Technical Lead with Contentful

The role

You will lead technical discovery and shape the implementation of a modern composable platform. This role involves technical leadership and hands-on engineering using Contentful, React, and AWS.

What you will do

• Lead technical discovery and facilitate client-facing workshops
• Translate business requirements into technical decisions
• Shape the implementation approach across Contentful, React, and AWS services
• Define boundaries between CMS capabilities, frontend, and backend services
• Decide on integration implementation and API patterns
• Review and evolve Contentful content models and patterns
• Shape the AWS-based integration and service layer
• Turn discovery outcomes into technical scope and an implementation backlog
• Lead engineers through hands-on guidance and code reviews
• Ensure engineering practices around security, performance, and CI/CD

Required qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with Contentful and headless CMS architectures
• Strong React and TypeScript experience in production-grade applications
• Good practical knowledge of AWS, particularly cloud-based services and integration layers
• Strong understanding of API design, middleware and system integration patterns
• Experience designing solutions where a headless CMS is part of a larger enterprise architecture
• Ability to make architectural decisions about CMS, frontend, middle layer or backend services
• Experience integrating CMS platforms with APIs, identity/profile services and other enterprise systems
• Proven experience leading technical discovery, requirements analysis and solution design
• Strong client-facing communication skills
• Experience providing technical leadership while remaining hands-on
• Fluency in English

Nice to have

• Experience with Contentful Personalisation or similar personalisation capabilities
• Experience with composable or MACH-style architectures
• Experience with server-side rendered React applications
• Experience with AWS infrastructure as code and automated environment provisioning
• Relevant Contentful or AWS certifications

Benefits

• Private medical care
• Professional development opportunities
• Training programmes
• Flexible working arrangements (where applicable)

Before you apply

• The selection process will be conducted in English
• Please send over your CV in English

About the company

WPP Enterprise Solutions designs, builds, and operates growth systems for competitive businesses. VML, part of WPP, supports WPP Enterprise Solutions by helping brands activate transformation through creativity and experience.