Fractional Senior CMS Solution Architect / Technical Lead

Gofractional; Canada; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

Aequilibrium is assembling a senior CMS Solution Architect / Technical Lead for a potential large-scale digital experience modernization initiative in Canada. The role is contract and remote with potential travel within Canada, paying an hourly rate of CAD 80–100.

The successful candidate will define the technical architecture, guide the implementation team and ensure the solution is secure, scalable, maintainable and suitable for a complex public-facing ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software/solution architecture with CMS/DXP focus.
• Led at least 2 enterprise CMS implementations or re-platforming projects.
• Experience designing multi-site, multi-brand CMS architectures.
• Experience with headless or hybrid CMS approaches.
• Strong cloud architecture experience.

Responsibilities

• Define overall CMS/DXP solution architecture for multi-site env.
• Translate business and content requirements into scalable architecture.
• Define content models, reusable components and templates.
• Guide CMS configuration and minimize customization.
• Plan migration of large content estates from legacy 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 on cloud architecture, environments and CI/CD.
• Address performance, scalability, monitoring and operational requirements.
• Support technical documentation, knowledge transfer and production readiness.

Skills

CMS Architecture

CMS Implementations

Multi-site Architecture

Headless/Hybrid CMS

Cloud Architecture

CI/CD

Web Security & RBAC

Content Migrations

UX Collaboration

Leadership/Client-facing

Tools

dotCMS

Liferay

Adobe Experience Manager

Sitecore

Contentful

Drupal

Optimizely

Job description

Senior CMS Solution Architect / Technical Lead

Contract | Remote, Canada | Potential travel within Canada

Hourly rate: $80/h-$100/h

About the opportunity

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. 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.

What you'll do

• 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.

What we're looking for

Strong candidates will have:

• 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.

Particularly valuable experience

We are especially interested in candidates with one or more of the following:

• 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.