Senior Technical Architect CMS & Digital Experience

We are looking for a Senior Technical Architect to provide technical leadership on an established large-scale enterprise digital program (a running account with multi-year continuity). This is a hands-on-enough architecture leadership role: you will own the technical quality of the platform end to end drive estimation and solutioning and act as the guardian of non-functional requirements security performance accessibility and analytics/observability across every release.

The right person is equally comfortable in an architecture review an estimation workshop and a client-facing solution conversation and can hold the technical line on a mature codebase while continuously modernizing it. The role is not tied to a single account you will be expected to bring architecture leadership across engagements as needs evolve.

Define and evolve the end-to-end architecture for enterprise web mobile and CMS-driven applications on the account.

Design composable headless API-first and microservices-based solutions that are scalable secure and high-performing.

Establish and maintain architecture standards design principles and governance frameworks.

Lead technical discovery solution roadmaps and modernization planning.

Architect enterprise CMS/DXP solutions including headless and hybrid patterns.

Define content modeling personalization localization workflow and publishing strategies.

Lead CMS migrations upgrades and modernization programs.

Integrate the CMS with CRM CDP DAM marketing automation and analytics platforms.

Provide technical leadership across front-end and back-end engineering teams.

Own coding standards architecture reviews performance tuning and secure-by-design practices.

Define reusable components shared platform services and API contracts.

Architect cloud-native solutions and own CI/CD IaC containerization and orchestration.

Define observability monitoring logging and DR frameworks.

Lead effort estimation solution costing and pre-sales / proposal support for the account.

Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Partner with product owners delivery managers and client stakeholders; mentor the team.

12 years in software engineering with 5 years as a Technical / Solution Architect.

Proven track record delivering and sustaining large-scale CMS/DXP programs ideally on an established / running enterprise account.

Demonstrated ownership of technical quality estimation and stakeholder communication.

Deep hands-on architecture experience with at least one enterprise CMS/DXP e.g. Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Sitecore Optimizely Contentful or Drupal.

Practical experience with headless / hybrid / composable CMS patterns content modeling personalization and multi-locale publishing.

Experience leading a CMS migration or modernization program.

Deep hands-on experience with at least one modern JS framework (React Angular Vue or ) and strong command of TypeScript / ES6.

Component / design-system thinking and front-end performance ownership. (Breadth across multiple frameworks is a plus not a requirement.)

Depth in at least one server-side stack (.NET Core Java/Spring Boot or Python).

Strong REST and/or GraphQL API design.

API-first and microservices design.

Event-driven architecture pub/sub and messaging/streaming (e.g. Kafka Azure Service Bus or equivalent); reactive patterns.

Cloud-native architecture on at least one major cloud (Azure AWS or GCP).

CI/CD Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and containerization/orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes).

Polyglot persistence comfortable with at least one relational and one NoSQL store; able to make sound data-modeling and caching decisions.

Demonstrable ownership of security (secure-by-design OWASP IAM concepts) performance & scalability accessibility (WCAG) and analytics/observability.