Remote Contract: Senior CMS & DXP Architect Lead

Gofractional; Canada; Hybrid; 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

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.