Content Management System Technical Lead, Forge & OpenText Migration, Credit Unions

Role summary

The Canadian-based 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.

Ideal background

  • 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.
Compensation: $80/h-$100/h depending on skill set and expertise.
 
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