Technical Architect-CMS and Digital Experience

SynapOne; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

SynapOne is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to provide end-to-end technical leadership on a large-scale CMS/DXP program in Gurgaon. You will own architecture quality, estimate efforts, and drive solution roadmaps while safeguarding security, performance, accessibility, and observability across releases.

The role requires hands-on architecture leadership across frontend and backend, cloud & DevOps, and collaboration with product owners and delivery teams on multi-year engagements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with architecture experience.
• Proven CMS/DXP program delivery on large enterprise accounts.
• Ownership of technical quality, estimation, and stakeholder communication.
• Hands-on architecture across frontend and backend teams.
• Strong client-facing consulting and leadership across distributed teams.
• Bachelor's/Master's in CS or IT.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end architecture for enterprise web, mobile, and CMS-driven apps.
• Lead CMS migrations and modernization programs.
• Own CI/CD, IaC, and cloud-native patterns.
• Drive solution roadmaps and pre-sales support.
• Mentor teams and align with product owners and clients.

Skills

Headless CMS

Microservices

API-first design

React / Angular / Next.js

TypeScript

Java / Spring Boot

Cloud architecture

DevOps / CI/CD

Kubernetes

Security best practices

Observability

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science / IT

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure / AWS / GCP

AEM / Sitecore / Drupal

Job description

Role:- Technical Architect/Senior Technical Architect

Location:- Gurgaon

Exp:- 10+ years

Senior Technical Architect

CMS & Digital Experience Platforms

Role Context

We are looking for a Senior Technical Architect to provide technical leadership on an established, large-scale enterprise digital program (a running account with multi-year continuity). This is a hands‑on‑enough architecture leadership role: you will own the technical quality of the platform end to end, drive estimation and solutioning, and act as the guardian of non‑functional requirements - security, performance, accessibility, and analytics/observability - across every release.

The right person is equally comfortable in an architecture review, an estimation workshop, and a client‑facing solution conversation, and can hold the technical line on a mature codebase while continuously modernizing it. The role is not tied to a single account - you will be expected to bring architecture leadership across engagements as needs evolve.

What You'll Own

Architecture & Solution Design

• Define and evolve the end‑to‑end architecture for enterprise web, mobile, and CMS‑driven applications on the account.
• Design composable, headless, API‑first, and microservices‑based solutions that are scalable, secure, and high‑performing.
• Establish and maintain architecture standards, design principles, and governance frameworks.
• Lead technical discovery, solution roadmaps, and modernization planning.

CMS & Digital Experience Platforms

• Architect enterprise CMS/DXP solutions, including headless and hybrid patterns.
• Define content modeling, personalization, localization, workflow, and publishing strategies.
• Lead CMS migrations, upgrades, and modernization programs.
• Integrate the CMS with CRM, CDP, DAM, marketing automation, and analytics platforms.

Technical Leadership & Quality

• Provide technical leadership across front‑end and back‑end engineering teams.
• Own coding standards, architecture reviews, performance tuning, and secure‑by‑design practices.
• Define reusable components, shared platform services, and API contracts.

Cloud & DevOps

• Architect cloud‑native solutions and own CI/CD, IaC, containerization, and orchestration.
• Define observability, monitoring, logging, and DR frameworks.

Estimation & Stakeholder Management

• Lead effort estimation, solution costing, and pre‑sales / proposal support for the account.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Partner with product owners, delivery managers, and client stakeholders; mentor the team.

Must‑Have (Required):

Experience & Leadership

• 10+ years in software engineering, with 4‑5+ years as a Technical / Solution Architect.
• Proven track record delivering and sustaining large‑scale CMS/DXP programs, ideally on an established / running enterprise account.
• Demonstrated ownership of technical quality, estimation, and stakeholder communication.

CMS / DXP

• Deep, hands‑on - architecture experience with at least one enterprise CMS/DXP - e.g., Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Sitecore, Optimizely, Contentful, or Drupal.
• Practical experience with headless / hybrid / composable CMS patterns, content modeling, personalization, and multi‑locale publishing.
• Experience leading a CMS migration or modernization program.

Front‑End Architecture

• Deep hands‑on experience with at least one modern JS framework (React, Angular, Vue, or Next.js) and strong command of TypeScript / ES6+.
• Component / design‑system thinking and front‑end performance ownership. (Breadth across multiple frameworks is a plus, not a requirement.)

Back‑End / Services Architecture

• Depth in at least one server‑side stack (.NET Core, Java/Spring Boot, Node.js, or Python).
• Strong REST and/or GraphQL API design.

Distributed & Integration Architecture

• API‑first and microservices design.
• Event‑driven architecture, pub/sub, and messaging/streaming (e.g., Kafka, Azure Service Bus, or equivalent); reactive patterns.

Cloud & DevOps

• Cloud‑native architecture on at least one major cloud (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and containerization/orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes).

Data

• Polyglot persistence - comfortable with at least one relational and one NoSQL store; able to make sound data‑modeling and caching decisions.

Non‑Functional Requirements (core to this role)

• Demonstrable ownership of security (secure‑by‑design, OWASP, IAM concepts), performance & scalability, accessibility (WCAG), and analytics/observability.

Good‑to‑Have (Advantageous)

• Breadth across multiple front‑end frameworks and/or back‑end languages.
• Additional CMS platforms beyond the primary (e.g., AEM and Sitecore/Optimizely/Drupal).
• Deep integration‑platform experience: MuleSoft, Boomi, API Gateway products, enterprise service bus.
• gRPC; advanced GraphQL federation.
• Deep IAM / auth architecture: OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, Zero Trust.
• Experience applying GenAI / LLMs to content generation or engineering delivery (with governance / human‑in‑the‑loop).
• Second cloud, or multi‑cloud / hybrid experience.
• Broader datastore experience (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cosmos DB, Redis).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of performance, scalability, and security best practices.
• Client‑facing consulting experience and the ability to lead geographically distributed teams.

Preferred Certifications (any of the following are a plus)

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert / AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional).
• AEM, Sitecore, or equivalent CMS certification.
• CKA / Kubernetes certification.
• Scrum / Agile certifications.

Soft Skills

• Strong communication and stakeholder management.
• Excellent problem‑solving and decision‑making.
• Ability to influence architecture direction across teams.
• Strong mentoring and leadership.

Key Deliverables

• Enterprise architecture blueprints and solution design documents.
• Technical roadmaps and CMS architecture strategy.
• Integration and cloud architecture frameworks.
• Security & governance standards.
• Estimation models and performance‑optimization recommendations.