AEM Developer - EMEA

About the role

VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML's specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world's largest and most awarded health agencies. VML's global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney. About WPP WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company - powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com . We are VML Enterprise Solutions - a group of talented engineers, tech experts, and creators who combine our passions and contribute to the IT world. You may know us better as Wunderman Thompson Technology - in 2024 we changed our name, but at the same time, we remained a great team of people who deliver our best. We design, build, manage and run complex technology platforms and help our clients to benefit from our work and creativity. We are looking for a highly skilled AEM Developer with 5+ years of strong hands-on experience in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM Cloud plus 6.x and above). The role is focused on coding, customizing, and extending AEM capabilities to build high-performance, scalable, and maintainable enterprise-level digital platforms.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement AEM components, templates, dialogs, and workflows.
• Write efficient and reusable code using Java, Sling, OSGi, and JCR APIs.
• Build and extend Sling models, servlets, filters, and schedulers.
• Implement HTL (Sightly) for component development and front-end integration.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript into AEM.
• Configure and optimize AEM Dispatcher caching for performance.
• Develop and consume RESTful/GraphQL APIs for integration with external systems.
• Work with Digital Asset Management (DAM) features like metadata schemas, renditions, and workflows.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize AEM code and performance issues.
• Participate in code reviews, unit testing, and CI/CD pipeline deployment.
• What we want from you:
• 5+ years of experience in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM 6.x/Cloud Service).
• Strong programming skills in Java 8+, OSGi, Sling, JCR, HTL (Sightly).
• Hands-on experience with:
• AEM Sites (components, templates, content fragments, experience fragments).
• Dispatcher configuration, caching, and CDN integration.
• Custom workflows, event listeners, and schedulers.
• Strong understanding of Maven, Git, Jenkins/CI-CD pipelines.
• Good knowledge of JSON, REST, GraphQL APIs.
• Experience with unit testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, AEM Mocks).
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology.
• What we can offer you:
• Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we'll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We'll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.
• Our personality and behaviours: We believe that we are what we do, not just what we say. Our shared values and behaviours show how to bring the VML Enterprise Solution's culture to life through the actions we all take every day:
• Connect Meaningfully
• Inspire Creatively
• Include Purposefully
• Approach Positively
• Our brilliant, talented people are what makes VML Enterprise Solutions what we are. That's why we look for people who go beyond and always push our thinking to be better than yesterday.
• AT VML Enterprise Solutions

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