Tools Developer

Required Skills

• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining automation scripts for Adobe Creative Cloud applications.
• Demonstrated experience specifically developing scripts for Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator,
and Adobe Photoshop.
• Demonstrated advanced proficiency in JavaScript/ExtendScript and demonstrated experience using Adobe application-specific scripting interfaces and object models.
• Demonstrated experience with Adobe UXP, CEP, or other Adobe extensibility technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, modify, debug, test, document, and maintain production-quality Adobe scripts.
• Demonstrated experience automating complex production workflows involving document creation or modification, graphics and asset manipulation, file processing, and document export.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting scripts following Adobe Creative Cloud application updates, operating-system changes, changes to source documents, and changes to production workflows, and assessing the impact of Adobe Creative Cloud version changes on existing automation.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze existing/legacy Adobe scripts, identify defects or performance issues, and modify or refactor scripts while preserving required functionality.
• Demonstrated experience implementing appropriate error handling, validation, logging, and recovery mechanisms in automation scripts.
• Demonstrated experience developing scripts that interact with web APis, local file systems, directories, and common production file formats.
• Demonstrated experience with software development lifecycle practices, including requirements analysis, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, and defect resolution.
• Demonstrated experience using source-code/version-control systems such as Git or an equivalent technology.
• Demonstrated experience diagnosing and resolving production defects within established service or project timelines.
• Demonstrated experience developing maintainable, modular, and documented code.
• Demonstrated experience creating technical documentation describing script architecture, dependencies, configuration, installation, operation, and known limitations.
• Demonstrated experience developing test cases and conduct functional and regression testing.

Highly Desired Skills and Demonstrated Experience

Skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not required to perform the work include:

• Demonstrated experience with Adobe InDesign Server.
• Demonstrated experience with automated build, deployment, or testing processes.
• Demonstrated experience supporting large-scale publishing, digital media, graphic production, or prepress environments.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining enterprise-level or mission-critical Adobe automation.
• Demonstrated experience with sharing of files between InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
• Demonstrated experience with automated generation of graphics, charts and tables for placement in InDesign or Illustrator.
• Demonstrated experience with authoring Adobe plugins.
• Demonstrated experience with automated processing of linked assets.
• Demonstrated experience with coordinating file naming, directory, and asset-management processes.
• Demonstrated experience with batch processing across multiple Adobe applications.
• Demonstrated experience integrating Adobe scripting with external files or structured data sources.