CMS Architect

at  Thrillworks Inc

For 22 years, Thrillworks has built lasting relationships with some of the world’s most respected organizations—discovering and realizing the full potential of human-centric, technology-driven products, from web and mobile apps to microservices and websites.
Our approach emphasizes cross-disciplinary collaboration and obsessive, value-based prioritization, designed to expose and exploit only the most valuable digital opportunities.
We turn ideas into experiences and experiences into marketable products that provide customer value and business impact.
As a CMS Architect you will be reporting directly to the Technical Director, you will work as part of a cross-functional team to help to lead the development of our headless CMS service offering. You will work with designers and front-end engineers to develop the CMS architectures that integrate with, & power our modern stack front ends. You have a technical background and experience with headless CMS technology providers such as Contentful, Agility or similar with significant content modeling experience.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Work with Clients, Engineering and Creative to ensure content architecture meets project objectives.
• Design reusable and scalable content models that meet content strategy, author experience, and development needs.
• Build CMS add-ons and extensions to improve authoring experience.
• Work with front-end Engineers to map content types to components.
• Work with Designers to map content types to design system.
• Work with clients to understand goals to design the optimal authoring experience in CMS.
• Collaborate with our technology partners to identify the best technology integrations (e.g., translation, search & personalization).

WHAT DO YOU NEED FOR THIS ROLE?

• Experience designing content models in headless CMS (e.g., Contentful, Agility)
• Experience with Node.js and writing npm scripts.
• Understanding of development fundamentals and the software development lifecycle.
• Understanding of architecture and software design patterns is an asset.
• Excellent writing, diagramming, and communication skills
• Experience with lean/agile methodologies.
• Bonus Points: Experience with React frameworks like Gatsby/NextJS(a.k.aJamstack).