Lead Developer, Contentful
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Lead Developer leading enterprise Sitecore-to-Contentful migrations for Valtech, an experience innovation company. Guiding engineering teams, AI-first practices, and scalable digital solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Take technical ownership of engineering delivery for an enterprise Sitecore-to-Contentful migration covering content and application migration
- Lead the development team, establish engineering standards, and ensure delivery of a scalable, maintainable Contentful-based solution
- Lead technical implementation across content, applications, and integrations
- Work with architects to shape migration options, Contentful implementation patterns, and technical decisions
- Guide migration and modernisation of 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 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 is desirable
- Experience with Next.js, Sitecore JSS, and composable architecture is desirable
- Experience using AI to accelerate complex migrations, legacy application modernisation, or engineering workflows is desirable
- Experience with multilingual, multisite, or enterprise content platforms is desirable
Benefits:
- Private health insurance
- Education program with training and certification
- Wellbeing program
- Free coffee, drinks, and snacks at work
- Company dinners
- Ski trips, carting, laser-tag, wine tasting, picnics, cooking classes, and other company events
- Competitive salary
- 24 days of vacation
- Annual company events with the whole team
- Challenging projects
- Honest, open feedback culture
- Reasonable accommodations during the interview process














