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 locations and define API patterns.
• Review and evolve Contentful content models and composition rules.
• Shape the AWS-based integration and service layer.
• Turn discovery outcomes into technical scope and an actionable implementation backlog.
• Lead engineers through hands-on guidance, code reviews, and technical support.
• Ensure engineering practices around security, performance, testing, CI/CD and observability.

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

• Opportunity to work with exciting brands.
• Prioritised career development and skill growth.

Before you apply

• Please send over your CV in English.
• The recruitment process leverages AI for secure, objective note-taking.

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.