Contentful Tech Lead: Enterprise React & AWS Architect

VML Enterprise Solutions; Faro, Lisboa, Porto; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

WPP Enterprise Solutions is seeking a Contentful Technical Lead to drive enterprise platform delivery and client-facing discovery for a major digital experience project. You will influence architecture, guide hands-on engineering, and balance CMS, frontend, and backend workstreams.

The role emphasizes content models, API design, and integration strategies within a modern composable stack, collaborating with global stakeholders and ensuring robust CI/CD, security, and observability practices.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with Contentful and headless CMS architectures.
• Strong React and TypeScript experience in production‑grade applications.
• Good practical knowledge of AWS, particularly cloud‑based services and integration layers.
• Strong understanding of API design, middleware and system integration patterns.
• Experience designing solutions where a headless CMS is part of a larger enterprise architecture, rather than a standalone platform.
• Ability to make sound architectural decisions about what belongs in the CMS, frontend, middle layer or backend services.
• Experience integrating CMS platforms with APIs, identity/profile services and other enterprise systems.
• Proven experience leading technical discovery, requirements analysis and solution design.
• Strong client‑facing communication skills and the ability to explain technical decisions and trade-offs to both technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience providing technical leadership while remaining hands-on when needed.
• Fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery, facilitating client-facing workshops and translating business requirements into technical decisions.
• Shape the overall implementation approach across Contentful, React, AWS services and enterprise systems.
• Define clear boundaries between CMS capabilities, frontend functionality, integration/middleware services and backend business logic.
• Decide where integrations should be implemented and define appropriate API and integration patterns.
• Review and evolve Contentful content models, composition rules and reusable content patterns.
• Shape the AWS-based integration and service layer connecting Contentful and the frontend with APIs, identity/profile services and other systems.
• Turn discovery outcomes into technical scope, architecture and an actionable implementation backlog.
• Lead engineers throughout delivery, providing hands‑on guidance, code reviews and support with complex technical decisions.
• Ensure strong engineering practices around security, performance, automated testing, CI/CD and observability.

Skills

Contentful

React

TypeScript

AWS

API design

Architectural decisions

Leadership

English fluency

Tools

Contentful

React

TypeScript

AWS

Job description

WPP Enterprise Solutions is seeking a Contentful Technical Lead to drive enterprise platform delivery and client-facing discovery for a major digital experience project. You will influence architecture, guide hands-on engineering, and balance CMS, frontend, and backend workstreams.

The role emphasizes content models, API design, and integration strategies within a modern composable stack, collaborating with global stakeholders and ensuring robust CI/CD, security, and observability practices.