Senior CMS Solution Architect / Technical Lead

Aequilibrium Software

19h • Remote

About The Position

Aequilibrium is assembling a senior technical team for a potential large-scale digital experience modernization initiative involving a multi-site, multi-brand public web ecosystem. We are looking for a Senior CMS Solution Architect / Technical Lead with deep experience architecting and delivering enterprise CMS/DXP implementations and migrations. The hourly rate for this multi year contract position is b/w $80/h-$100/h. The successful candidate will help define the technical architecture, guide the implementation team and ensure the solution is secure, scalable, maintainable and appropriate for a complex public-facing digital ecosystem.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software/solution architecture experience with substantial CMS/DXP experience.
• Led at least 2 significant enterprise CMS implementations or re-platforming initiatives.
• Experience designing multi-site / multi-brand CMS architectures.
• Experience with modern headless or hybrid CMS architectures.
• Strong cloud architecture experience.
• Experience with CI/CD and modern software delivery practices.
• Strong understanding of web security, privacy, RBAC, SSO/identity and observability.
• Experience with large-scale automated and manual content migrations.
• Experience working with UX, content and design-system teams rather than operating solely as a backend architect.
• Strong client-facing communication and technical leadership skills.

Nice To Haves

• dotCMS implementation experience
• Liferay migration experience
• Government or Canadian public-sector digital transformation
• Large-scale multi-site implementations
• AWS-based managed CMS environments
• Canadian data residency requirements
• SOC 2 environments
• Entra ID / enterprise identity integration
• WCAG 2.2 AA public websites
• Experience with enterprise platforms such as dotCMS, Liferay, Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore, Contentful, Drupal, Optimizely or comparable platforms is relevant, although direct dotCMS experience would be particularly valuable.

Responsibilities

• Define the overall CMS/DXP solution architecture for a multi-site environment.
• Translate business, UX and content requirements into a scalable technical architecture.
• Define content models, reusable components, templates and multi-site architecture.
• Guide CMS configuration and implementation while minimizing unnecessary customization.
• Develop the approach for migrating a large existing content estate from a legacy enterprise CMS.
• Define integration patterns with identity, analytics, search and other enterprise systems.
• Lead technical design reviews and establish development standards.
• Guide full-stack developers and review implementation quality.
• Establish security-by-design principles across the solution.
• Collaborate with DevOps/SRE specialists on cloud architecture, environments and CI/CD.
• Address performance, scalability, monitoring, logging and operational requirements.
• Support technical documentation, knowledge transfer and production readiness.

Benefits

• Hourly rate b/w $80/h-$100/h
• Multi-year contract

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed