Sitecore Architect

Key Responsibilities

Sitecore & Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain Sitecore application components, templates, content models, renderings, and configurations using C# and .NET.

Headless Architecture: Work with Sitecore Headless/JSS and Headless SXA to ensure backend configurations correctly dictate presentation layers in React/Next.js applications.

API & GraphQL Integration: Build, optimize, and integrate REST and GraphQL APIs, ensuring efficient data fetching and filtering across Sitecore Experience Edge and Headless applications.

Deployment & CI/CD Pipelines: Manage Sitecore serialization (Sitecore CLI) and manage automated build and release pipelines using Azure DevOps for seamless Sitecore and Vercel deployments.

Production Support & Optimization: Handle BAU enhancements, defect fixes, performance tuning, and troubleshooting complex caching issues or bottlenecks in enterprise setups.

Agile Collaboration: Partner closely with frontend developers, QA engineers, and cross-functional teams using Git and Agile methodologies.

Mandatory Skills

Core Experience: 7+ Years of hands-on Sitecore and C#/.NET development experience in enterprise environments.

Headless Ecosystem: Practical experience with Sitecore Headless/JSS, Headless SXA, and Sitecore XM Cloud.

GraphQL & APIs: Strong proficiency in writing, filtering, and optimizing GraphQL queries within the Sitecore ecosystem, alongside REST API development and JSON handling.

Hosting & Delivery: Solid understanding of deployments to Vercel and interactions between Sitecore Experience Edge (XM Cloud) and Next.js frontends.

DevOps & CI/CD: Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps (Repos, Pipelines, Artifacts), Git version control, and Sitecore CLI/serialization workflows.

Security & Auth: Practical knowledge of authentication concepts, security roles, and access management within Sitecore.

Performance & Support: Proven ability to debug, trace, and resolve complex caching, rendering, and performance issues in high-traffic applications.

Certification (Advantage): Sitecore 10 .NET Developer Certification is a strong plus.

Team/Client Management : Candidate should have relevant experience in handling multiple stakeholders along with a sizeable team.