Role summary
The Canadian-based Content Management System (CMS) Technical Lead owns the technical architecture and migration strategy for moving the credit union (CU) public website from the current Central1 Forge/OpenText workplace to the selected target CMS.

You have deep enterprise CMS experience and, ideally, direct OpenText migration experience. You are comfortable assessing an existing implementation, identifying dependencies and integrations, designing the target architecture, and leading the migration across CMS, APIs, infrastructure, security, and content. You are technology-agnostic enough to advise across platforms such as AEM, Sitecore, Kentico, Ingeniux, Umbraco, WordPress, Drupal/Acquia, or Sanity.

Key responsibilities

Lead technical discovery of the existing Forge/OpenText website environment

Inventory CMS components, templates, content types, integrations, APIs and dependencies

Identify functionality currently coupled to Forge/OpenText that must be rebuilt, replaced or decoupled

Assess potential target CMS platforms and help determine fit based on architecture, security, customization, integration, operating model and scalability

Define target-state architecture and migration approach

Design the CMS content model, component architecture and integration patterns

Define migration strategy for content, media, metadata, redirects and structured data

Lead integrations with systems such as:

digital banking;

account opening;

CRM;

product systems;

analytics/tag management;

search;

branch/ATM location services;

calculators;

marketing automation;

personalization platforms;





authentication or SSO where applicable

Define API and middleware requirements

Address security, privacy, hosting, environments, deployment and access-control requirements

Work with CU architecture/security teams on technical governance

Create estimates and implementation plans

Provide technical leadership to front-end, back-end and DevOps resources

Review code and architecture for quality and maintainability

Support cutover, data/content migration, launch and post-launch stabilization

Contribute reusable migration accelerators and technical playbooks for AEQ’s broader Forge offering

Ideal background

Experience with Central1 Forge Digital Banking Experience, and particularly their public website solution

Lead backend engineering for public websites for financial institutions (credit unions, in particular)

10+ years in CMS architecture, web engineering, or solution architecture

Significant experience with enterprise CMS migrations

OpenText TeamSite / Web Experience Management / related OpenText CMS experience highly desirable

Strong experience with at least one modern enterprise CMS platform

Experience with headless/hybrid CMS architecture

Strong API/integration architecture experience

Understanding of Azure/AWS/cloud infrastructure and CI/CD

Strong security and identity fundamentals

Experience in banking, credit unions, or regulated industries preferred

Comfortable leading technical workshops with architects, CIO/CTO teams, and vendors

Compensation
Compensation: $80/h-$100/h depending on skill set and expertise.

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📌 CMS / Technical Lead — Forge & OpenText Migration (credit unions) (British Columbia)
🏢 Aequilibrium
📍 British Columbia