Technical Architect

Job Description

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do

• Take technical ownership of projects while remaining actively involved in hands-on development.
• Design, architect, develop, debug, and maintain complex enterprise websites and custom applications built on Drupal or WordPress.
• Write production-quality PHP code and contribute directly to complex technical implementations across Drupal or WordPress platforms.
• Define application architecture, technical standards, development patterns, and best practices.
• Make architectural decisions around custom development, plugins, APIs, integrations, databases, caching, security, and infrastructure.
• Translate business and client requirements into practical, scalable, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.
• Act as a technical point of contact for clients and lead technical discovery, solution discussions, architecture reviews, and technical presentations.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to developers and delivery teams.
• Conduct code reviews and provide feedback on architecture, coding standards, security, performance, and maintainability.
• Work closely with Project Managers on planning, backlog refinement, prioritization, estimation, and technical decisions.
• Help scope and estimate technical work for new projects and complex development initiatives.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and technical debt early and work with the team to address them.
• Troubleshoot complex application, integration, performance, infrastructure, and production issues.
• Support deployments, releases, production troubleshooting, and technical incident resolution.
• Mentor developers and help teams improve their technical skills and development practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve development processes, tooling, automation, and engineering efficiency.
• Contribute to technical discovery, proposals, solutioning, and business development activities when needed.
• Stay current with Drupal or WordPress, PHP, cloud platforms, DevOps practices, and modern web development technologies.

What We’re Looking For

• Have professional experience in web development, with strong hands-on experience designing, developing, debugging, and architecting complex Drupal or WordPress solutions.
• Proven experience working as a Technical Lead, Technical Architect, Lead Developer, or senior engineering leader in a professional services or agency environment.
• Strong experience designing and delivering medium to large-scale web applications using enterprise open-source content management systems.
• Strong hands-on PHP development experience and a solid understanding of modern web development practices.
• Deep understanding of Drupal or WordPress architectures, including custom themes and modules/plugins, Gutenberg/block development, Drush/WP-CLI, REST APIs, custom content types/post types, caching, database optimization, security, and third-party integrations.
• Strong experience writing and maintaining production-quality PHP code for open-source CMS platforms.
• Experience with Git, Composer, WP-CLI, NPM, and modern development workflows.
• Experience with local development environments such as DDEV, Lando, Docker, or similar platforms.
• Experience working with managed hosting and cloud platforms such as Pantheon, WP Engine, Acquia, or similar platforms.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, automated deployments, and release management.
• Strong understanding of web architecture, APIs, databases, caching, hosting, CDN, and performance optimization.
• Experience with one or more areas such as e-commerce, migrations, multisite, integrations, performance optimization, security, or DevOps.
• Ability to scope and estimate technical work and work within project timelines and budgets.
• Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and balance technical quality, scope, timelines, maintainability, and project budgets.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable working directly with clients and leading technical discussions.
• Experience mentoring developers and conducting technical/code reviews.
• Ability to work independently and effectively in a fully remote environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience with decoupled/headless CMS architectures (e.g., Next.js, Gatsby with Drupal or WordPress).
• Experience with WordPress or Drupal migrations and upgrades.
• Experience with Acquia, Pantheon, WP Engine, or similar managed hosting platforms.
• Experience with React or other modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Experience with Cloudflare, CDN, object caching, or other web performance technologies.
• Experience contributing to proposals, technical discovery, solution architecture, or pre-sales activities

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