Enterprise WordPress Architect: Intranet & MS Integrations

Upwork; Kuwait City; On-site; KWD 34,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Upwork is seeking a Senior WordPress Engineer to deliver a secure, scalable employee intranet with custom Gutenberg blocks, enterprise search, multilingual and RTL support, and deep integrations across Microsoft Entra ID, Graph, SharePoint, Power BI, HR systems, and a corporate Service Desk.

The role focuses on hands-on development, performance, security, testing, and technical handover, avoiding off-the-shelf themes and plugins to meet enterprise requirements.

Qualifications

• Extensive professional PHP development experience building custom WordPress plugins and themes for enterprise environments.
• Expert knowledge of WordPress core APIs: custom post types, taxonomies, hooks, cron, transients, roles, capabilities, REST APIs, WP-CLI.
• Strong experience building custom Gutenberg blocks with React, dynamic rendering, block patterns, and theme.json.
• Experience implementing OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect SSO, preferably with Microsoft Entra ID.

Responsibilities

• Implement OpenID Connect SSO with Microsoft Entra ID and MFA, user provisioning and role mapping.
• Build a library of custom React-based Gutenberg blocks for homepage and portals.
• Develop multilingual, RTL-ready frontend components across the intranet.
• Create a notifications plugin with database table, REST endpoints, unread indicators and SMTP notifications.

Skills

WordPress

PHP

React

OAuth/OpenID

Azure

ElasticSearch

Security

Tools

ACF Pro

Polylang

Bedrock

WP-CLI

Job description

Upwork is seeking a Senior WordPress Engineer to deliver a secure, scalable employee intranet with custom Gutenberg blocks, enterprise search, multilingual and RTL support, and deep integrations across Microsoft Entra ID, Graph, SharePoint, Power BI, HR systems, and a corporate Service Desk.

The role focuses on hands-on development, performance, security, testing, and technical handover, avoiding off-the-shelf themes and plugins to meet enterprise requirements.