Senior Magnolia CMS / DXP Consultant, EU based

We are looking for an experienced Senior Magnolia CMS / DXP Consultant to support a large-scale enterprise migration from Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) to Magnolia CMS .

The role focuses on assessing the current CMS landscape, defining the target-state Digital Experience Platform (DXP), and identifying opportunities to improve content management, authoring processes, governance, workflows, and technical architecture.

The ideal candidate will combine hands-on Magnolia expertise, solution architecture experience, and strategic consulting skills to provide practical recommendations on what should be migrated as-is, optimized during migration, or considered for future modernization.

Details: Start: ASAP

Duration: Approximately 6 months

Language: English

Responsibilities:

• Provide expert guidance on Magnolia CMS capabilities, best practices, and enterprise implementation approaches.
• Assess existing content management, authoring, governance, localization, and Digital Asset Management (DAM) processes.
• Review the current AEM-based CMS landscape and identify opportunities for simplification, standardization, and automation.
• Define target-state content management and authoring solutions for global, multi-site, and multi-language environments.
• Evaluate content workflows, publishing processes, content modelling, and lifecycle management.
• Identify architectural improvements to enhance scalability, maintainability, flexibility, and operational efficiency.
• Review existing integrations, technical dependencies, and platform architecture to identify opportunities to reduce technical debt.
• Recommend which capabilities should be migrated as-is, optimized during migration, or modernized in future phases.
• Assess the benefits, risks, complexity, and estimated effort associated with proposed improvements.
• Evaluate the suitability of open-source CMS solutions and community editions for enterprise DXP requirements.
• Prepare strategic recommendations, target-state architecture proposals, and prioritized improvement roadmaps.
• Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders, providing expert advice throughout the assessment and planning phases.

Requirements:

• Several years of hands-on Magnolia CMS architecture and implementation experience.
• Strong background in CMS / DXP solution architecture within enterprise environments.
• Proven experience with large-scale CMS migration projects.
• Solid understanding of content management, authoring workflows, content governance, and content modelling.
• Experience designing solutions for multi-site and multi-language environments.
• Knowledge of CMS integrations, DAM, localization, publishing workflows, and platform governance.
• Ability to assess existing architectures and identify modernization and optimization opportunities.
• Experience evaluating technical trade-offs, implementation complexity, risks, and business value.
• Strong consulting, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to translate technical capabilities into practical business and operational recommendations.
• Good English communication skills.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), particularly AEM-to-Magnolia migrations.
• Experience defining enterprise DXP strategies and modernization roadmaps.
• Knowledge of open-source CMS platforms and community editions.
• Experience with headless CMS architectures, API-based integrations, and content delivery optimization.
• Background in global digital transformation or enterprise platform modernization programs.