Senior Consultant - AEM - Digital Velocity

Description
At CDW, we make it happen, together. Trust, connection, and commitment are at the heart of how we work together to deliver for our customers. It's why we're coworkers, not just employees. Coworkers who genuinely believe in supporting our customers and one another. We collectively forge our path forward with a level of commitment that speaks to who we are and where we're headed. We're proud to share our story and Make Amazing Happen at CDW. Job Summary: The primary purpose of this position is to provide advanced Digital and/or Data consulting solutions to clients. This position may perform activities such as design, systems integration, and testing. This position will also handle client engagements requiring knowledge of multiple technologies and provide technical presales support. This particular role will focus on building software solutions using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and related Adobe products that meet the business needs of our clients
What you will do:
* Performs a variety of billable consulting activities in support of clients' objectives, which may include, but are not limited to:
* Software Development
* Application Administration and Configuration
* Application Integration
* Marketing technology consulting
* User Experience Design
* Data Engineering
* Database Administration
* Software Testing
* DevOps engineering
* Leads code or other technical reviews and presents constructive feedback to technical team
* Participates in requirements gathering activities, examining the entire business application from the aspects of the workflow and the end user
* Builds focused relationships with clients to identify business challenges
* Makes recommendations to solve client problems
* Directly interacts with clients, sales team, managers and other technical team members to identify, develop, and obtain complete information for solutions, and scope statement and level of effort for proposal/SOW development
* Documents completed technical work for clients
* Maintains technical specifications throughout a project
* Contributes and develop best practices, strategies, methodologies and documentation/templates suitable for reuse by other Consultants and Analysts
* Achieve high level of Client Satisfaction on all consulting engagements by executing to achieve client project expectations
* Develop strong client relationships and trust to secure future business
* Reviews and understands all assigned Statement of Work (SOW) obligations prior to services delivery
* Maintains accountability to work estimates and project financials
* Assists with Digital and/or Data practice presales activities
* Provides technical perspective to ensure a realistic estimation of scope, cost and level of effort for proposal generation
* Serves as a point of contact to the client for technical issues and status
* Mentors less senior personnel and serves as escalation point for their technical related project issues
* As needed, steps into team leadership roles and empowers others to increase contribution and level of responsibility
* Complies with all time compliance and time entry guidelines
* Meets billable utilization targets
* Training/Certifications - Engages in professional development, including obtaining industry related certifications as directed by management, to maintain continued growth in professional skills and knowledge
* Administrative Overhead - Respond to email, phone calls, complete time cards in a timely manner, expense reports and status reports as required
What we expect of you:
* Bachelor's degree and 5 years of related work experience with one or more Digital and/or Data solutions in the Sirius portfolio, including hands on development experience with each of the following:
* AEM v6.x Sites
* AEM v6.x Assets
* AEM Cloud Service
* Or 9 years of related work experience with one or more Digital and/or Data solutions in the Sirius portfolio, including hands on development experience with each of the above
* Demonstrated knowledge, implementation skills, and understanding of the core AEM Sites and Asset
* stack and AEM architectural concepts
* Experience with AEM Sites and Assets administration, upgrades and migrations
* Experience developing custom AEM Sites and Assets components and workflows
* Experience integrating AEM with other products/vendors
* Experience with core frameworks, such as Java EE, Apache, Felix, OSGI, Apache Sling, and/or Jackrabbit
* Experience with RESTful services
* Demonstrated ability with JavaScript libraries, such as (jQuery, ExtJS), HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
* Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with a wide variety of client and Sirius team members, including management and technical staff
* Demonstrated ability to investigate complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in- depth evaluation of variable factors from multiple solutions and/or disciplines
* Demonstrated understanding of core business functions of a typical company, and ability to employ step by step logic to solve business problems
* Experience as a member of a technical project team, from design through delivery
* Experience troubleshooting and identifying potential problems and making appropriate changes as necessary
* Experience creating technical documentation and communicating effectively in various written formats
* Demonstrated ability to provide guidance and leadership to less experienced technical team members, including delegating technical tasks, and at times resolving issues of poor technical execution without escalation
* Demonstrated presentation and communication skills, including effectively communicating one-on-one, and in
* small and large groups, using a variety of presentation methods to sustain the audiences' engagement
* Demonstrated time management and organizational skills; ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
* Demonstrated ability to establish positive working relationships and conduct complex and important work critical to the organization in a team consulting environment
* Demonstrated ability to use common Java design patterns and a working knowledge of AEM best practices to create custom templates, components, workflows and dialogs, a plus
* Experience with AEM Multi Site Manager, AEM Communities, Adobe Campaign and Adobe Target, a plus
* Demonstrated knowledge of Java development and deployment tools, such as Eclipse, Maven, Git, a plus
* Experience developing systems using Agile methodologies, a plus
* Experience in documenting user stories, system test scripts, and user acceptance test script, a plus
* Demonstrated knowledge of Business Analysis modeling tools (e.g. Activity Diagrams, Process Flows, State Diagrams), a plus
* Consulting experience, especially in an agency or global systems integrator environment, a plus
* Certifications in relevant areas of specialty, a plus
* Pay range
* : $103,000 - $153,400, depending on experience and skill set Annual bonus target of $15,000 subject to terms and conditions of plan Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/ Salary ranges may be subject to geographic differentials
* We make technology work so people can do great things.
* CDW is a leading multi-brand provider of information technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare customers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. A Fortune 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Index, CDW helps its customers to navigate an increasingly complex IT market and maximize return on their technology investments. Together, we unite. Together, we win. Together, we thrive. CDW is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by state and local law.