Senior AEM Engineer

Senior AEM Engineer

Choice Hotels, one of the world’s largest lodging franchisors, has an exciting new opportunity as our Senior AEM Engineer in the Digital Experience Engineering team. The Digital Experience Engineering team builds and maintains the platforms that power our customer-facing web and mobile experiences, ensuring seamless, scalable, and secure digital journeys for millions of travelers.
As a key member of our Digital Experience Engineering team, you will lead the architecture, development, and optimization of our Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) platform—driving innovation and performance across our digital ecosystem.
Are you a collaborative, detail-oriented engineer with a passion for scalable architecture and mentoring others? We invite you to apply today for our Senior AEM Engineer role and #MakeItYourChoice.

*** PLEASE NOTE: This role is not eligible for sponsorship *** 

• Architect and implement scalable AEM solutions across author, publish, and dispatcher tiers.
• Design and document custom components, workflows, and integrations with third-party systems (e.g., CRM, analytics, DAM).
• Maintain dispatcher configurations, caching strategies, and performance tuning.
• Identify and resolve technical debt, ensuring long-term platform stability and maintainability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, UX, QA, and DevOps to deliver high-quality digital experiences.
• Provide mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers.
• Maintain up-to-date architectural diagrams, codebase documentation, and tribal knowledge repositories.
• Participate in roadmap planning and sprint execution.
• Contribute to coding standards and onboarding documentation.
• Review upcoming sprint work and anticipate technical challenges.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (required); Master’s degree preferred.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in AEM development and architecture.
• Deep expertise in AEM 6.x+, including Sling, OSGi, JCR, and HTL/Sightly.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and cloud-based deployments (e.g., Adobe Cloud Manager).
• Experience with dispatcher rules, CDN configurations, and performance optimization.
• Advanced proficiency in Java, including object-oriented design, multithreading, and integration with enterprise systems.
• Proficiency in Python, particularly for scripting automation tasks, data transformation pipelines, and integration testing. Familiarity with libraries such as requests, pandas, or pytest is a plus.
• Demonstrates key competencies including:
    - Technical Leadership
    - Decision Quality
    - Manages Complexity

This is an individual contributor role that will report to the Senior Manager, Software Engineering. You will have 4–6 peer teammates and collaborate with cross-functional departments on a regular basis.

As our Senior AEM Engineer, you will be based in our beautiful, state-of-the-art technology hub in Scottsdale, AZ. Right now, our associates in Scottsdale, AZ are working in a hybrid environment—up to 4 days per week in the office and virtually from your home office the remaining days. We provide flexibility and encourage ongoing communication with your leadership to establish expectations about your unique needs.

Choice prioritizes our associate wellbeing by offering a comprehensive benefits program that is both competitive and flexible to help you achieve your wellbeing goals - here are just a few:

• Competitive compensation and benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Leave and paid time-off for holidays, vacation, personal, family, volunteer, sick, jury duty, bereavement, military, and religious observance
• Financial benefits for retirement and health savings
• Employee recognition programs
• Discounts at Choice hotels worldwide

About Choice

Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH), is one of the largest lodging franchisors in the world. With 7,500 hotels in 45+ countries and territories, we offer a range of high-quality lodging options in the upper upscale, upper midscale, midscale, extended stay, and economy segments. We’re the hotel company for those who choose to bet on themselves — the striver, the dreamer, the entrepreneur — because that’s who we are, too.

At Choice, we are united by the simple belief that tomorrow will be even better than today — for associates, our company, and our franchisees. At our worldwide corporate headquarters in North Bethesda, Maryland, at our technology center in Scottsdale, Arizona, and through our associates around the globe, every voice is heard and every idea is listened to, no matter what area of the company they come from. We are united in supporting the entrepreneurial dreams of our thousands of franchise owners, which propels us forward — giving our work at Choice a purpose larger than our business.

Our corporate office locations:

North Bethesda, MD — Located at Pike & Rose, our worldwide headquarters is less than 15 miles from Washington, D.C., one block away from the North Bethesda Metro station, with easy access to I-495, complimentary parking, electronic charging stations, restaurants and retail.

Scottsdale, AZ — Located at the northwest corner of Loop 101, the Scottsdale office is home to our technology, eCommerce and customer service organizations, with easy access to complimentary parking, electronic charging stations, restaurants and retail.

Minneapolis, MN — Select roles are based in our Minneapolis office on Highway 394, near the intersection with Highway 100, only five minutes from downtown.

Field/Remote — Select roles designated as field/remote will require associates to work from a home office, connecting virtually with Choice team members and leadership on Zoom, with possible required travel depending on the role.  

Choice’s Cultural Values

Welcome and Respect Everyone | Be Bold | Be Quick | Listen | Be Curious | Show Integrity

Choice’s Leadership Principles

Act with Intention | Lead with Authenticity | Grow & Deliver