Senior CMS Solution Architect / Technical Lead
Contract | Remote, Canada | Potential travel within Canada

Hourly rate: $80/h-$100/h

About the opportunity
Aequilibrium is assembling a senior technical team for a potential large-scale digital experience modernization initiative involving a multi-site, multi-brand public web ecosystem. The successful candidate will help define the technical architecture, guide the implementation team and ensure the solution is secure, scalable, maintainable and appropriate for a complex public-facing digital ecosystem.

What you'll do

Define the overall CMS/DXP solution architecture for a multi-site workplace.

Translate business, UX and content requirements into a scalable technical architecture.

Define content models, reusable components, templates and multi-site architecture.

Guide CMS configuration and implementation while minimizing unnecessary customization.

Develop the approach for migrating a large existing content estate from a legacy enterprise CMS.

Define integration patterns with identity, analytics, search and other enterprise systems.

Lead technical design reviews and establish development standards.

Guide full-stack developers and review implementation quality.

Establish security-by-design principles across the solution.

Collaborate with DevOps/SRE specialists on cloud architecture, environments and CI/CD.

Address performance, scalability, monitoring, logging and operational requirements.

Support technical documentation, knowledge transfer and production readiness.





What we're looking for
Strong candidates will have:

10+ years of software/solution architecture experience with substantial CMS/DXP experience.

Led at least 2 significant enterprise CMS implementations or re-platforming initiatives .

Experience designing multi-site / multi-brand CMS architectures .

Experience with modern headless or hybrid CMS architectures.

Strong cloud architecture experience.

Experience with CI/CD and modern software delivery practices.

Strong understanding of web security, privacy, RBAC, SSO/identity and observability.

Experience with large-scale automated and manual content migrations.

Experience working with UX, content and design-system teams rather than operating solely as a backend architect.

Strong client-facing communication and technical leadership skills.

Particularly valuable experience
We are especially interested in candidates with one or more of the following:

dotCMS implementation experience

Liferay migration experience

Government or Canadian public-sector digital transformation

Large-scale multi-site implementations

AWS-based managed CMS environments

Canadian data residency requirements

SOC 2 environments

Entra ID / enterprise identity integration

WCAG 2.2 AA public websites

Experience with enterprise platforms such as dotCMS, Liferay, Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore, Contentful, Drupal, Optimizely or comparable platforms is relevant, although direct dotCMS experience would be particularly valuable.

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📌 Fractional Senior CMS Solution Architect / Technical Lead (Manitoba)
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