CMS Architect

Accenture; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 99,450 - 209,900; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Song in Canada is seeking a Senior Digital Experience Lead to drive large-scale WCMS implementations using AEM, OpenText, Contentful, Optimizely, or Sitecore. The role requires strong architectural leadership, hands-on delivery, and cross-functional collaboration across teams and stakeholders across North America.

You will mentor teams, engage with sales on new opportunities, and travel as needed to deliver high-quality digital experiences for clients.

Qualifications

• 7+ years hands-on experience with content platforms (AEM/OpenText/Contentful/Optimizely/Sitecore).
• At least 5 years of full lifecycle implementations using SDLC methodologies.
• Minimum 5 years leading teams.
• Minimum 3 years deploying or relaunching WCMS apps.
• High school diploma or GED required.
• English proficiency for cross-Canada/US/global interactions.

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale Digital Experience implementations across WCMS platforms.
• Develop conceptual and logical architectures with packaged software and cloud-native tech.
• Design and oversee architectures supporting business requirements.
• Provide deep WCMS platform knowledge and platform recommendations.
• Resolve integration issues between back-end systems.
• Optimize performance, scalability, and security of applications.
• Support project leadership with planning, risk identification, and mitigation.
• Lead estimation efforts for projects and contribute to sales pursuits.
• Mentor offshore or remote Agile development teams and perform code reviews.
• Define and implement development architecture leveraging CI/CD practices.

Skills

Adobe Experience Manager

OpenText

Contentful

Optimizely

Sitecore

Leadership

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

We Are:
Accenture Song accelerates growth and value for our clients through sustained customer relevance. Our capabilities span ideation to execution: growth, product and experience design; technology and experience platforms; creative, media and marketing strategy; and campaign, content and channel orchestration. With strong client relationships and deep industry expertise, we help our clients operate at the speed of life through the unlimited potential of imagination, technology and intelligence. Visit us at: www.accenture.com/song

We Are:
Accenture Song accelerates growth and value for our clients through sustained customer relevance. Our capabilities span ideation to execution: growth, product and experience design; technology and experience platforms; creative, media and marketing strategy; and campaign, content and channel orchestration. With strong client relationships and deep industry expertise, we help our clients operate at the speed of life through the unlimited potential of imagination, technology and intelligence. Visit us at: www.accenture.com/song
You Are:
The digital economy has caused a massive increase in the amount and importance of digital content. Digital content and the customer experiences it fuels are, together, a vital expression of a brand’s voice and purpose. We help leading brands create and deliver the right content for the right customer at the right time for immersive, relevant experiences. We offer an end-to-end approach to the content lifecycle and cut through the complexity for improved speed to market and relevance, at scale. Our unique tools and services organize, store and optimize content, including taxonomy, rights and asset management, analytics and quality assurance.
There will never be a typical day at Accenture Song, but that’s why people love it here. The opportunities to make a difference while working on exciting client initiatives are limitless in this ever-changing space. Here’s a snapshot of your responsibilities:

• Lead large scale Digital Experience implementations with one or many of the following: Adobe Experience Manager, OpenText, Contentful, Optimizely, Sitecore and other Web Content Management (WCM) applications
  
• Participate in the development of conceptual and logical architectures with packaged software and cloud native technologies
  
• Design, and provide oversight on application architectures that support client’s business requirements
  
• Provide deep knowledge expertise in WCMS, including understanding and advising clients on which platform will best serve their unique requirements
  
• Resolve integration and interface issues between various back-end systems
  
• Optimize application performance, scalability and security
  
• Assist Project Leadership with conducting project planning, risk identification and mitigation planning
  
• Provide strong leadership skills, including the ability to facilitate team and client meetings effectively and to deliver constructive feedback
  
• Independently lead the estimation effort for a project
  
• Provide support to the sales effort on new business development pursuits, assisting with RFP responses, architecture assessments and technical qualifications
  
• Showcase your content expertise by leading/educating others on the functional and technical capabilities of different platforms
  
• Lead an offshore or remote Agile based development team(s) and perform code reviews
  
• Defining/designing/implementing the development architecture leveraging CI/CD principles
  
• Travel Required
  

Here’s what you need:

• A minimum of 7 years of hands on experience with content platforms such as: Adobe Experience Manager, OpenText, Contentful, Optimizely, Sitecore
  
• A minimum of 5 years of full lifecycle implementation experience using various SDLC methodologies
  
• A minimum of 5 years experience leading teams
  
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in tactical deployment or re-launch of Web Content Management applications
  
• A minimum of a high school diploma or GED is required for this position
  
• English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with stakeholders across Canada, US and other countries across our Global footprint where English is the common language. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.
  

Bonus points if:

• Experience eliciting high-level business requirements and creating detailed functional specs as well as other documentation like requirement traceability matrixes, work-flow diagrams and use-cases
  
• Ability to lead functional discussions and scoping decisions based on best practices for implementing the WCM applications and proven knowledge out-of-the-box features and latest functions
  
• Experience in working closely with content authoring teams to setup and assemble content sites
  
• Experience working with interactive designers to fulfill UI/UX designs in parallel with Front End (UI) and Back End (AEM) developers to build solutions
  
• Ability to understand content migration needs and to define and execute content migration plans
  
• Experience with multi-lingual and multichannel implementations
  

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below. The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position. The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range

British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $99,450 to $209,900