Headless CMS Solutions Architect

Accountabilities

• • Lead client discovery workshops, stakeholder interviews, and consulting engagements to understand business, editorial, technical, integration, security, and content requirements.
  • Gather, analyze, and document current-state requirements and translate them into scalable future-state digital platform architectures.
  • Evaluate headless CMS platforms and objectively recommend solutions based on client needs, technical constraints, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
  • Design scalable content models, schemas, reusable components, taxonomies, metadata structures, and composable content architectures.
  • Define editorial workflows, approval processes, role-based permissions, localization strategies, and publishing processes.
  • Design integrations between CMS platforms and enterprise applications, services, APIs, and other digital systems.
  • Develop architectures for multilingual content, accessibility, technical SEO, search, content governance, and modern web standards.
  • Design CMS migration strategies for legacy platforms such as Drupal, WordPress, Sitecore, and custom-built systems.
  • Assess how headless CMS solutions should integrate with AWS-based applications and infrastructure, including services such as S3, CloudFront, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, Cognito, IAM, Route 53, WAF, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, and EventBridge.
  • Collaborate closely with front-end, cloud, DevOps, security, UX, and development teams to ensure architectural decisions can be implemented effectively.
  • Produce architecture diagrams, technology recommendations, implementation roadmaps, technical documentation, and other solution-design materials.
  • Present architectural recommendations clearly to executives, business stakeholders, content teams, IT departments, and developers.
  • Identify technical risks, dependencies, and potential scalability challenges throughout discovery and solution design.
  • Challenge requirements constructively when simpler, more scalable, or more maintainable approaches are appropriate.
  • Support implementation planning and ensure proposed solutions align with business objectives and technical realities.

  Requirements:

  • Significant professional experience working with headless CMS and composable digital-platform architectures.
  • Strong hands-on experience with at least two of Storyblok, Sanity, Contentful, or Strapi, with familiarity across the broader platform landscape preferred.
  • Practical experience with Storyblok features such as Visual Editor, components, workflows, localization, roles and permissions, Content Delivery API, and Management API.
  • Practical experience with Sanity, including Sanity Studio, structured content, schemas, GROQ, Content Lake, custom editorial experiences, and integrations.
  • Practical experience with Contentful, including content models, localization, environments, permissions, workflows, Content Delivery API, and Content Management API.
  • Practical experience with Strapi, including Content Type Builder, components, Dynamic Zones, REST and GraphQL APIs, permissions, plugins, and cloud or self-hosted deployments.
  • Experience leading CMS or digital-platform discovery and recommending enterprise content-management solutions.
  • Strong understanding of AWS and cloud-based architecture, with the ability to design solutions and collaborate effectively with cloud and DevOps specialists.
  • Strong knowledge of REST APIs, GraphQL, webhooks, API integrations, structured content, and composable architecture.
  • Experience with JavaScript and/or TypeScript and modern front-end frameworks such as React, Next.js, Vue, or Nuxt.
  • Experience designing enterprise systems integrations and CMS migration strategies.
  • Strong understanding of content governance, multilingual and localized content, role-based permissions, editorial workflows, technical SEO, accessibility, and modern web standards.
  • Experience producing architecture diagrams, technical documentation, implementation roadmaps, and technology recommendations.
  • Strong consulting, communication, facilitation, and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for different audiences.
  • Comfortable working with executives, business stakeholders, content teams, IT departments, developers, and other technical specialists.
  • Ability to evaluate technologies objectively, identify risks and dependencies, and communicate architectural trade-offs clearly.
  • Experience with enterprise search, Digital Asset Management, CRM, LMS, marketing automation, analytics, or identity platforms is an asset.
  • Additional experience with AWS Solutions Architect certification, CMS certifications, Next.js/React, Node.js, Terraform or Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, DevOps, AWS OpenSearch, Digital Asset Management platforms, CRM, marketing automation, or Learning Management Systems is considered a plus.

  Benefits:

  • Fully remote working arrangement.
  • Opportunity to work on modern headless and composable CMS architectures.
  • Exposure to multiple leading CMS platforms, including Storyblok, Sanity, Contentful, and Strapi.
  • Opportunity to design and advise on enterprise digital platforms within an AWS cloud environment.
  • Senior, client-facing role with significant involvement in discovery, consulting, architecture, and implementation planning.
  • Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams spanning cloud, DevOps, security, UX, front-end, and development.
  • Opportunity to work on complex digital transformation and CMS migration initiatives.
  • Exposure to enterprise integrations, structured content, multilingual platforms, search, content governance, and modern web technologies.
  • Compensation and additional benefits according to the applicable local package.