Technical Architect-CMS and Digital Experience

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.