Contentful Tech Lead — React/AWS Platform Architect

WPP Enterprise Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

WPP Enterprise Solutions seeks a Contentful Technical Lead to own enterprise platform delivery, lead client-facing workshops, and influence architecture across Contentful, React, and AWS services. You will translate discovery into a concrete backlog, guide engineers, and ensure robust practices in security, performance, testing, CI/CD and observability, while collaborating with UK teams.

This role requires strong leadership, deep CMS expertise, and excellent communication to align technical

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Contentful and headless CMS architectures.
• Proficient React and TypeScript in production-grade apps.
• Solid AWS knowledge and integration layer design.
• Expertise in API design and system integration patterns.
• Experience leading technical discovery and solution design.
• Fluent English and strong client-facing communication.

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 CMS

React

TypeScript

AWS

API design

Architecture leadership

Client-facing comms

English fluent

Tools

Contentful integration

REST APIs

CI/CD pipelines

AWS services

Job description

WPP Enterprise Solutions seeks a Contentful Technical Lead to own enterprise platform delivery, lead client-facing workshops, and influence architecture across Contentful, React, and AWS services. You will translate discovery into a concrete backlog, guide engineers, and ensure robust practices in security, performance, testing, CI/CD and observability, while collaborating with UK teams.

This role requires strong leadership, deep CMS expertise, and excellent communication to align technical