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.

Architecture & Solution Design

• 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.

CMS & Digital Experience Platforms

• 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.

Technical Leadership & Quality

• 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.

Cloud & DevOps

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

• Define observability, monitoring, logging, and DR frameworks.

Estimation & Stakeholder Management

• 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.

Experience & Leadership

• 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.

CMS / DXP

• 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.

Front-End Architecture

• Deep hands-on experience with at least one modern JS framework (React, Angular, Vue, or Next.js) 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.)

Back-End / Services Architecture

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

• Strong REST and/or GraphQL API design.

Distributed & Integration Architecture

• API-first and microservices design.

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

Cloud & DevOps

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

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

Data

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

Non-Functional Requirements (core to this role)

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