Contentful Lead Developer
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Job Summary
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Overview About Business Unit: As part of the Digital Integration Services team, you ll be at the forefront of modernizing marketing and delivering ground-breaking solutions. From crafting data-driven, personalized experiences that customers truly value to turning marketing visions into reality - we empower brands to achieve their goals. Our team of 1,200 experts in strategy, analytics, creative, and digital experience uses innovative technology and data-driven insights to craft relevant, customer-centric strategies for the world s leading brands.
Role Summary We are seeking a Contentful CMS Technical Lead to spearhead our modern, headless content architecture. In this role, you will bridge the gap between business strategy and technical execution, designing highly scalable content models, building custom Contentful apps, and leading frontend engineering teams. You will ensure our digital platform remains fast, secure, and intuitive for both developers and non-technical content editors.
Why we are looking for you Analyzing user requirements. Ensures delivery of assigned coding tasks to follow the design. Ensure the code deliverable meets the coding standard. Ensures that the code meets the quality requirements. Works closely with the leads to ensure that project timelines and deliverables are met. Ability to move seamlessly across multiple projects to ensure priority deliverables are met.
What you will enjoy in this role: Enhances organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments. You will work on enterprise-scale digital experiences where structured content, headless delivery, API-first implementation, editorial governance, localization, CI/CD, and modern front-end engineering come together to support global clients. Contentful s enterprise positioning emphasizes API-first, cloud-native architecture, multi-channel content operations, localization/personalization, custom roles and permissions, SSO/SCIM, audit logs, and enterprise security/compliance capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Technical Core (Contentful Expertise) Advanced Content Modeling: Proven ability to architecture complex, reusable content schemas and relationships.
- API Proficiency: Deep hands-on experience with Contentful Delivery, Management, Preview, and GraphQL APIs.
- App Framework: Experience building custom UI extensions and apps using the Contentful App Framework.
- Environment Management: Mastery of space topologies, environment aliases, and migration CLI tools.
- Must have certification: Contentful Certified Professional.
- Architecture Frontend Integration Modern JavaScript: Expert knowledge of Node.js and frontend frameworks like Next.js.
- MACH Architecture: Strong understanding of Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, and Headless architectures.
- CI/CD Automation: Experience automating content migrations and code deployments via tools like GitHub Actions.
- Caching CDN: Deep understanding of Edge caching, webhooks, and optimizing API response payloads.
- Leadership Collaboration Engineering Mentorship: Track record of leading developer teams and establishing strict code review standards.
- Cross-Functional Communication: Ability to translate complex technical architectures into simple concepts for content authors.
- Agile Governance: Experience setting up custom workflow permissions, roles, and content release lifecycles.
Qualifications
- At least 8+ years of experience in Contentful CMS.
- 6+ years in web development, with at least 2+ years specifically leading enterprise Contentful implementations.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills with an emphasis on confidentiality, tact, and diplomacy.
- Familiarity with agile ceremonies (preferably Scrum).
- Minimum qualifications - 4-year Computer Science degree or comparable education.
Disclaimer: This job posting has been aggregated from external source. Role details, content, and availability are subject to change. Applicants are advised to confirm the latest information directly on the company website before applying.