Contentful Architect

Role & responsibilities

• Experience in complete project life cycle activities on development and maintenance projects.
• To support the investigation and implementation of other improvements and developments, identified by the wider business, to enhance the performance of our digital platforms.
• Work alongside software developers and architects, UX / UI visual designers, and product developers
• Understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and approaches
• Experience in Agile development practices
• Ability to get things done without being micromanaged
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Require minimal supervision and provide oversight for assigned projects
• Prepare proposals and time estimates for future work
• Schedules work to meet completion dates and technical specifications
• Proven ability to be effective and adaptable in response to frequent change and ambiguity

Preferred candidate profile

• 10+ years building sites using: CMS, Java, J2EE, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, or Vue
• 8+ years' experience maintaining and administering CMS
• 3+ years' experience with creating responsive websites in Contentful
• Designing and developing infrastructure for modern contentful based web pages
• Design and create content models that define the structure and relationships of content types, such as articles, products, images, and videos.
• In-depth knowledge of Contentful is crucial. This includes understanding content modeling, using Contentful APIs (RESTful or GraphQL), managing content types, and working with entries and assets within the Contentful CMS.
• Implementing according to designs visuals for components and individual pages
• Experience in integrating 3rd party services (translation) to contentful
• Migrate WP-based content to contentful by mapping it to the contentful data model and building necessary tools to automate the task
• Advanced React JS front end skills, nodejs, typescript, nextjs/gatsby
• Static HTML and SSR experience,
• Knowledge about visualizing contentful data for the web,
• Setting up the infrastructure to deliver nextjs generated web pages to end-users and for editor preview including CI pipeline and CDN
• Extensive experience developing complex web applications with React, Hooks, and TypeScript
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers