Principal Developer, AEM Lead

the ability to influence technical direction across squads. You will lead complex development efforts, mentor senior engineers, and ensure our digital experiences meet the highest standards of performance, security, and usability.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership

• Lead design and implementation of full-stack AEM solutions, ensuring best practices across front-end and back-end development.

• Translate business goals into technical requirements and drive projects through the full software development lifecycle.

• Lead performance tuning, code optimization, and advanced debugging across environments.

• Ensure code quality through rigorous reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD best practices

• Conduct design and code reviews, ensuring performance, scalability, and maintainability of digital platforms across on-prem, cloud, and Edge environments.

• Partner with Visual Design and UX teams to deliver effective and engaging web and mobile experiences.

• Own and enhance specific areas of Waters.com such as product pages, search, account, video experiences, and performance optimization.

• Development & Delivery

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, stable, and secure web, mobile, and eCommerce solutions using AEM and related technologies.

• Develop AEM components, templates, workflows, and experience fragments to support content authors and marketing teams.

• Collaborate with DevOps and QA teams to ensure efficient deployment pipelines, testing, and quality delivery.

• Contribute to continuous improvement through modern engineering practices and automation.

• Collaboration & Mentorship

• Work within an agile/scrum framework, coordinating efforts across squads and supporting continuous delivery initiatives.

• Mentor senior and junior developers, promoting best practices in coding, testing, and documentation.

• Lead technical workshops, spike investigations, and internal knowledge sharing.

• Communicate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders, providing clear technical insights and recommendations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development experience, including full lifecycle AEM implementations.

• Expertise in AEM development-front-end and back-end (Sling, OSGi, JCR, Workflows, Components).

• Proven experience leading complex AEM implementations across on-prem, cloud, and edge.

• Mastery of Java, J2EE, JavaScript, React, HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery.

• Experience with performance optimization, security, and accessibility standards.

• Experience coding standards-compliant, cross-browser-compatible HTML/CSS.

• Hands-on experience with AEM integrations and content management best practices.

• Familiarity with continuous deployment, DevOps, and version control (Git).

• Proven success working in agile/scrum environments.

• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills.

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in analytical instruments, separations technologies, and software, serving the life, materials, food, and environmental sciences for over 65 years. Our Company helps ensure the efficacy of medicines, the safety of food and the purity of water, and the quality and sustainability of products used every day. In over 100 countries, our 7,600+ passionate employees collaborate with customers in laboratories, manufacturing sites, and hospitals to accelerate the benefits of pioneering science.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.