Sr. Technical Lead (WordPress)-IQ/0077

Iquest Management Consultants; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Iquest Management Consultants is seeking a senior WordPress architecture lead to design and deliver complex WordPress and PHP framework solutions. You will provide technical direction, plan projects, own deadlines, and mentor a team across frontend and backend when deploying scalable web applications.

Strong API integrations, code quality, and governance are essential in this role. The ideal candidate has 12–16 years building high-traffic sites, 7+ years leading teams, and a track record of

Qualifications

• 12–16 years of experience building complex, high-traffic websites with WordPress and custom PHP.
• 7+ years of experience leading and mentoring a software engineering team.
• Strong leadership, architecture, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect and design custom WordPress themes/plugins and PHP frameworks.
• Provide senior technical leadership in requirements gathering and project planning.
• Own architecture, scalability, quality, and on-time delivery of web solutions.
• Mentor team members and drive engineering best practices across the group.
• Plan development activities, assign tasks, and track milestones to closure.
• Lead AI-driven workflow adoption and integration strategies.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Communication

Learning agility

Team player

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor/PG/Engineering

Tools

WordPress

Git

JIRA

Job description

The candidate will be responsible for architecting and developing custom, complex WordPress-based solutions along with PHP framework-based solutions, while providing senior-level technical leadership on requirements gathering, web project planning, and general technical direction.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in finding/developing new technologies and methods to advance the companys web offerings:
• Own and design the architecture and scalability strategy of our websites and CMS.
• Be accountable for product quality, performance, and timeliness of product delivery.
• Define, review and enforce software development best practices and processes.
• Support and represent the company’s goals and objectives.
• Design and develop awesome new features.
• Own project deadlines, product launches & releases; test UI and resolve cross-browser/cross-device compatibility issues.
• Plan and estimate development activities, assign weekly development tasks & milestones for team members, and track them to closure.
• Mentor and upskill team members, and drive technical career growth within the team.

Technical Competency

• Deep expertise in creating and implementing custom themes, plugins, and Gutenberg blocks.
• Extensive experience connecting WordPress to third-party services using RESTful APIs and plugins.
• Strong front-end skills, including solid experience with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript libraries such as Bootstrap, jQuery, and a strong understanding of CSS.
• Strong command of code versioning tools – Git – and ticketing tools – JIRA.
• Proven ability to independently architect and deliver complex modules with little to no handholding.
• Experience setting coding standards, conducting code reviews, and driving engineering best practices across a team.

Functional Competency

• Any Graduate/Postgraduate/Any Engineering.
• 12–16 years of experience building complex, high-traffic websites with WordPress and custom PHP.
• At least 7 years’ experience leading and mentoring a software engineering team.
• Strong organizational, stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Flexibility, energy, and ability to work well with others in a cross-functional environment.
• Ability to learn and upskill in new technologies and drive adoption across the team.
• Being a team player who can deliver in a high-pressure, high-demand environment.

AI Expectations

• Drive Adoption: Lead the charge in bringing AI tools into our engineering workflows and setting team guidelines.
• Daily Workflow: Use tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot for architecture design, code reviews, scoping, and tech docs.
• Mentorship: Guide the team on how to use AI tools effectively, safely, and responsibly.
• Innovation: Evaluate and implement AI-driven features and third-party integrations into our projects.
• Efficiency: Help the team leverage AI to speed up development and improve engineering quality.