Lead Developer, Contentful

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🇵🇹 Portugal – Remote

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🖥 Software Engineer

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Valtech

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1997

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

☁️ SaaS

Consulting • Marketing • SaaS

Valtech is a global digital agency focusing on experience innovation. They strive to transform businesses through a combination of technology, marketing, and data strategies. Valtech helps companies elevate their digital presence and drive commerce strategies, enhance enterprise digital transformations, and unlock marketing and performance potential. They also utilize data and AI to help organizations harness the power of information. With offices around the world, Valtech partners with businesses to shape their digital futures, offering a range of services and insights designed to enhance customer experiences.

📋 Description

• Take technical ownership of the engineering delivery of an enterprise Sitecore-to-Contentful migration across content and applications • Lead the development team and establish engineering standards • Work with architects to shape migration options, Contentful implementation patterns and technical decisions • Guide migration and modernisation of existing applications, including React frontends and supporting services • Define content modelling, transformation, migration automation and validation approaches • Coordinate engineering activities, resolve complex technical challenges and manage dependencies and delivery risks • Remain hands-on for complex implementation, technical spikes and critical problem-solving • Champion AI-first engineering and establish spec-driven development practices • Apply AI to Sitecore analysis, content mapping, migration automation, code modernisation and testing • Guide developers in using AI coding assistants and automated engineering workflows • Establish review, security and quality practices for AI-generated code and migration outputs • Drive experimentation, knowledge sharing and measurable productivity improvements through AI adoption • Own engineering quality, implementation consistency and technical delivery outcomes • Establish standards for code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, migration validation and release readiness • Lead technical planning for migration, cutover, rollback and post-migration support • Provide technical direction, mentoring and coaching to developers • Act as a trusted technical contact for client stakeholders, architects and delivery teams • Communicate technical risks, trade-offs and recommendations aligned with business objectives

🎯 Requirements

• Significant engineering experience, including technical leadership of complex digital platform deliveries • Proven experience with enterprise CMS migrations, replatforming or major headless CMS implementations • Strong practical knowledge of Contentful, Sitecore and associated migration and integration challenges • Strong understanding of React, TypeScript, API-driven architectures and application modernisation • Experience leading engineering teams, making technical decisions and assuring delivery quality • Practical experience with AI-assisted software development and the ability to drive adoption of AI-native, spec-driven engineering practices • Strong knowledge of automated testing, CI/CD, release processes and technical risk management • Strong stakeholder communication, consultancy and technical leadership skills • Previous technical leadership of a Sitecore-to-Contentful migration (desirable) • Experience with Next.js, Sitecore JSS and composable architecture (desirable) • Experience using AI to accelerate complex migrations, legacy application modernisation or engineering workflows (desirable) • Experience with multilingual, multisite or enterprise content platforms (desirable)

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexibility, with remote and hybrid work options (country-dependent) • Career advancement, with international mobility and professional development programs • Learning and development, with access to cutting-edge tools, training, and industry experts • Competitive compensation package

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