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Contract Technical Architect

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 of architectural vision and hands-on AEM expertise, ensuring every feature across the suite delivers scalability, security, compliance, and measurable business value. The Product Architect will serve as the central technical authority, bridging AEM, Veeva Vault, BrowserStack, and analytics systems to enable a connected digital ecosystem for the Pharma and Life Sciences domain.

Contract Details

  • Position Type: Contract

  • Rate Range: $60–$80 per hour (USD)

  • Expected Start Date: Immediately

  • Expected Duration: Indefinite

  • Expected Hours: 30-40 hours per week

  • Location: Remote (U.S. or Canada only)

  • Timezone: Flexible, but must be available during standard business hours to attend internal and client meetings

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 of AEM Core Concepts, including Templates, Components, Dialogs, Clientlibs, Editable Templates, and Experience Fragments.
  • Assets & Metadata Architecture:Architect robust strategies for Assets metadata schemas, Tag Management, and Taxonomy 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 from Adobe AEM Cloud, Adobe EDS, Java, Veeva Vault, and BrowserStack, 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-depth code reviews, enforce security and performance standards, and ensure every delivery aligns with architectural guidelines.
  • Core Knowledge Stewardship:Maintain and promote strong expertise in Core Java, AEM, Veeva, and BrowserStack principles; 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 manage product licensing and version tracking across environments.
  • CI/CD Ownership:Maintain and enhance end-to-end CI/CD pipelines(Jenkins, JFrog, Maven, Git), ensuring stable, automated builds, and controlled deployments.
  • Testing Automation:Integrate Selenium and BrowserStack 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 govern AEM OSGi Services, Configurations, and Servlets, ensuring clean modularization and loose coupling.
  • Develop and maintain AEM Workflowsfor metadata validation, approval processes, publishing, and integration with external systems such as Veeva Vault.
  • Enforce best practices for Clientlibs organization, caching strategies, and performance optimization within AEM’s front-end architecture.
  • Maintain high reusability across AEM Components, ensuring all features are cloud-ready and adhere to Adobe’s evolving AEMaaCS standards.

Data, Analytics & Governance

  • Data Layer Architecture:Architect and standardize a Data Layer framework to capture consistent analytics data across templates and components.
  • Analytics Integration:Enable data flow into Adobe Analytics, Customer Journey Analytics (CJA), and Google Analytics for performance and behavioral insights.
  • Metadata & Tag Governance:Define and enforce best practices for metadata schema design, tag management, and asset taxonomy across the entire product suite.
  • Compliance Alignment: Ensure architectural compliance with MLR (Medical, Legal, Regulatory) and Pharma 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 using SonarQube, enforce JUnit/Mockito unit 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 emerging AEM, Veeva, and BrowserStack capabilities.
  • Cross-Platform Value Delivery:Ensure all features across the suite contribute cohesively toward value creation, authoring efficiency, and omnichannel content reuse.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of previous experience working as an AEM Technical Architect.  

  • Hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) — including templates, Components, Dialogs, Clientlibs, Assets Metadata Schemas, Tag Management, AEM Workflows, OSGi Services, AEM Configurations, AEM Cloud, AEM Assets as a Cloud Service AEM EDS.

  • Strong backend development experience with Core Java concepts, OSGi Framework, Servlets, Event Handlers, Sling Models, JCR Queries, and PDF APIs (iText).

  • Working knowledge of frontend and UX development, including modular content, layouts, UI/UX principles, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and HTL (Sightly).

  • Expertise in analytics and data architecture, including Data Layer design, Adobe Analytics, Customer Journey Analytics (CJA), Google Analytics, metadata governance, tagging frameworks, and data encryption strategies. 
  • Experience designing and implementing automated testing frameworks leveraging Selenium (Core Component), BrowserStack Integration, Mockito, JUnit, and SonarQube to ensure code quality, maintainability, and performance across environments.

  • Strong understanding of DevOps and release management practices, including CI/CD pipeline architecture using Jenkins, GIT (branching strategy), Maven, JFrog, and Artifactory. Experienced in product licensing, version control, and release governance to enable efficient, reliable deployments.

  • Excellent communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills

  • Industry and platform familiarity with Pharma domain processes, MLR workflows, and Veeva Vault. Working knowledge of Agile collaboration tools such as JIRA and Confluence is a plus.

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 meet every 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.

Bring your best self – your whole self – and do the work of your life here at QD!

 

 

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