Aem Solutions Architect

Company Description

Do you want to be part of the team delivering digital solutions for some of the most exciting clients in EMEA?

At Netcentric, we work in distributed teams across 11 countries and 16 cities, embracing a total of 48 different nationalities, and we take pride in our open and flat culture where everyone’s opinion matters. And did we mention that you can opt for a flexible on-site, remote, or hybrid-working environment?

If you’re ready to enjoy working in an innovative, collaborative, and ambitious team, with flexible working hours and continuous personal development, continue reading.

**Job Description**:
We are looking for a workmate who is following their vocation to spend time with web development and work with open source frameworks. You are a good fit if you consider yourself as a passionate techie who is willing to take over responsibility and share his expertise with others. Netcentric may probably feel like home for you if you are developing and want to develop together with us. AEM makes you curious.

You will be responsible for the entire delivery of a project. You will work closely together with the project manager to ensure a delivery exceeding the client's expectations. Main tasks are:

- defining the architecture of the solution, interacting with the client's architects
- write and refine technical specifications, provide effort estimations for requirements
- leading the development team (mostly distributed among various locations), reviewing code, coaching and guidance
- respect infrastructure requirements, synchronise with the project's lead system engineer
- ensuring quality and performance requirements are met, synchronise with the test manager
- release management
- development of critical parts of the systems
- ensuring reliable work environment for developers (IDE setup, Maven, CICD, Docker, SonarQube)

**Qualifications**:
**What do we require?**
- Hands-on experience with AEM
- Experience in leading a team, both technically and people management
- Great communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with technical and business users
- 5+ years experience working in an international organisation and environment
- Strong knowledge of Java, especially in web projects
- Strong capacity to identify requirements and define technical solutions
- Extensive experience in leading java based web projects
- Knowledge of Patterns and Good Practices to design and develop quality and clean code
- Experience developing RESTful Web Services
- Knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript (preferably ExtJs and jQuery)
- Experience with testing at all levels: unit, integration, functional and performance
- Ability to extend existing products and leverage their APIs to create a customised web experience
- Familiarity with build tools, including Maven
- Knowledge of version control tools, especially Git
- Familiarity with task management, bug tracking, and wiki-based documentation tools like JIRA
- Strong verbal and written English language skills
- A proactive mind-set, ability to share your ideas and bring them to life
- Enthusiasm
- An open mind which is looking for continuous improvement
- Receiving and giving feedback is familiar to you, something you are not afraid of
- Eligibility to work within the EU and/or Switzerland

**Additional Qualifications and Skills**:

- Experience with Test Driven Development
- Familiarity with the Java Content Repository API (Jackrabbit / CRX)
- Knowledge of OSGi and its Declarative Services
- Ability to extend existing products and leverage their APIs to create a customized web experience
- Experience in professional development environments, such as Eclipse IDE

Additional Information
**What do we offer YOU?**
- Permanent contract
- 30 working days of vacation for all employees
- Flexible working hours, with respect to project needs
- Recognition bonus system
- Continuous training and coaching
- Dynamic and international team
- Sponsored gym membership
- Apple work equipment
- Central office locations with great office space
- Table football
- Many off-site company events
- Kitchen access with a large selection of teas, coffee and Bionade
- Everyone has a voice, we are a Holacracy organization