Adobe Experience Engineering Manager

Ford • Dearborn, MI

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a seasoned Adobe Development Manager within the Ford Marketing and Sales Global Dealer Platforms team, you will lead the architecture, design, and delivery of the FMC Dealer Portal. This high-impact role blends strategic oversight and team mentorship to significantly enhance Ford’s global dealer communication capabilities.
Drive the end-to-end design, development, and deployment of scalable applications, specifically leveraging AEM as a Cloud Service (AEMaaCS).
Mentor a cross-functional team of developers, architects, and QA engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and innovation.
Oversee project timelines, resource allocation, and budgets across multiple concurrent workstreams to ensure high-quality, on-time delivery.
Champion best practices in AEM development (OSGi, Sling, Java), CI/CD automation, and the creation of reusable components and workflows.
Serve as the primary technical point of contact for internal business partners, translating complex requirements into robust technical roadmaps.
Provide thought leadership on Adobe Experience Cloud integrations, including Adobe Analytics, CDN, Real-Time CDP, and CUGS.
You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years in AEM development, including at least 4 years in a technical leadership or management role.
• Expert-level knowledge of AEM architecture, AEMaaCS, distributed microservices, and integrating AEM with third-party APIs.
• Expertise in designing and maintaining Blueprints, Live Copies, and custom Rollout Configurations to ensure content consistency and operational efficiency across a 50+ multi-site regional footprint.
• Experience in architecting the Adobe AEM Assets (DAM) repository, ensuring scalable metadata schemas, search facets, and folder structures.
• Proven track record in Agile methodologies and managing full-stack engineering teams.
• Current authorization to work in the United States on a full-time basis and ability to work in a hybrid mode (four days on-site) in Dearborn, Michigan.
• Ability to navigate competing visions from stakeholders and technical partners with a solution-oriented mindset.
• Exceptional ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience with Adobe Target, Adobe Campaign, and Adobe Launch.
• Familiarity with front-end frameworks (React/Angular) and cloud infrastructure (GCP, AKS, or AWS).
• Adobe Certified Master or Architect in AEM/Adobe Experience Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Drive the end-to-end design, development, and deployment of scalable applications, specifically leveraging AEM as a Cloud Service (AEMaaCS).
• Mentor a cross-functional team of developers, architects, and QA engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and innovation.
• Oversee project timelines, resource allocation, and budgets across multiple concurrent workstreams to ensure high-quality, on-time delivery.
• Champion best practices in AEM development (OSGi, Sling, Java), CI/CD automation, and the creation of reusable components and workflows.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for internal business partners, translating complex requirements into robust technical roadmaps.
• Provide thought leadership on Adobe Experience Cloud integrations, including Adobe Analytics, CDN, Real-Time CDP, and CUGS.
• Lead the design and optimization of automated Localization Workflows to support rapid global content deployment, including familiarity with fragments.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees