Type: Contract
• Rate Range: $90 - $120 per hour (USD) 
• Expected Start Date: Immediately
• Expected Duration: Indefinite
• Expected Hours: 30-40 hours per week
• Location: Onsite at client location in Princeton, NJ

Responsibilities

Product Design & Solution Architecture

• Architect Product Features:Design and implement modular, scalable, and secure solutions — leveraging AEM, Core Java, Veeva Vault APIs, and BrowserStack.
• Strong AEM Foundation:Possess deep, hands-on understanding ofAEM Core Concepts, includingTemplates,Components,Dialogs,Clientlibs,Editable Templates, andExperience Fragments.
• Assets & Metadata Architecture:Architect robust strategies forAssets metadata schemas,Tag Management, andTaxonomy governance, ensuring effective asset discoverability and alignment with modular content practices.
• Solution Design:Translate product requirements into robust AEM-based and service-oriented architectures, defining patterns for backend OSGi services, frontend component structures, and analytics data flows.
• Technology Evolution:Continuously align product architecture with updates fromAdobe AEM Cloud, AdobeEDS,Java,Veeva Vault, andBrowserStack, modernizing integrations and platform capabilities.

Engineering Leadership & Team Enablement

• Technical Guidance:Lead and mentor multiple developer teams across backend (Java/OSGi), frontend (HTL/React/JS), and DevOps streams.
• Code Quality Oversight:Conduct in-depthcode reviews, enforcesecurity and performance standards, and ensure every delivery aligns with architectural guidelines.
• Core Knowledge Stewardship:Maintain and promote strong expertise inCore Java,AEM,Veeva, andBrowserStackprinciples; provide ongoing technical coaching to development teams.
• High Quality Delivery:Ensure code quality, scalability, and maintainability across all layers through structured design reviews and automated testing pipelines.

Release, Licensing & CI/CD Governance

• Release Management:Plan and oversee the full product release lifecycle, ensuring smooth and predictable deployments across environments and teams.
• Licensing Management:Maintain and manageproduct licensingand version tracking across environments.
• CI/CD Ownership:Maintain and enhanceend-to-end CI/CD pipelines(Jenkins, JFrog, Maven, Git), ensuring stable, automated builds, and controlled deployments.
• Testing Automation:IntegrateSeleniumandBrowserStack as core components within the CI/CD flow for real-time rendering validation, visual regression testing, and multi-device compatibility checks.

AEM Architecture, OSGi & Workflow Implementations

• Design, implement, and governAEM OSGi Services,Configurations, andServlets, ensuring clean modularization and loose coupling.
• Develop and maintainAEM Workflowsfor metadata validation, approval processes, publishing, and integration with external systems such asVeeva Vault.
• Enforce best practices forClientlibs organization, caching strategies, and performance optimization within AEM’s front-end architecture.
• Maintain high reusability acrossAEM Components, ensuring all features are cloud-ready and adhere to Adobe’s evolving AEMaaCS standards.

Data, Analytics & Governance

• Data Layer Architecture:Architect and standardize aData Layer frameworkto capture consistent analytics data across templates and components.
• Analytics Integration:Enable data flow intoAdobe Analytics,Customer Journey Analytics (CJA), andGoogle Analyticsfor performance and behavioral insights.
• Metadata & Tag Governance:Define and enforce best practices formetadata schema design,tag management, andasset taxonomyacross the entire product suite.
• Compliance Alignment: Ensure architectural compliance withMLR (Medical, Legal, Regulatory) andPharma Data Privacy requirements across products.

Product Governance, Quality & Innovation

• Code Governance:Maintain end-to-end control of Xp Product Suite repositories, ensuring clean codebase management and modular architecture.
• Quality & Security:Define static analysis gates usingSonarQube, enforceJUnit/Mockitounit testing coverage, and validate code security using industry best practices.
• Innovation & Roadmap Evolution:Continuously brainstorm with internal and external teams to identify new feature opportunities, enhancing the roadmap based on emergingAEM,Veeva, andBrowserStackcapabilities.
• Cross-Platform Value Delivery:Ensure all features across the suite contribute cohesively toward value creation, authoring efficiency, and omnichannel content reuse.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of software/web development, integration, and architecture experience
• 6+ years of AEM experience (AEM 6.3+)
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with AEM as a Cloud Service (AEMaaCS)
• Proven experience leading or supporting migrations from AEM On-Prem to AEMaaCS
• Strong Java development experience (Java, Spring, JCR, OSGi, HTL/Sightly)
• Experience with Cloud Manager, CI/CD pipelines, dispatcher refactoring, and cloud-native AEM configurations
• Experience using Adobe migration tools including Content Transfer Tool (CTT), Repository Modernizer, and Dispatcher Converter
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS and/or Azure)
• Experience with integrations, APIs (REST/GraphQL), DevOps practices, and enterprise architecture
• Client-facing consulting experience and ability to serve as a trusted technical advisor
• AEM certifications are highly desirable

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within the Life Sciences or Pharmaceutical industry
• Experience with Adobe Experience Cloud solutions (Analytics, Target, Adobe I/O, AEP)
• Experience with Salesforce, MuleSoft, or similar enterprise platforms

About QD

Qualified Digital (QD) is a full-service digital agency focused on imagining, building, measuring, and improving digital experiences across marketing ecosystems. We specifically focus on the integration of systems related to experience strategy and design, WCM/CMS strategy, and implementation, optimization and personalization, marketing automation, CDP, and data analytics.

QD is a team of experts who know the value of building connections for our clients – and ourselves too! Our mission is to advance the healthiest and most connected brands around. We’re looking for people with unique voices and talents, insatiable curiosity, and a desire to be recognized for all that you are and do to help us create and orchestrate experiences & operations that are connected, human and intelligent.

As a woman-owned and LGBTQIA+-owned business, we understand that diversity isn’t a box to tick or a quota to hit; it’s in the very fabric of the work we do. Even if you don’t feel you meetevery single qualification listed above, we strongly encourage you to apply – especially if you are in a historically-disenfranchised group.  QD is dedicated to creating an inclusive, welcoming employee experience for all, regardless of gender identity, gender presentation, religion, sexual orientation, age, or disability.