Lead Software Engineer – AEM & Forms

We are seeking a highly skilled Expert Software Engineer – AEM & Forms to design, build, integrate, and support the experience layer of Agilent.com as part of a product-oriented POD. This role is intended for an expert-level engineer who can operate beyond just hands-on development by partnering closely with Product Leaders, serving as a Technical Product Owner (TPO) when needed, shaping technical direction, guiding engineering team members, and translating customer and business priorities into scalable digital capabilities. The engineer will work hands-on with Adobe DA.live, Edge Delivery Services (EDS), Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Cloud Service, and Adobe Forms to build modern, high-performing frontend applications and reusable experience components. The role requires strong frontend engineering expertise, practical experience using frontend design systems, proven experience delivering globally scaled customer-facing applications, and the ability to create DA.live Blocks that support content, product discovery, catalog, personalization, and customer journey use cases. Experience with HTL, AWS services, and AEM Assets is a plus.

This role currently follows a hybrid work model. Work arrangements may evolve based on future business needs.

• →Work within a cross-functional POD to deliver customer-facing experience-layer capabilities for Agilent.com across content, product discovery, catalog, personalization, and guided digital journeys.
• →Design, build, and support modern frontend applications and reusable experience components using Adobe DA.live, Edge Delivery Services (EDS), and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Cloud Service.
• →Create, enhance, and maintain DA.live Blocks that use frontend design systems to deliver consistent, accessible, scalable, and reusable customer experience patterns.
• →Develop experience-layer capabilities that make Agilent.com more personalized for customers based on content, product, catalog, journey, and contextual experience needs.
• →Build new product and catalog capabilities that improve customer discovery, comparison, evaluation, and engagement with Agilent products and services.
• →Develop and support Adobe Forms capabilities for customer-facing workflows, lead capture, guided interactions, request flows, and digital self-service experiences.
• →Partner with product managers, UX designers, content teams, catalog teams, architects, QA, analytics, and platform engineers to translate business and customer needs into maintainable frontend solutions.
• →Operate as a Technical Product Owner (TPO) within the POD by partnering closely with Product Leaders to clarify outcomes, shape backlog priorities, define technical acceptance criteria, and align delivery with business value.
• →Integrate frontend experiences with AEM content models, catalog services, personalization services, analytics, APIs, and other enterprise digital platforms as needed.
• →Ensure frontend applications are performant, accessible, responsive, secure, observable, and optimized for business-critical customer journeys across global Agilent.com experiences.
• →Apply strong engineering practices including modular design, reusable components, code reviews, automated testing, performance optimization, documentation, and production support.
• →Guide and mentor other engineering team members on solution design, application architecture, reusable component development, coding standards, testing practices, and production-quality implementation.
• →Contribute to agile delivery, backlog refinement, technical design, estimation, sprint execution, release readiness, and continuous improvement within the POD.
• →Continuously improve frontend engineering patterns that enable faster delivery, better personalization, higher reuse, and measurable customer experience outcomes across Agilent’s digital channels.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, Web Development, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience building customer-facing web applications, frontend platforms, content experiences, or enterprise digital experience capabilities.
• Strong hands-on experience developing applications on Adobe DA.live, Adobe Edge Delivery Services (EDS), and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Cloud Service.
• Required experience developing, configuring, integrating, and supporting Adobe Forms for customer-facing workflows and digital experience use cases.
• Strong frontend engineering skills using modern JavaScript, HTML, CSS, responsive design, accessibility standards, browser performance practices, and reusable component patterns.
• Experience using frontend design systems to build consistent, reusable, accessible, and brand-aligned user interface components.
• Hands-on experience creating DA.live Blocks and experience components that support scalable content authoring, personalization, product discovery, catalog experiences, and customer journeys.
• Experience integrating frontend experiences with AEM content, APIs, product and catalog data services, personalization capabilities, analytics, and enterprise digital platforms.
• Strong understanding of content-driven digital experience architectures, component-based design, authoring models, reusable templates, and customer journey optimization.
• Experience building performant, accessible, SEO-conscious, secure, and globally scalable web experiences for large enterprise websites or digital commerce platforms.
• Proven experience working on customer-facing applications that have scaled globally across regions, languages, markets, performance expectations, and enterprise operating requirements.
• Ability to translate customer, product, catalog, content, and personalization requirements into reliable, maintainable, and reusable frontend solutions.
• Experience with agile delivery, backlog refinement, technical design, estimation, code reviews, automated testing, release readiness, CI/CD, and production support.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning skills across frontend applications, browser behavior, network calls, content delivery, and integration points.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical mindset, attention to detail, and ability to operate effectively in a product-oriented agile POD.
• Strong soft skills, including executive-level communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, influence without authority, active listening, and the ability to work closely with Product Leaders in a fast-moving POD model.
• Ability to operate as a Technical Product Owner (TPO) by connecting product strategy, customer needs, technical feasibility, backlog refinement, delivery trade-offs, and measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to guide engineering team members on application design, development approaches, implementation patterns, technical quality, and scalable engineering practices.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative perspective across engineering, UX, product management, content, catalog, architecture, QA, analytics, and business stakeholders.

• Ability to fully utilize agentic development techniques, including AI-assisted coding, automated test generation, code review support, documentation acceleration, and workflow automation, to improve engineering efficiency, delivery speed, and overall development quality.
• Adobe Certified Expert – Adobe Experience Platform or equivalent certifications.
• Experience with Adobe Experience Platform Web SDK and Mobile SDK.
• Experience with GitHub Actions for CI/CD automation, build validation, deployment workflows, and release engineering is a plus.
• Exposure to marketing automation platforms and customer data platforms (CDPs).