AEM - UI EDS - Technical Lead / Frontend development Lead

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a AEM - UI EDS - Technical Lead / Frontend Development Lead based in India.

As a Technical Lead, you will lead the delivery of sophisticated customer-facing web platforms using modern front-end technologies and CMS solutions. You will own technical delivery from discovery and requirements gathering through implementation, quality assurance, and client handover. The role combines hands-on frontend engineering with technical leadership, consulting, and customer engagement. You will translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions while guiding teams toward high-quality development practices. You will collaborate with creative, content, development, and customer teams to shape authoring experiences, templates, components, and governance strategies. You will also mentor developers, contribute to pre-sales initiatives, and help evolve frontend practices through research and innovation. This is a high-impact opportunity for an experienced engineering leader who enjoys solving complex problems in a client-focused environment.

• Lead the end-to-end technical delivery of customer web platforms, including defining scope, timelines, technical solutions, dependencies, and delivery plans.
• Participate in discovery sessions to understand business priorities, customer expectations, and CMS authoring requirements.
• Facilitate workshops involving creative, content, and development teams to define templates, components, requirements, and governance approaches.
• Work directly with customers to gather business requirements, manage expectations, communicate progress, clarify dependencies, and align on delivery timelines.
• Translate business and functional requirements into practical, scalable technical solutions.
• Lead story and task grooming sessions, assess dependencies and prerequisites, and support technical estimation and solutioning activities.
• Design, build, and maintain reusable JavaScript, HTML, and CSS components and frontend solutions.
• Review pull requests, maintain development quality, enforce engineering best practices, and provide technical guidance to development teams.
• Coach and mentor developers, helping strengthen their frontend engineering capabilities and overall delivery practices.
• Support customer content teams with CMS platform usage, authoring guidance, and ongoing technical support.
• Lead feature and product demonstrations for customers and communicate technical solutions effectively to diverse stakeholders.
• Facilitate project retrospectives, identify improvement opportunities, and turn lessons learned into actionable recommendations.
• Collaborate with sales teams on go-to-market service offerings, technical proposals, and pre-sales opportunities.
• Coordinate customer feedback with relevant product teams and contribute to continuous product and service improvements.
• Research emerging frontend, design, CMS, and web technologies to improve development and design workflows.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of professional experience in frontend development, technical leadership, web engineering, or a closely related field.
• Strong experience working with CMS platforms, including a functional understanding of template editors, content authoring workflows, and content roles.
• Expert-level frontend development experience, particularly with JAMstack architectures and modern web platforms.
• Strong proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, including DOM manipulation, JavaScript object models, and modern ES6+ capabilities.
• Experience with responsive design and mobile-oriented web experiences.
• Strong understanding of design systems, style guides, pattern libraries, and reusable component architectures.
• Knowledge of Less or Sass and familiarity with BEM methodology is preferred.
• Familiarity with Atomic Design principles is a plus.
• Experience working with RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
• Understanding of Micro Frontend architectures and headless implementations is an advantage.
• Solid understanding of web accessibility standards, including WCAG guidelines.
• Strong knowledge of content authoring, content usability, information architecture, and effective content structuring within CMS environments.
• Familiarity with design and collaboration tools such as Adobe XD, Sketch, or Figma.
• Experience with modern frontend build pipelines and tools, including Babel, Webpack, NPM, and similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of Git and modern code versioning practices.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into clear technical requirements and implementation plans.
• Strong understanding of web performance optimization, benchmarking, Core Web Vitals, and frontend performance best practices.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on optimization and delivering scalable solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work effectively with customers and cross-functional teams.
• A collaborative, inclusive, customer-centric mindset with the ability to mentor and inspire engineering teams.

Benefits:

• Full-time opportunity in a senior technical leadership position.
• Location flexibility across India, with Bangalore identified as the primary location.
• Opportunity to work remotely depending on project and team requirements.
• Significant ownership over technical architecture, frontend development, and end-to-end delivery.
• Direct exposure to customers and opportunities to influence product and technical strategy.
• Leadership and mentoring opportunities within multidisciplinary development teams.
• Exposure to modern frontend technologies, CMS platforms, design systems, headless architectures, and web performance practices.
• Opportunities to contribute to pre-sales, go-to-market initiatives, and broader technology strategy.
• Collaborative professional services environment spanning technology, design, content, and engineering.
• Opportunity to research and introduce emerging frontend and design technologies into development workflows.

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!

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