The Content Management System (CMS) Technical Lead owns the technical architecture and migration strategy for moving the credit union (CU) public website from the current Central1 Forge/OpenText environment to the selected target CMS.
You have deep enterprise CMS experience and, ideally, direct OpenText migration experience. You are comfortable assessing an existing implementation, identifying dependencies and integrations, designing the target architecture, and leading the migration across CMS, APIs, infrastructure, security, and content. You are technology-agnostic enough to advise across platforms such as AEM, Sitecore, Kentico, Ingeniux, Umbraco, WordPress, Drupal/Acquia, or Sanity.
Key responsibilities- Lead technical discovery of the existing Forge/OpenText website environment.
- Inventory CMS components, templates, content types, integrations, APIs and dependencies.
- Identify functionality currently coupled to Forge/OpenText that must be rebuilt, replaced or decoupled.
- Assess potential target CMS platforms and help determine fit based on architecture, security, customization, integration, operating model and scalability.
- Define target-state architecture and migration approach.
- Design the CMS content model, component architecture and integration patterns.
- Define migration strategy for content, media, metadata, redirects and structured data.
- Lead integrations with systems such as:
- digital banking;
- account opening;
- CRM;
- product systems;
- analytics/tag management;
- search;
- branch/ATM location services;
- calculators;
- marketing automation;
- personalization platforms;
- authentication or SSO where applicable.
- Define API and middleware requirements.
- Address security, privacy, hosting, environments, deployment and access-control requirements.
- Work with CU architecture/security teams on technical governance.
- Create estimates and implementation plans.
- Provide technical leadership to front-end, back-end and DevOps resources.
- Review code and architecture for quality and maintainability.
- Support cutover, data/content migration, launch and post-launch stabilization.
- Contribute reusable migration accelerators and technical playbooks for AEQ’s broader Forge offering.
- Experience with Central1 Forge Digital Banking Experience, and particularly their public website solution.
- Lead backend engineering for public websites for financial institutions (credit unions, in particular).
- 10+ years in CMS architecture, web engineering, or solution architecture.
- Significant experience with enterprise CMS migrations.
- OpenText TeamSite / Web Experience Management / related OpenText CMS experience highly desirable.
- Strong experience with at least one modern enterprise CMS platform.
- Experience with headless/hybrid CMS architecture.
- Strong API/integration architecture experience.
- Understanding of Azure/AWS/cloud infrastructure and CI/CD.
- Strong security and identity fundamentals.
- Experience in banking, credit unions, or regulated industries preferred.
- Comfortable leading technical workshops with architects, CIO/CTO teams, and vendors.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of experience in CMS architecture, web engineering, or solution architecture
- Significant experience with enterprise CMS migrations
- Strong experience with at least one modern enterprise CMS platform
- Experience with headless or hybrid CMS architecture
- Strong API and integration architecture experience
- Understanding of Azure or AWS cloud infrastructure and CI/CD
- Strong security and identity fundamentals
- Experience with Central1 Forge Digital Banking Experience and its public website solution
- OpenText TeamSite, Web Experience Management, or related OpenText CMS experience
- Experience leading backend engineering for public websites, particularly for financial institutions or credit unions
- Experience in banking, credit unions, or regulated industries
- Experience leading technical workshops with architects, CIO or CTO teams, and vendors
What We Do
Aequilibrium is an award-winning IT consulting company, headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. Considered one of the top digital agencies in Canada, focused on digital transformation and innovation, with capabilities to embrace the future of connection with XR technologies. We enrich people’s lives by crafting remarkable experiences and helping businesses thrive in a digital world. Winner of multiple VancouverUX awards for digital product design, Aequilibrium provides consulting (cloud, enterprise architecture, digital and product strategy) and implementation services (UI/UX design, full-stack development, DevOps, and QA) to help progressive companies with strategy, experience, and technology to be more resilient, differentiate, and thrive. Aequilibrium acts as a trusted advisor to help clients accelerate speed to market and reduce the risk with the delivery of complex enterprise projects, involving omnichannel experiences for web, mobile, and XR. We are remote-first with a focus on high-quality delivery by our employees and we welcome clients and applications from around the world. Be a part of our story! Explore our service offerings: https://aequilibrium.com/services/ View and apply for open positions: aequilibrium.com/jobs
