Headless CMS Solutions Architect

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Headless CMS Solutions Architect based in Canada. This is a senior, client-facing opportunity focused on designing modern, scalable digital content platforms using headless and composable CMS technologies. You will lead discovery engagements, translate business and editorial needs into technical solutions, and guide clients through technology evaluation and architecture decisions. The role combines content strategy, cloud architecture, systems integration, development considerations, security, and enterprise digital transformation. You will work across platforms including Storyblok, Sanity, Contentful, and Strapi, objectively assessing their capabilities against specific client requirements. The position also requires a strong understanding of AWS environments and how CMS platforms integrate with cloud-based applications and infrastructure. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and communicate architectural recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. This role is well suited to an experienced architect or consultant who enjoys solving complex digital-content challenges and shaping practical implementation roadmaps. Accountabilities - Lead client discovery workshops, stakeholder interviews, and consulting engagements to understand business, editorial, technical, integration, security, and content requirements. - Gather, analyze, and document current-state requirements and translate them into scalable future-state digital platform architectures. - Evaluate headless CMS platforms and objectively recommend solutions based on client needs, technical constraints, scalability, and long-term maintainability. - Design scalable content models, schemas, reusable components, taxonomies, metadata structures, and composable content architectures. - Define editorial workflows, approval processes, role-based permissions, localization strategies, and publishing processes.

- Design integrations between CMS platforms and enterprise applications, services, APIs, and other digital systems. - Develop architectures for multilingual content, accessibility, technical SEO, search, content governance, and modern web standards. - Design CMS migration strategies for legacy platforms such as Drupal, WordPress, Sitecore, and custom-built systems. - Assess how headless CMS solutions should integrate with AWS-based applications and infrastructure, including services such as S3, CloudFront, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, Cognito, IAM, Route 53, WAF, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, and EventBridge. - Collaborate closely with front-end, cloud, DevOps, security, UX, and development teams to ensure architectural decisions can be implemented effectively. - Produce architecture diagrams, technology recommendations, implementation roadmaps, technical documentation, and other solution-design materials. - Present architectural recommendations clearly to executives, business stakeholders, content teams, IT departments, and developers. - Identify technical risks, dependencies, and potential scalability challenges throughout discovery and solution design. - Challenge requirements constructively when simpler, more scalable, or more maintainable approaches are appropriate. - Support implementation planning and ensure proposed solutions align with business objectives and technical realities. Requirements: - Significant professional experience working with headless CMS and composable digital-platform architectures . - Strong hands-on experience with at least two of Storyblok, Sanity, Contentful, or Strapi , with familiarity across the broader platform landscape preferred. - Practical experience with Storyblok features such as Visual Editor, components, workflows, localization, roles and permissions, Content Delivery API, and Management API.