Senior CMS Solution Architect / Technical Lead

Aequilibrium; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Aequilibrium is seeking a Senior CMS Solution Architect / Technical Lead to help modernize a Canada-based, multi-site digital experience across several brands. The role is remote with a multi-year contract and requires deep CMS/DXP expertise and hands-on leadership.

You will define the overall CMS architecture, guide migrations from legacy systems, collaborate with UX and design teams, and set standards for security, performance and deployment across cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software/solution architecture with CMS/DXP focus.
• Led multiple enterprise CMS implementations or re-platforms.
• Experience designing multi-site / multi-brand CMS architectures.
• Strong cloud, CI/CD and security expertise.
• Experience collaborating with UX and content teams.

Responsibilities

• Define the CMS/DXP solution architecture for a multi-site environment.
• Translate requirements into scalable technical designs.
• Define content models, components, templates, and multi-site architecture.
• Guide CMS configuration, minimize customizations.
• Plan migration of large content estates from legacy CMS.
• Define integration patterns with identity, analytics, search and other systems.
• Lead technical design reviews and set development standards.
• Guide full-stack developers and ensure code quality.
• Establish security-by-design across the solution.
• Collaborate with DevOps on cloud, CI/CD, environments.
• Address performance, scalability, monitoring, logging, ops.
• Support documentation and production readiness.

Skills

CMS/DXP architecture

Enterprise CMS

Cloud architecture

CI/CD

Security-by-design

Technical leadership

Tools

dotCMS

Liferay

Adobe Experience Manager

Sitecore

Contentful

Drupal

Optimizely

Job description

Contract | Remote, Canada | Potential travel within Canada

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.

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.

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

• 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

• 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.