Technical Architect - Digital Solutions

Job Title: Technical Architect - Digital Solutions

Experience: 10+ Years

About the Role

We are looking for a seasoned Technical Architect - Digital Solutions (Drupal / Wordpress / Other CMS) to lead the architecture and delivery of enterprise-scale digital platforms built on Drupal and modern CMS technologies. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone passionate about building scalable, secure, high-performance solutions while driving innovation through cloud technologies, DevOps, and AI-assisted software engineering.

The ideal candidate should be comfortable working directly with clients, leading technical teams, contributing to pre-sales activities, and defining engineering best practices. This role emphasizes technical leadership and architecture, with project coordination responsibilities as needed.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Architect enterprise-grade Drupal solutions, including multisite, multilingual, multi-domain, and headless implementations.
• Define scalable, secure, and high-performance application architectures and technical roadmaps.
• Establish engineering standards, coding best practices, architecture governance, and reusable frameworks.
• Lead architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical mentoring.

Drupal & Enterprise Solutions

• Lead large-scale Drupal implementations, migrations, upgrades, and platform modernization initiatives.
• Design robust content models, workflows, integrations, and enterprise CMS solutions.
• Architect integrations with CRM, ERP, Identity Management, Search, Marketing Automation, AI services, and other enterprise platforms.

Cloud, DevOps & Performance

• Design cloud-native Drupal deployments using AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code, and automated release processes.
• Optimize application performance through caching strategies, database tuning, CDN integration, monitoring, and scalability planning.
• Ensure security, accessibility, and operational excellence across all deployments.

AI & Innovation

• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development practices to improve engineering productivity and software quality.
• Evaluate and integrate AI technologies such as LLMs, RAG, intelligent search, personalization, and workflow automation into enterprise solutions.
• Promote responsible AI adoption, technical innovation, and continuous improvement across engineering teams.

Client Engagement & Pre-Sales

• Work directly with clients to understand business requirements and define technical solutions.
• Participate in solution design, technical presentations, estimations, proposals, and RFP responses.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor throughout project engagements.

Leadership

• Mentor developers and technical leads while fostering a culture of engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure successful project execution and technical quality.
• Contribute to building organizational capabilities, technical practices, and innovation initiatives.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of experience in Drupal/Wordpress and enterprise web application development.
• Strong expertise in Drupal architecture, custom development, Composer, Configuration Management, Symfony, REST APIs, GraphQL, and headless Drupal.
• Experience designing multisite, multilingual, and large-scale Drupal deployments.
• Strong knowledge of PHP, JavaScript, modern front-end frameworks, SQL databases, cloud platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, and CI/CD.
• Experience with performance optimization, caching, scalability, security, and DevOps best practices.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and enterprise AI integration patterns.
• Excellent analytical, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to independently lead technical discussions and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Drupal certification(s).
• Experience with Acquia, Pantheon, or Platform.sh.
• Cloud platform experience with certifications in AWS/Azure
• Exposure to Digital Experience Platforms (DXP), composable architectures, and enterprise integrations.
• Agile/Scrum experience and familiarity with AI platforms such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, or similar services.