Technical Lead

Our partner is looking for a AEM - UI EDS - Technical Lead / Frontend Development Lead based in India. This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps.

• Lead the end-to-end technical delivery of customer web platforms, including defining scope, timelines, technical solutions, dependencies, and delivery plans.
• Participate in discovery sessions to understand business priorities, customer expectations, and CMS authoring requirements.
• Facilitate workshops involving creative, content, and development teams to define templates, components, requirements, and governance approaches.
• Work directly with customers to gather business requirements, manage expectations, communicate progress, clarify dependencies, and align on delivery timelines.
• Translate business and functional requirements into practical, scalable technical solutions.
• Lead story and task grooming sessions, assess dependencies and prerequisites, and support technical estimation and solutioning activities.
• Design, build, and maintain reusable JavaScript, HTML, and CSS components and frontend solutions.
• Review pull requests, maintain development quality, enforce engineering best practices, and provide technical guidance to development teams.
• Coach and mentor developers, helping strengthen their frontend engineering capabilities and overall delivery practices.
• Support customer content teams with CMS platform usage, authoring guidance, and ongoing technical support.
• Lead feature and product demonstrations for customers and communicate technical solutions effectively to diverse stakeholders.
• Facilitate project retrospectives, identify improvement opportunities, and turn lessons learned into actionable recommendations.
• Collaborate with sales teams on go-to-market service offerings, technical proposals, and pre-sales opportunities.
• Coordinate customer feedback with relevant product teams and contribute to continuous product and service improvements.
• Research emerging frontend, design, CMS, and web technologies to improve development and design workflows.

• 10+ years of professional experience in frontend development, technical leadership, web engineering, or a closely related field.
• Strong experience working with CMS platforms, including a functional understanding of template editors, content authoring workflows, and content roles.
• Expert-level frontend development experience, particularly with JAMstack architectures and modern web platforms.
• Strong proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, including DOM manipulation, JavaScript object models, and modern ES6+ capabilities.
• Experience with responsive design and mobile-oriented web experiences.
• Strong understanding of design systems, style guides, pattern libraries, and reusable component architectures.
• Knowledge of Less or Sass and familiarity with BEM methodology is preferred.
• Familiarity with Atomic Design principles is a plus.
• Experience working with RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
• Understanding of Micro Frontend architectures and headless implementations is an advantage.
• Solid understanding of web accessibility standards, including WCAG guidelines.
• Strong knowledge of content authoring, content usability, information architecture, and effective content structuring within CMS environments.
• Familiarity with design and collaboration tools such as Adobe XD, Sketch, or Figma.
• Experience with modern frontend build pipelines and tools, including Babel, Webpack, NPM, and similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of Git and modern code versioning practices.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into clear technical requirements and implementation plans.
• Strong understanding of web performance optimization, benchmarking, Core Web Vitals, and frontend performance best practices.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on optimization and delivering scalable solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work effectively with customers and cross-functional teams.
• A collaborative, inclusive, customer-centric mindset with the ability to mentor and inspire engineering teams.

• Full-time opportunity in a senior technical leadership position.
• Location flexibility across India, with Bangalore identified as the primary location.
• Opportunity to work remotely depending on project and team requirements.
• Significant ownership over technical architecture, frontend development, and end-to-end delivery.
• Direct exposure to customers and opportunities to influence product and technical strategy.
• Leadership and mentoring opportunities within multidisciplinary development teams.
• Exposure to modern frontend technologies, CMS platforms, design systems, headless architectures, and web performance practices.
• Opportunities to contribute to pre-sales, go-t