Job Description

Verndale is a digital experience agency dedicated to driving growth by helping businesses create meaningful human connections in an increasingly digital world. With offices in Boston, Montreal, Los Angeles, Quito, and hubs across the Americas, we partner with marketing and technology leaders to deliver personalized web, mobile, and ecommerce solutions that elevate customer experiences.

At Verndale, we thrive on collaboration and innovation, offering a full range of services that span strategy, design, development, personalization, SEO, analytics, and digital advertising. We celebrate diversity and inclusion, striving to create a climate of respect essential for both individual and company success.

If you're ready to be part of a passionate team dedicated to making an impact and driving growth, we invite you to explore a career at Verndale.

About the role

Verndale is a digital experience agency that helps enterprise organizations build and evolve complex, content-driven websites. We're looking for a senior, hands-on AEM Architect to lead optimization efforts for a large-scale AEM implementation. Strong focus is on consulting and engaging with client business and technical teams, leading development and optimization efforts with client and Verndale Engineering teams. Optimization efforts will focus on component development, template and policy design, troubleshooting, modernizing authoring experiences and implementing AI tooling to improve workflow and authoring.

This is a developer-architect hybrid role. You'll define strong solutions and help implement them directly, working alongside cross-functional teams to improve authoring, maintainability, and delivery speed on real, complex projects. AI and agentic workflow experience is a plus, but the core need is deep AEM expertise and a builder mindset.

Responsibilities

• Consult with client business and technical teams on current AEM implementation and areas for improvement.
• Lead hands-on AEM architecture and development across components, templates, policies, styles, and content models for enterprise websites.
• Diagnose and fix broken or poorly implemented AEM components, improving overall quality, maintainability, and authoring flexibility.
• Design and build new reusable components and page-building patterns that support scalable content authoring.
• Convert flat or hard-coded page experiences into reusable AEM components, templates, and libraries so authors can manage content directly in the platform.
• Partner with cross-functional teammates and client stakeholders to assess technical requirements, recommend implementation approaches, and guide execution.
• Produce technical documentation, implementation guidance, estimates, and proof-of-concept work as needed to unblock delivery teams and reduce risk.
• Mentor engineers and serve as the senior technical point of contact on AEM implementation decisions, code quality, and best practices.
• Identify opportunities where AI-assisted workflows can accelerate component generation or content transformation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of AEM architecture and/or development experience, with demonstrated depth in enterprise-scale implementations.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining AEM components, templates, policies, styling systems, and authoring patterns — including AEM 6.x and/or AEM as a Cloud Service (AEMaaCS).
• Proven ability to work as both architect and builder, balancing solution design with direct implementation in code.
• Experience troubleshooting legacy or inconsistent implementations and refactoring them into scalable, maintainable patterns.
• Strong front-end fundamentals: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and component-based, standards-based web development.
• Experience collaborating with designers, front-end and back-end engineers, QA, and client stakeholders in agency or consulting environments.
• Ability to estimate work, identify risks, document technical decisions, and communicate tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfort operating across large, complex organizations where governance, scale, and stakeholder coordination matter.

Nice to Have

• Adobe certifications or other relevant AEM credentials.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools or agentic workflows that can accelerate component generation, content transformation, or delivery support.
• Experience working in distributed delivery teams alongside US-based stakeholders.

Ten Great Reasons to Work at Verndale

1. We are a rapidly growing company that is just as scrappy and entrepreneurial today as when we were founded in 1998.
2. We are relentlessly curious and enthusiastically solve our clients’ complex business problems through technology, data, and design.
3. We foster a culture that enables every person in the organization to do the best work of their career.
4. We offer regular training and professional development to move careers forward.
5. Client and employee satisfaction are our two most important business metrics.
6. We celebrate and champion diversity, equity, and inclusion.
7. We offer generous paid company holidays, vacation, and paid sick time to every employee starting on day one.
8. We offer top-of-the-line Health Insurance, plus monthly perks customized to meet individual employees’ needs.
9. We support a healthy work/life balance.
10. We are fully remote enabled and embrace the evolving definition of the workplace

Compensation & Benefits

In accordance with applicable law, the salary range is Verndale's reasonable estimate of the salary for this role. The actual amount may vary, based on non-discriminatory factors such as location, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities. In addition to salary, Verndale also offers a competitive benefits package.

Verndale is proud of the fun, diverse, and respectful company environment we enjoy on a daily basis. Competitive compensation and comprehensive coverage for medical, dental, life, disability and an RRSP savings plan are offered to all salaried, full-time employees. Ample company paid holidays and personal time off make having a work-life balance possible. For some roles, remote work is a definite possibility; we believe in hiring the best and keeping our own happy and motivated.

Verndale is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.