Senior Tech Lead – German-speaking

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Horizontal Digital

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2003

☁️ SaaS

Digital Transformation • Consulting • SaaS

Horizontal Digital is an experience-forward consultancy that focuses on placing people at the center of their solutions. They specialize in creating meaningful, end-to-end digital experiences through strategy, creativity, and technology. Their services include CX strategy and design, sales, service, CRM, commerce, customer data management, digital experience management, infrastructure, integrations, governance, analytics, AI, and marketing automation. Additionally, Horizontal Digital offers a Marketing Cloud Master Class and has experience in enhancing digital customer journeys for brands like Shure. The company operates globally with offices in the US, India, UK, UAE, and Malaysia.

📋 Description

• Lead end-to-end technical architecture and delivery of Sitecore-based digital experience platforms (XM Cloud, SitecoreAI, XP, XM) • Define and own technical standards, code quality practices, and architectural patterns across project teams • Conduct solution design workshops and translate business requirements into scalable, maintainable technical blueprints • Oversee integrations with third-party platforms including CRMs, CDPs, DAMs, search engines, and marketing automation tools • Perform and guide technical code reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices and Sitecore conventions • Provide high-level and detailed technical solution estimates. • Review and consult with HZTL stakeholders on SOWs. • Review Briefs and add questions, technical requirements. • Refine technical requirements. • Responsible for delivery of all technical documentation that is required during discovery. • Contribute to pre-sales and estimation activities, providing technically accurate and commercially grounded effort estimates • Identify and flag technical risks early — including gaps in client-provided inputs that may impact delivery timelines • Partner with Project Managers and Solution Architects to ensure estimates remain aligned through proposal, SOW, and discovery phases • Drive re-estimation processes when scope or assumptions materially change, with clear stakeholder communication • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Sitecore developers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning • Collaborate with cross-functional teams — UX, strategy, data, and QA — to ensure • Technical decisions support broader project goals • Act as the primary technical point of contact for clients, presenting solutions clearly and building trust through expertise • Facilitate knowledge transfer and ensure delivery decisions are well-documented and accessible to the wider team • Accountable for technical solution planning: • Lead and define technology approach and tool-set • Facilitate environment setup and configuration efforts in coordination with other disciplines • Brain storming and presentation of ideas and possible solutions - Innovations • Sitecore AI roadmap • Facilitate communication with Delivery Lead and Program Manager • Responsible for delivery of all technical documentation that is required during planning • Identifying risks and/or important milestones • Involvement with Delivery Lead, Dev Director and Client Partner on Strategic Account & Delivery Direction

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on Sitecore development experience across Sitecore AI, XM Cloud, XP, and/or XM • 3-5 years of experience leading design and implementation of digital technology solutions using Agile/Scrum methodologies. • Strong proficiency in Sitecore development patterns: JSS, headless/SXA, serialization (Unicorn / SCS), and multisite configurations • Experience with Sitecore CDP, Personalize, Search, Content Hub, Send, or other Sitecore composable DXP products • Solid understanding of Sitecore licensing, deployment architecture, and cloud hosting (Azure / AWS) • Familiarity with Vercel, Netlify, Next.js, and React in the context of Sitecore headless delivery • Demonstrated experience integrating AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar) into a professional development workflow • Understanding of LLM capabilities and limitations as applied to code generation, documentation, and test coverage • Ability to design structured, AI-readable inputs (design tokens, content schemas, component specs) that enable automation • Experience with prompt engineering or building lightweight AI agents or automation pipelines is a strong plus • .NET / C# — solid backend development fundamentals • JavaScript / TypeScript, React or Next.js for headless front-end delivery • RESTful and GraphQL API design and integration • CI/CD pipeline setup and management (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) • Performance optimisation, accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1), and SEO best practices • Agile / Scrum delivery experience in cross-functional teams

🏖️ Benefits

• 22 days holiday • 2 floating holiday days • 2 volunteering days • Defined contribution pension scheme • Flexibility + remote working